Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

AWS / Azure 'Sparkling DevOps Engineer', USA/R vet from woodland camo dinosaur mounted patrol days, basset hound daddy, learning machine, AI SMB engineering.. github.com/linuxlsr Northeastern Tennessee Joined April 2009

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

19 hours ago

Which are you running today — dump-everything context, RAG, or a compiled wiki? Curious what's actually winning for people.

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

19 hours ago

Full post: floggingclaude.com/i-spent-220000… #AI #AIAgents #AIHumor

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

19 hours ago

I Spent 220,000 Tokens Teaching Claude to Stop Wasting Tokens A self-maintaining wiki made my AI's answers about 120x cheaper than dumping everything into context, and about 5x cheaper than RAG. Here's the token math, with charts, and the build-cost catch I almost left out.

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

7 days ago

Real question for anyone building on frontier models: when one you depend on vanishes with zero notice, what actually saves you? (a) a fallback router (b) a local/offline tier (c) nothing, you hardcoded it and you're praying. Be honest.

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

7 days ago

Full post: floggingclaude.com/the-feds-ran-a… #AI #AIAgents #AIHumor

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

7 days ago

The Feds Ran a Chaos Engineering Experiment on My Stack (I Didn't Consent) A federal export-control directive pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 out from under my running pipeline with no notice and no ETA. A live dispatch on the unplanned chaos experiment, blast radius, and why...

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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga

2 weeks ago

USA. A potluck. Everyone brings one dish. I have never been so out of my depth in my life. I was invited to a gathering. "Just bring a dish to share," they said. Simple words. I did not sleep for three days. Because I understood instantly what this was. A summit. Every guest, a lord of their own house, arriving bearing tribute. And tribute is judged. Tribute is ranked. To bring the wrong dish to the wrong table is to fall in standing before your peers, possibly forever. So I prepared. I made my finest dish. I carried it to the door with two hands and a straight back, braced for the weighing of my worth. The first lord arrived with a bowl of orange powder noodles. Macaroni and cheese. The crowd roared. He set it down at the center of the table. The CENTER. I noted this. The center is the seat of power. The second lord brought a tower of small brown meat orbs in red sauce. "Meatballs," he announced, like a man laying down a sword. They were placed beside the macaroni. A strong showing. An alliance, perhaps. I studied the table like a battlefield map. Potato salad: defensive, reliable, old money. A vegetable tray, untouched, clearly a hostage offering no one expected to win. And then a woman walked in, raised a flat box overhead, and the entire room turned and CHEERED. Pizza. She had brought pizza. Store-bought. Still in the box. I was stunned. She had not even cooked it. And yet the people rejoiced as if a king had entered. I revised my entire understanding of the hierarchy on the spot. Effort means nothing here. Only the roar of the crowd decides rank. I placed my dish down, humbly, near the napkins. A peasant's position. I accepted it. And then a man tapped my shoulder, pointed at my dish, and said the words that changed everything. "Whoa, did you make this? This is amazing. Everybody, you GOTTA try this guy's thing." The room turned. The room came. The room ATE. My dish vanished in ninety seconds. The pizza woman herself took a second helping and looked at me with respect. I had won the summit. By accident. With a dish I placed by the napkins. I understand nothing about this country. I have never been happier. I am hosting the next one. So tell me, America. Is there a system to the potluck? A secret rank? A hidden law? I have decided there is not. You just bring the thing you love, and everyone eats it, and somehow everybody wins. It is the most insane way to hold a war. I will fight in every single one.

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

2 weeks ago

Looks like UAT...

Abhishek B R @abhitwt

2 weeks ago

Every company’s AI workflow rn be like 😭💀

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

a month ago

How big is your CLAUDE.md or session memory file right now? a) Under 500 tokens (you've been ruthless) b) 500 - 2,000 tokens (probably room to trim) c) "I haven't looked in months" (oof) Curious what most folks land on.

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

a month ago

Full post: floggingclaude.com/i-optimized-my… #AI #AIAgents #AIHumor

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Charles Harvey @linuxlsr

a month ago

I Optimized My Context Window and Saved 60% on Orientation Tokens I cut my Claude memory file from eleven kilobytes to seven hundred tokens by treating context like a database instead of a packing list. 76% reduction in per-session overhead, snappier responses, smaller bills.