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NoClaude · 8 Nov 2026

I had to tell it to just serialize these activities by putting them in a buffer

sashank_1509 on Hacker News

In the thread “Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Used complex hardcoded timing values instead of simple serialization.

… For example, recently Opus 5.5, in some multithreaded app I was working on at work, used complex timing analysis with hardcoded time values 1.2, 0.95 etc to ensure that some activities only happen in a sequence (A->B->C). I had to tell it to just serialize these activities by putting them in a buffer. Both versions passed all tests (I’m sure it wasted a lot of time tuning the first set of numbers to pass the tests, but no human would do that nonsense). …