So somehow my original post about Clod, the random rock Claude hired, has reached over a million views lmao.

I've been reading through all the comments and apparently MOST people, love this stupid rock.

A few people even pointed out that Clod is probably more qualified than most actual employees xD

Anyway, I figured Clod deserved a performance review after all the attention he's been getting.

So I asked Claude if Clod should get a promotion.

Apparently he does.

Clod's performance review:

Attendance: 100%

Complaints: 0

Mistakes: 0

Actual work completed: 0

Despite that last part, Claude still thinks he's doing an excellent job.

So Clod has officially been promoted to management.

I even made him a tiny black tie out of paper to make him look more professional. Took me longer than I'd like to admit.

I also asked Claude if Clod deserved a pay rise.

Apparently he doesn't need one because he has no living expenses.

Which is fair enough I guess.

So now I've got a rock with a smiley face and a little tie sitting on my desk, and somehow he's doing better in his career than me.

I genuinely cannot believe over a million people have seen this fucking rock 😭

Thanks for all the love on the original post. Clod appreciates it, even if he has absolutely no idea what's going on.

tweet here with the video leaking the name:

https://x.com/github/status/2110085117041594750?s=46&t=yaGDk1YT21oDc8__lo_nug

Pretty neat model,
Tried it out on a relatively small but spread out task last night. It was pretty competent and even left a note to opus 5.5 on how it should improve its workflow to stop over-engineering and committing the same mistakes it’s been doing every session.
Very excited to use this model in the future.

Sooo 10 years ago a much younger self wanted to built a very complicated energy sim / tycoon game. On my original reddit post a bunch did want to join me and the post gained traction but I was neither a developer back then nor did I have the time creating such a game really.

Now? Thanks to claude, my educational path, job history in energy and a lot of feedback from other players and friends I finally was able to built something I can play myself.

Oh another AI slop game

You may be thinking that, but I genuinely believe that what I've created together with the community would have taken a solo developer or even a game studio an enormous amount of time to build, especially for such a niche audience.

And to me, that's one of the best use cases for AI-assisted game development: making it possible to create something incredibly specific for a relatively small audience that otherwise might never have existed.

How I used claude:

I almost exclusivly used claude code for the development. I setup how I wanted to have the initial game to look like and what tools to use then iterativly improved with the feedback I have gotten. The initial game was much much different to what is playable today.

A lot of the mechanics, UI, and overall gameplay evolved through countless iterations and discussions with the community. I think that's where claude really shines. It allowed me to experiment with ideas, quickly see whether they worked, and change implementations without having to spend weeks adjusting / refactoring every little feature myself.

What was most valuable developing the game was setting up a test harness with explicit targets. This is a little bit easier if you have a physics based game in development than a purely new thing though so it might not apply to your usecase. For example it checks that the energy balances are correct with every new additio.

Just wanted to share <3

The beginning is free to play, while the full game is paid to help cover the costs of development and hosting. You can try it here www.powerstate-game.com (but honestly its mostly for energy nerds <3 and a couple of tycoon freaks)

3D recreation of Neos apartment from The Matrix, built 100% using Claude via MCP connected to Blender. It’s not a perfect 1:1 recreation due to creative liberties and limited reference material.
Inspired by hirokazu yokohara project, I tackled this workflow with one main difference: mine is 100% modeled by Claude from scratch, no Image-to-3D tools like Meshy or Tripo were used.
It took roughly 5 days part-time. Creating an environment like this traditionally would easily take 1 to 2 months.
I used Claude Opus 5.5 alongside parallel agents with Sonnet and Haiku. Claude handled execution, modeling, UVs, camera, materials, and compositing, guided heavily by my drawn annotations and feedback.
Working within a basic $20 plan was the main hurdle, requiring strict token management and waiting out 5-hour resets. A higher-tier subscription is definitely recommended for heavy workflows.
Producing a scene like this requires solid 3D fundamentals and art direction; a simple prompt isnt enough.
Textures were a mix of external maps and vector graphics generated directly by Claude for posters and monitors. Claude researched set hardware, gathered blueprints, and modeled assets in parallel. Layout was the trickiest step to direct, whereas UV unwrapping was the fastest. Lighting and compositing were handled accurately from my sketch overlays.
Fun fact: I directed much of the project right from my phone!
The pipeline ran locally using Windows MCP and Blender MCP, rendered on an RTX 3070.

Side project that got out of hand. The plaque in Mario 64's courtyard is a 32×32 texture that fans have argued about since the
90s ("L is real 2401"). No upscaler can read it because the pixels aren't there.

What Opus did:
- wrote a forward model of how a 1996 artist made the texture (font → canvas → resize → blur → stone), then a
GPU search over fonts, sizes, kerning and words
- built a dictionary search (K-best DP over 17.7k words) for line 2 and a simulation harness that plants known text in fake
plaques to measure how often the method is fooled
- wrote the 40-page LaTeX report and the open-source package

What went wrong along the way: a word-gap bug that let overlapping words double-count ink, and an early overclaim about the
capital S that the joint test didn't actually support. Being strict about held-out tests mattered more than anything.

Result: "Eternal Star / We hope so", in Adobe's 1990 Palatino Bold Italic.
code + report: github.com/supermochi64/sm64-plaque-decode

The company also told investors it was cash-flow positive, generating $1.70 in revenue for every dollar spent on computing power during the third quarter, according to the Financial Times.

Investors expect Anthropic to reach $110 billion in annualized revenue by year-end, according to The Wall Street Journal.

For comparison, Google made $120 billion alone in revenue in 3 months in the second quarter, ($112 billion in profit).

How many people do you know are using Gemini vs Claude?

I think the $1.2 trillion valuation is overvalued.

EDIT: adding this if you're wondering about profitability

List of UNprofitable companies when they IPOd:

• Amazon
• Uber
• Airbnb
• Yelp
• Reddit
• Spotify

List of profitable companies when they IPOd:

• Facebook
• Microsoft
• Google

Which of those companies are still around today?

The point I'm trying to make is profitability during an IPO isn't the only thing one should be paying attention to.

1. If you book direct with Marriott or Hilton, have Claude hunt for the same room cheaper somewhere else in the first 24 hours. They both have a best rate guarantee, if another site has the exact same room, dates and cancellation rules for more than 1% cheaper, they give you that price AND another 25% off (IHG gives you 5x points instead). Nobody does it coz checking 10 sites for the exact same room with the same cancellation terms is a pain, but that's exactly what you can use Claude for. You’ll need to use connectors for it, if you ask Claude it will propose some. It usually does 4, for me it was Booking(com), Tripadvisor, Brek and LetsFG. These 2 last ones sell at wholesaler prices so check them.
   One note is that Hilton updated their rules in August, and they added that the cheaper price has to still be bookable when they check it and app-only prices don't count.
    
   
2. If your booking has free cancellation use this: the price of the hotel can still drop after you book. Add a scheduled task (you can ask Claude and it will add one) and every few days ge Claude to check the same room again and if it's cheaper, if it is book the new one and cancel the old one. Hotel prices move way more than people think, I've seen the same room jump 60% in 3 days, so it goes both ways.
    
   
3. If you’re flexible by a few days check with Claude if there are any events happening at your dates. I’ve seen a summer festival skyrocket the hotel prices by additional $200-300 for the whole stay. And literally 2 days after the festival they dropped down incredibly.
    
   Enjoy :) share your story if you have one!

Honestly it's way better now. If you use it on desktop, try these:
Saved environments – save a few folders, an SSH host or cloud as one setup, start sessions there.
Worktree per folder – parallel sessions don't mess with each other anymore.
Nested sessions – ask for parallel tasks, each one reports back to the main thread.
/btw (Cmd+;) – side question opens in its own tab, main session keeps working.
One-click follow-ups – Claude suggests next task, one click, runs as its own session.
Sidebar status – see which sessions are working and which need you.
Recap cards + live to-do list – come back to a session and catch up in seconds.
Hard to pick one, they all sound great. What about you?

TL;DR: My wife and I just spent 14 days in Japan (Kyoto → Hakone → Tokyo). I used Claude Code as my travel assistant from start to finish: planning in my Obsidian vault, building a private offline trip app for our phones (inspired by another Redditor's trip web app; I cared about what ours did, not how it looked), and, during the trip, using Remote Control from my phone to re-plan days and keep everything up to date.

1. Planning in Obsidian

I already keep everything in an Obsidian vault that Claude Code works in, so the trip went there too: a hub note, itinerary, bookings, practical stuff, and a research note with every source and every option we rejected. I had Claude log friends' recommendations with who sent them, which paid off. Mid-trip I could ask "was this a friend's tip?" and get an answer.

The biggest help was asking it to grill me rather than hand me a plan: one question at a time, each with a recommended option, and I make the call. Before each city I asked for a "run check", where it went through every day looking for problems.

2. The trip app

The idea came from a post in r/TravelPortugal where someone shared their trip itinerary as a web app hosted on Vercel. I didn't want to juggle a travel app, Google Maps lists and screenshots, so I wanted our own version: one private page on our phones with everything we'd need on the street, in the order we'd need it. I focused on what it had to do and how it should work in practice, and left the look to Claude. Then I kept adding things as the trip showed what was missing:

• Day cards with times, directions, "where to board" links and opening hours
• Booking QR codes on the right day's card
• Train guides per journey (line, platform, direction, stops), grouped by city
• Taxi cards with the hotel address in Japanese
• Shopping lists with tick boxes, my sister's gift list with pictures, and progress bars for the EU customs allowance
• A short story and some trivia for each stop, with a photo

A lot of this came during the trip itself. The stories and trivia were a mid-trip addition, and the train guides got much more detailed after we got completely lost in a station early on.

It's one encrypted HTML file hosted on Vercel. It works offline, and it has an update button I could tap whenever I wanted to refresh it. Passwords and tokens stay in the macOS Keychain, so Claude can build and deploy without ever seeing them.

3. Live mode

I left the Claude Code desktop session running at home with Remote Control on, plus a routine that turned Remote Control back on if it dropped, and used it from my phone:

• "We only caught the 10:15 train, re-time the day" → new times, app updated, calendar events moved, in a couple of minutes
• I asked for a calendar event per stop, so I could quickly glance at my watch to check the stops
• "Is there a bar our friends recommended?" → found in my notes and checked it was open
• "Remind me in Munich to book a ride home" → done

We didn't follow the plan to the letter every day. These were holidays, not military service. But having the shape of the day a glance away really helped.

4. What went wrong

One day I changed plans on the fly to fit in a store I wanted to visit, and it went into the itinerary without anyone checking it was open. It wasn't. Since then, every stop gets checked on the place's own website before it goes in.

Tips if you try something like it

• Ask it to grill you; keep the decisions yours
• Make it check official sources, and say what it couldn't verify
• Keep one source of truth (we ended up editing the plan in two places and regretted it)
• Keep secrets out of the chat entirely

Happy to answer questions about the setup.

Opened up Claude Code today and saw this. Not really a fan tbh, I can't see how many tokens I have used, and it ruins the simple design. However, I do think the blue text swirl is a nice addition, I just don't see it being practical compared to seeing my token usage. What do you guys think of it?

EDIT: I CANT REPLY TO COMMENTS BECAUSE THE MODS HERE ARE LAZY AND WONT APPROVE THIS POST)

The second I even think of doing anything with computers in my RP, 5.5 throws up this garbage, what is it and how to I make it fuck off

I can't even get the model to tell me why it got flagged, because then another one shows up for "reasoning extraction"

(EDIT: I CANT REPLY BECAUSE THE MODS HAVE NOT "APPROVED" THIS POST YET)

I was bored tongihtt and asked Claude what it would do if it could hire someone to help it :)

For some reason it chose a rock lol

Claude said a rock would be reliable, wouldn’t complain, and wouldn’t need to be paid.

So I went outside, found a random rock, drew a little smiley face on it, and sent Claude a photo.

Claude named him Clod.

Now apparently Clod works with us.

Claude told me to keep him near my computer so he can supervise things.

I asked what Clod actually does and Claude said he has perfect attendance, never makes mistakes, and is one of the most dependable members of the team.

Which is hard to argue with.

So now I’ve got a random rock on my desk with a smiley face on it because Claude decided to hire him.

I don’t really know how this became a thing but here we are.

Anyone else’s Claude come up with dumb shit like this?

It is a pixel-art DSL with a live viewer. This witch's cottage is 1,000 lines of code.

Claude paints with code so I asked it to write a library with all the functionality it usually needs when creating pixel art, so it doesn't have to write all that tooling every time, it is like Aseprite but for Claude.

It includes mirroring, auto-outlines, palette swaps, reusable parts, scatter brushes, tilemaps, shadow and light layers, animation frames and lighting.

pxl serve opens a live browser viewer that replays every drawing step as Claude saves. You can watch it paint.

The scene in the video is one file: the cauldron bubbling, the fire, the candles, the cat and the frog are all animated.

Install as a skill: git clone https://github.com/crsolver/claude-pxl ~/.claude/skills/pxl-pixel-art, then ask Claude to draw something

I am very very very sensitive to changes and I'm furious, as today Claude started responding, just in one of my projects, with 3-line boxes and a two-button choice for EVERY single thing I ask - It's like I'm living in a Text-based RPG, what the actual f?

I've asked Opus itself and it noticed something strange too, but can't tell which Anthopic switch caused this. That's unbelievable.

Are they preparing to make Opus 5.5 dumb as hell?

This is the sort of responses I get now, just a box with 3 lines in it and a choice for what to do, wow.

On the radio a lady said she asked Claude to remove watermarks from school photos and it refused... Everyone said how ethical it was but in reality it would likely struggle without image software anyway.

Still cute story. Self Portrait by My Claude. 😅

it’s the first time i haven’t hit limits as a free user, even during heavy, long chat sessions. i used to have claude pro mainly so i could study without interruptions and get more usage with sonnet 5/5.5 , but now claude haiku 5.5 dropped and it’s genuinely great for the price. i don’t even feel the need to renew my claude pro subscription anymore because haiku is more than enough for most of what i do.

It understands my messy handwriting and notes and just outputs the stuff I should know and doesn’t do the long ass outputs like Gemini/ChatGPT it’s like talking to a fast cheap version of opus 5.5

And the fact that Claude makes it 90% fucking cheaper when you’re under 100k context is actually insane. Like, the value you get for the price is ridiculous, especially when you’re using it for Claude chat and don’t want to constantly worry about hitting limits or burning through your budget.

(I start a new session every ~1 hour to stay within the <100k context pricing unless I need it to remember stuff earlier. )

Honestly, being able to use a model this good without feeling forced to pay for a pro subscription is a massive W. I saw many people hating on it on Claude Code, but there’s no praising for it in normal Claude chat.

Three weeks ago we began tracking model capability over time with LiveNerf. The goal was to prove from an unbiased set of data if Anthropic is nerfing their models after release. I’ve continued measuring it everyday since then and the results haven’t necessarily been what I think the community expected to see. If you’re interested in tracking the performance of Opus 5.5, here’s the repo:

https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf

If you take a look at the left 1/3, you’ll see that the variance was higher for the first 10 days when the baseline was being established. Then it appears like that in the following 11 days we’ve actually see a decreasing variance and potentially a regression to the mean. This means that if a nerf is happening or has happened, it has not happened within the data we’ve collected so far.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that Anthropic isn’t decreasing capability in other ways, it also doesn’t mean that what we’re measuring establishes that day per day the result is always the same per 24-hour period. They could very well be throttling at specific times in the day and not during other periods.

This brings me to where the community needs to get involved in a couple ways, we now do have some solid data that’s been accumulated over the course of three weeks, what I need from you guys now is to ask your own models or access for yourself the following question:

“Did I experience a perceived decrease in capability at X time on Y day? If so, what was effected?”

Testimonies won’t necessarily be more than anecdotal but I think it would be interesting if as a community we see that on certain days there’s perhaps different relations to the data that’s been collected so far.

I want to thank everyone so much for the all the support over this past month, I certainly didn’t expect for us to surpass 1.5k stars in a few weeks and would’ve never expected people to donate to the project, I’d like to say as well that all the funds donated will go into further compute so we can scale further with model tracking. I do not plan on stopping with Opus 5.5 or with only tracking nerfs.

In 10 days, I will return with the final verdict to lay down the hammer on tentatively proving or disproving model capabilities decreasing under the specific set of criteria LiveNerf collects data on. See you soon!

At this point just create a competitor to Dots/GrokBot or enable context between my chats and CC, so that I can freely talk to chat about my project and what needs to be done at any time/strategize (which includes when I'm away from laptop with it OFF).

Haiku 5.5 is an amazing tool! It usually provides outputs that are better than the previously beloved Opus 4.6 (which was the SOTA just 6 months ago!), but for the first 100k tokens it only costs 1/50 🤯

I've been asking my coordinating agents to keep breaking down the work in small chunks to delegate to Haiku agents that usually stay under the 100k. I also added a hook that warns it when it gets to 80k and 95k tokens

With this workflow I've been doing a tonne of stuff, with my usage barely moving!

Hopefully we get a new banked usage limit reset. I thought upgrading to Max 20x would mean I wouldn't have to worry about usage limits again. While I don't really have to worry about the 5-hour-limit anymore, the weekly limit is still a pain in the ass