Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games

philb2 said:
With Adobe, I used to pay ~ $150 for purchasing a version upgrade. Now I pay $120 a year for a subscription. Big difference. Not.
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Without knowing how often you used to buy a new version it's hard to tell which is the better value to you. I used to need full Acrobat because we'd produce some PDFs a few times a year that needed some features you don't see in, say, the Microsoft print to PDF printer driver. But we went years without upgrading because the version we had did everything we needed. So for us, $120/year would be a bad deal (depending on what full Acrobat would've cost in that time frame, of course. And I don't know that that amount was.)

Personally I find myself more and more annoyed with all this crap that sucks up my attention. Mostly it's stuff like 3x-weekly ads from the grocery store, but the constant update drumbeat is getting to where it annoys me too. Lately I've been noticing that on my Mint box, literally nearly every day I get a popup from the software manager telling me somewhere between 1 and 10 packages need updating. Sure it's not a lot of time in any given instance, but I get tired of being interrupted every day.
 
REA tools, rewriting asm to C++, and general work around my decompilation project still works well on my claude subscription. I have entire toolchain and harness for rewriting functions in a 32-binary, which slowly grows into 32/64-bit compatible C++ code, compiled and attached dynamically to the old exe as DLL. Work in progress. I have not been affected by recent claude code nerf, just yet.
I have not updated claude code to 2.1.314. This is the version which contains this nerf it seems, it's not in the changelogs, but people have identified it.
 
Nytegard said:
Right now most are going the vibe coding route. I don't think this is going to be beneficial in the end. I'm seeing this more and more in that people don't understand nor have any clue what's going on any more, even the senior developers.

If I had my way, which obviously I don't, I think more of a hybrid approach would be better. Write the code manually, use the LLM to find issues with it.

Because people are saying how much more productive it makes them.

Yet, when you think about it, when you write the code manually, where is the vast majority of your time in programming spent? Not really writing the code but debugging the code you wrote. If I know what I'm trying to accomplish, and the LLM points out I have a logic error somewhere, that doesn't detract from my understanding of the code. If I run into a situation where the LLM hallucinates and just can't solve the problem, I still have knowledge of the code and know where to look.

This also works well for training junior developers. Because they have code ownership, they're improving. And when gcc throws out 10000 warnings from a mistake in their header code with templates, the only real danger is that they're not going to be as careful in their first pass before they attempt compiling.

While this isn't as fast as fully vibe coding, it shaves off 50-60% of development time with few long-term consequences. Vs with the vibe coding, where once it starts going wrong, it goes wrong in spectacular fashion.
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+1 to what you wrote. It sounds eminently sensible, and is long-term viable. However, I won't bet two wooden nickels that many companies will embrace this approach. Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but in my long product management career, both startups and established companies, the senior management is usually a bunch of boneheads.
 
1_rick said:
Without knowing how often you used to buy a new version it's hard to tell which is the better value to you. I used to need full Acrobat because we'd produce some PDFs a few times a year that needed some features you don't see in, say, the Microsoft print to PDF printer driver. But we went years without upgrading because the version we had did everything we needed. So for us, $120/year would be a bad deal (depending on what full Acrobat would've cost in that time frame, of course. And I don't know that that amount was.)

Personally I find myself more and more annoyed with all this crap that sucks up my attention. Mostly it's stuff like 3x-weekly ads from the grocery store, but the constant update drumbeat is getting to where it annoys me too. Lately I've been noticing that on my Mint box, literally nearly every day I get a popup from the software manager telling me somewhere between 1 and 10 packages need updating. Sure it's not a lot of time in any given instance, but I get tired of being interrupted every day.
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So I'm still a Windows guy and about a year ago I discovered UniGetUI, which is a GUI for winget (and other repositories, plus the MS Store). It auto installs and then auto updates. Automagically. Game changer.
 
1_rick said:
Linux. So I'm this case, my update manager requires my password for sudo to apply many updates, so it's not ignorable.
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And UnigetUI displays a list of software to update, but you must click on a box to do the updates. And each update can be deselected.
 
philb2 said:
And UnigetUI displays a list of software to update, but you must click on a box to do the updates. And each update can be deselected.
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Same here.

I don't object to updates, even non automatic ones. I'm tired of having to manually approve them every damn day.

It's not just them, too. It's all the garbage that wants my attention all the time.
 
1_rick said:
Same here.

I don't object to updates, even non automatic ones. I'm tired of having to manually approve them every damn day.

It's not just them, too. It's all the garbage that wants my attention all the time.
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That's what I like about UniGetUI. It can be a two-click solution, then sit back and watch.
 
philb2 said:
So I have to ask. Why all this hating on Adobe? For lots of people, their products are genuinely useful. Think Acrobat, what used to be the "Creative Suite." Much more useful than say Facebook, Tiktok and their ilk.
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Because Adobe makes buggy software that it is poorly optimized on Windows that also charges insane prices while also charging you if you leave them. Remember that Adobe bought Macromedia and killed web browser based flash animation. Harmony the alternative to Flash has also switched to a subscription model.

View: https://youtu.be/ggoEoBCpMAs?si=HmpIZbBptSguf5Xa
 
philb2 said:
That's what I like about UniGetUI. It can be a two-click solution, then sit back and watch.
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Well, on this machine my password is just a space, so it's like 2 clicks and a space, but quite honestly if i could just have it run automatically without intervention (or maybe with just one "go" click) without also normally being logged in as root, I'd probably do that.

I just got my second batch of updates today on it.
 
1_rick said:
Well, on this machine my password is just a space, so it's like 2 clicks and a space, but quite honestly if i could just have it run automatically without intervention (or maybe with just one "go" click) without also normally being logged in as root, I'd probably do that.

I just got my second batch of updates today on it.
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As the French say <<chacun a son gout>>
 
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