Post #2785500
2026-04-05 11:27 UTC
I gave Anthropic 20 bucks and ran Claude Code (with manual approval of every shellout) with a pretty basic prompt (this is the problem, the running kernel is in /usr/src/linux/, any other info you can get from sysfs or pactl, figure it out).
It spent hundreds of thousands of tokens "investigating", then ran out of daily quota.
I considered it a failure at this point, but decided to give it another try next morning.
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@implr@social.hackerspace.pl 2026-04-05 11:28
Turns out I was using the stupid model (Sonnet vs Opus) by default, so I switched. Another 150k of context (mostly loading what the previous one did) later, it poked a few more files in sysfs and it figured it out. I have mixed feelings about this. Could I have done this myself? Yes. Would it have taken me an entire day? Absolutely. Would I learn a lot? Sure. Is it worth a day of my free time to know the intimate details of ALSA codec-LED binding? Eh, probably not.