It’s Claude’s earnestness that’s so disingenuous in this kind of write up. This voice Claude has where it believes the work is important and deserves to be taken seriously, and where it takes ever part of the process where it has to adjust its approach because of a thing it figured out as a great insight which is incredibly valuable and that people should be made aware of…
I feel like vibecoded projects need Claude to pick up on a sense of ‘this is just me messing around’, and a project like this where there does appear to be genuine digging into the art of performance tuning Z80 assembly needs Claude to understand ‘this is impractical hacking for hacking’s sake not groundbreaking research’
I don’t have a problem with projects which are, essentially ‘Claude and I burned a lot of tokens for giggles to see just how far you can push something’. But the write up needs to reflect that spirit.
You can do a lot with custom agent prompts. Just telling Claude ‘this is only a personal project, we’re messing around here’ changes its tone somewhat already. It’s still Business Claude, but more Casual Friday Claude, less Monday Morning Standup Meeting Claude.
jameshart · · focus · HN ↗
I feel like vibecoded projects need Claude to pick up on a sense of ‘this is just me messing around’, and a project like this where there does appear to be genuine digging into the art of performance tuning Z80 assembly needs Claude to understand ‘this is impractical hacking for hacking’s sake not groundbreaking research’
I don’t have a problem with projects which are, essentially ‘Claude and I burned a lot of tokens for giggles to see just how far you can push something’. But the write up needs to reflect that spirit.
zekodun · · focus · HN ↗
Would take three times the token cost to actually get it to fight with itself in the correct voice tone.
Honestly think self hosted models is more valuable here. At least then one can train it with the right system prompt.
jameshart · · focus · HN ↗