[HN Gopher] Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits
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Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits
Author : mattwiese
Score : 123 points
Date : 2025-08-11 01:32 UTC (21 hours ago)
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| rappatic wrote:
| If Claude usage limits are this important to your life, it seems
| a little smarter to just bite the Claude Max bullet. Isn't an
| ordinary sleep schedule easily worth $180/month difference?
| mattwiese wrote:
| It sure is, but this has been a fun experiment because I want
| to sail solo in the future.
|
| If I can't vibe code while sleep deprived, I sure as heck won't
| be able to react to an AIS alert and change course in the
| middle of the night!
| astral_drama wrote:
| You do your best and let the sea take of the rest.
|
| Anyhow, vibe coding is pretty low stakes compared to the joys
| and terrors you'll find out at sea.
|
| Bon voyage!
| Ifkaluva wrote:
| For a landlubber like me, could you say something about
| what kind of joys might be possible expected?
|
| As a landlubber, the terrors are quite easy to imagine.
| cricalix wrote:
| In no particular order:
|
| Marine mammals
|
| Sunsets with no land in sight. Sunsets framing the land.
| Sunrises with no land in sight. Sunrises framing the
| land. Thunder and lightning rolling up one side of an
| island in the distance, putting on a show.
|
| Dark skies and the stars.
|
| The peace and tranquility of quiet places with just
| nature and you. Until the sod over the hill turns on
| their generator.
|
| Fresh fish.
|
| The feel of sea spray, wind in the ears, the connection
| to your boat, knowing if things are right just by the
| feel and sound.
|
| And that's just from doing non-ocean-crossing sailing.
| schaefer wrote:
| Do you know that big's backyard ultra exists? Even more ways
| to get your sleep deprived fun.
| serf wrote:
| counterpoint :
|
| I had a max x20 account for the past three months and hit
| limits just about every period that fell within working hours.
|
| I finally cancelled it two days ago due to overspending-
| guilt/token-grinding guilt, and they shorted me my last day due
| to an error on their side regarding time zones.
|
| It's really _so_ dependent on your workloads. Conversations
| around token expenditure are wildly different from individual
| to individual,and workload to workload.
|
| Dealing with codebases that _require_ contextual reading due to
| a lack of training corpus (R /Go/Common Lisp, among others..)
| _EAT_ context and tokens for breakfast.
| f137 wrote:
| How many people would click on a "Using multiply Claude
| accounts to get more code" post?
| johnfn wrote:
| This article is definitely just a joke. Right? Haha? It's a
| joke? People definitely aren't really doing this in real life?
| Ha? ...?
| lovich wrote:
| he mentioned being inspired by 100 rabbits. i assume the
| author is a bit odd compared to most people just from that
| GuinansEyebrows wrote:
| aesthetically, maybe. but i can't help think that someone
| who claims 100rabbits as an influence but molds their life
| around a paid service that burns a lot of joules in order
| to avoid getting closer to the metal might have missed some
| of the philosophical points.
| lovich wrote:
| I agree, but I was just pointing out that this author has
| the signs indicating that they are someone who makes some
| unusual decisions in life. Regardless of if they match
| the ethos they are inspired by
| rgmerk wrote:
| Um...is this satire?
| PlunderBunny wrote:
| My thoughts exactly.
| max-m wrote:
| At this point I can't even tell reality from satire anymore.
| mattwiese wrote:
| At the risk of derailing the thread, your comment is a poignant
| reminder of Baudrillard's simulacra & simulation.
|
| Also, not satire... although written with a healthy dose of
| _token_ -in-cheek :]
| BigJono wrote:
| The thread before with someone flogging off their educational
| book they wrote "with Claude in an afternoon", as if anyone
| would benefit from investing days or weeks of learning effort
| into consuming something the author couldn't be fucked spending
| even a single day on, that one was well crafted satire, right?
|
| ...right?
| encom wrote:
| I wish I could have a HN front page without AI (or "$foo
| rewrite in Rust"). I'm not an anti-AI luddite, but it's just
| way too much at this point. Surely there are other interesting
| hackery topics we could talk about.
| BallsInIt wrote:
| Flag them all and hope more do the same.
| sitkack wrote:
| What an amazingly selfish behavior. Just hide them. What
| you are doing is censoring hn in support of whatever you
| want the hive mind to discuss as opposed to finding your
| tribes hyperplane.
|
| Please colonize somewhere else.
| bakugo wrote:
| Is it really censorship when 90% of AI related posts are
| just not-so-thinly-veiled advertisements with zero
| potential for meaningful discussion beyond "yes I agree
| fellow independent user, I also love Claude Code(tm) from
| Anthropic(r) and it has 1000x'd my productivity, their
| $5000/mo plan is a steal and everyone should buy it!"
| joshstrange wrote:
| > Is it really censorship when 90% of AI related posts
| are just not-so-thinly-veiled advertisements with zero
| potential for meaningful discussion beyond "yes I agree
| fellow independent user, I also love Claude Code(tm) from
| Anthropic(r) and it has 1000x'd my productivity, their
| $5000/mo plan is a steal and everyone should buy it!"
|
| I'm far from sold on vibe-coding or heavy-ai-assist
| (whatever you want to call it) but I find these "How
| developers use Claude Code" blog posts fascinating and
| not for a second do I think they are paid ads.
|
| Do you really think the blog posts shared here on HN
| talking about how people are using Claude (among other
| tools) are all (or mostly) paid ads?
| sneak wrote:
| HN is available as RSS and you or I could vibe code up a
| filtering proxy in ten minutes, and you could use that in
| your feed reader. It's easier to solve the problem than to
| complain about it.
|
| Add another 2 minutes and you could have the list of keywords
| to filter as a configurable url parameter, so you can amend
| it easily when the next technology you want to hate comes
| along.
| petesergeant wrote:
| Ironically this would be pretty easy to train an AI to do
| with Greasemonkey
| jmuguy wrote:
| At least this hype cycle seems to be accelerating. Its always
| darkest before the light. So hopefully the day after every
| single front page link is something AI related, there won't
| be any. But that might be because the earth has exploded and
| not because the bubble finally burst.
| senectus1 wrote:
| perhaps you need to improve your sleep routine
|
| /s
|
| seriously tho.. yeah I'm a skeptical bastard in every aspect of
| my life these days. its exhausting.
| tehnub wrote:
| Not sure if it's full on satire, slightly outrageous ideas
| expressed in fanciful language for the fun of it, or the writing
| of a true believer. Fun read, good luck with the stealth B2B!
| mattwiese wrote:
| Definitely written tongue-in-cheek, but I did do this and it
| did "work" lol. Cheers!
| ltbarcly3 wrote:
| Literally the first thing I thought when I read how claude counts
| usage is "I need to set up a cron job to do one claude request
| before I wake up, so my work day is split in half on the 7 hour
| bucket times. So probably 5AM, my tokens reset at 12, then reset
| again at 7.
| MangoToupe wrote:
| You could just try and sleep.
| acedTrex wrote:
| This is satire right? It has to be
| Duanemclemore wrote:
| Ah yes, polyphasic sleep. Like the classic Seinfeld episode [0].
|
| Inspired by this, a buddy of mine tried "DaVinci Sleep" at our
| residential high school, and lasted a week before he crashed for
| 20 hours and went back to a normal schedule.
|
| Apropos of nothing, he's now a very well regarded academic - in
| an unrelated field.
|
| To be fair, computer science is famous for people rearranging
| their sleep schedule around when the compute time was available.
|
| [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Friar%27s_Club
| Sn0wCoder wrote:
| "To be fair, computer science is famous for people rearranging
| their sleep schedule around when the compute time was
| available." - Duanemclemore Interesting take, not the mind set
| I went into reading the article but the one I wish I had...
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| I experimented with polyphasic sleep for a few months. It was
| really interesting to experience time as more continuous, not
| broken up into days.
|
| I gave it up because I found it wasn't very fault tolerant. If I
| missed a bedtime even by just a few hours, or ate before trying
| to sleep, I was in a bad state for a day or two until I could get
| back on track.
| mattwiese wrote:
| > I gave it up because I found it wasn't very fault tolerant.
| If I missed a bedtime even by just a few hours, or ate before
| trying to sleep, I was in a bad state for a day or two until I
| could get back on track.
|
| That's what terrifies me about polyphasic sleep at sea. I had a
| few "cheat" days while attempting this, but of course the
| safety of myself and others didn't depend on if I hit snooze 5
| times in an hour. Claude just got lonely for a bit.
|
| It's really an interesting technique and I hope to find and
| talk with sailors who've done it. Thanks for sharing your
| experience.
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| On the bright side, those others would have good reason not
| to give you reasons to deviate from the plan.
|
| It was usually social pressure that did me in. People want to
| meet for coffee or drinks or food at a time when it wasn't
| well aligned with my nap schedule, and I started making
| compromises...
|
| I suppose something that engages you for hours could appear
| unscheduled while sailing, but it seems like most sources of
| such things could be mitigated with adequate planning, and
| they're unlikely to involve coffee or beer or birthday cake.
| hattmall wrote:
| >I suppose something that engages you for hours could
| appear unscheduled while sailing
|
| I would say, generally speaking, that comprises the bulk of
| the time. Most likely you will spend more time in
| unscheduled multi-hour long tasks than anything else over
| the course of an extended trip.
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| Well I guess that shows how much I know about sailing
| (I've done it once or twice, but never in a hurry or with
| a lot of distance between ports). Which of these cannot
| be delayed 45 minutes in order to accommodate a nap?
| hattmall wrote:
| Wind shifts, something breaks, something blows overboard,
| random water where it shouldn't be. Something is making a
| funny noise. Some alert on the radio that you didnt catch
| all of it. Odd smell. People speaking excitedly in a
| foreign language about something. Something breaks again,
| hooked a fish, approaching vessel with no signal, coast
| guard inspection, unexpected military craft telling you
| to change course. Sure there is downtime, but it's lucky
| to have it remotely scheduled.
| mareko wrote:
| I'm impressed by your determination.
|
| A while back, I had a big paper deadline a week away and knew I
| didn't have enough time to finish without sacrificing sleep.
|
| Rather than cutting my sleep short, I decided to stick with 7-8
| hours of rest and instead lengthen my wake window. I worked out a
| schedule that gave me six nights of sleep across seven days. It
| meant waking up at stranger and stranger times as the week went
| on, and getting some odd looks from my roommates when I emerged
| from my room. But in the end, it was totally worth it. I was
| waking up well-rested and ready to tackle those extra-long days.
|
| The effort paid off 100%. Not only did I make the deadline, but
| my paper was accepted as well. A year later, that same paper
| helped me get into my PhD program of choice.
|
| It's funny how these short bursts of intense effort can sometimes
| have such a big impact.
|
| Best of luck with your side hustle!
| versteegen wrote:
| I'm surprised to hear that that schedule worked well. Even if
| you woke feeling well-rested, what did you feel like towards
| the end of the day, at your normal/previous sleep time?
|
| Personally in that situation I would (and do) get plenty of
| sleep every night and then skip the final night. I find the
| fatigue from a lot of lost sleep normally doesn't hit me in
| full until the _second_ day after, and the final-day panic is
| enough to counteract the lack of sleep.
| mckn1ght wrote:
| I've tried this because I've long thought my circadian cycle
| is just a bit longer than average, where I just don't feel
| tired until late at night, and traveling westward feels great
| because I can take an extra long day. Waking up early on a
| regular schedule is hard for me generally, like, I can do it
| but I feel braindead. Eastward jet lag of 3-6 hours is awful
| if I have to do stuff in the mornings.
|
| So I tried a complete "cycle" of 28 hour days until I
| realigned with the normal day. Which happens to be the same
| thing GP did. LCM(24, 28) = 168 which is 7 days with 6
| cycles. Roughly 19 hours waking and 9 hours sleeping. I did
| let myself sleep longer instead of holding to 7-8 hours like
| GP.
|
| It definitely felt weird because my wife wasn't on the
| schedule, but I didn't feel super sleep deprived. I'm sure
| with multiple complete cycles you'd see more adverse effects,
| so it's probably best to only do this very sparingly. Maybe
| napping during the wake period could alleviate issues.
| squidbeak wrote:
| This sounds quite like Non 24 hr Sleep Wake Disorder.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep%E2%80%93wak
| e...
| sierra1011 wrote:
| Ah, the classic 28 hour day
|
| https://xkcd.com/320/
| e12e wrote:
| Reminds me of:
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20020802073153/http://www.kuro5h.
| ..
| nine_k wrote:
| Worked for me, too, in similar circumstances. 30-32 hours with
| 8-9 hours of sleep and 21-24 hours of activity is a somehow
| better sleep/activity ratio, closer to 1/4 than to 1/3. More
| important for me were longer stretches of uninterrupted
| concentration time. Likely it's not important in the vibe-
| coding case.
| dlcarrier wrote:
| Spend a few hundred on a GPU, run Cline locally, and get a good
| nights rest.
| plusfour wrote:
| have some self respect.
| judge123 wrote:
| LOL, this is the most brilliant, unhinged productivity hack I've
| seen all year. What's next? Moving to a different time zone to
| get more GPT-5 credits? I'm taking notes.
| cookiengineer wrote:
| You seem to be a young fella, so let me tell you this:
|
| Every time you do coder.Health-- for bank.Money++, you have the
| problem that you are never able to do coder.Health++ for
| bank.Money-- afterwards.
|
| Never sacrifice health for money. Never. Every idea that needs to
| be worked on more than 50 hours a week is an idea not worth
| working on.
|
| I know how it is, I've been there myself. You'll be reluctant to
| listen now. But maybe in a year you'll come back and remember
| this comment.
| teaearlgraycold wrote:
| I'd say generally yes, working yourself too hard for some
| bullshit SaaS isn't worth it. But there are bigger problems out
| there. You might still be expending your health but it could be
| worth it enough for others to justify the effort.
| sneak wrote:
| People have been trading off sleep deprivation for productivity
| for all of human history.
|
| It isn't always about money, and it isn't always a choice.
|
| It is a personal decision to build or destroy one's body, and
| while your advice is maybe sound in general, we should avoid
| generalizing for other people.
|
| A little bit of sleep deprivation isn't life threatening (such
| as being significantly overweight, or smoking, or consistently
| eating unhealthy foods). We should avoid over-moralizing to
| others about the engineering tradeoffs they make in their own
| lives.
|
| Many a family has been enriched by mothers and fathers
| overworking themselves to build a better life for their
| children, for example.
|
| > _Never sacrifice health for money. Never. Every idea that
| needs to be worked on more than 50 hours a week is an idea not
| worth working on._
|
| If I had taken this advice verbatim in my 20s, I wouldn't be
| able to frequently be working 20 hour weeks in my 40s. I would
| argue that speaking in absolutes like this is actually bad
| advice.
|
| It is frequently a good thing to work yourself to burnout for a
| year or three if it means you can work at 20% for the following
| 20 years.
| mereck wrote:
| > It is frequently a good thing to work yourself to burnout
| for a year or three if it means you can work at 20% for the
| following 20 years.
|
| Burnout is never a good thing. Go slower. Go well. Thank
| yourself later.
| sneak wrote:
| I disagree. The year or two that ended with me burning out
| was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
|
| I couldn't work for two years after it and it was still
| worth it.
| cookiengineer wrote:
| > I disagree. The year or two that ended with me burning
| out was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
|
| > I couldn't work for two years after it and it was still
| worth it.
|
| That sums up kind of the problem I have with that type of
| survivor's bias.
|
| Question to you:
|
| Was it worth because of the burnout or because of other
| variables in that specific part of your life?
|
| If the other variables were not the same, would you still
| recommend it, just for the sake of "recommending the
| experience of a burnout"?
| komali2 wrote:
| > People have been trading off sleep deprivation for
| productivity for all of human history.
|
| I disagree, I believe what we mean when we say "productivity"
| these days was invented maybe during industrialization, maybe
| 1800s, and a couple etymology dictionaries I checked seem to
| agree, that the word being used in an economic sense to mean
| "production per unit" only started occurring in the 1890s.
| Also, I believe that the modern sense, meaning, "whether a
| human's time is spent being productive for the economy," is a
| mid to late 20th century invention of neoliberalism.
|
| I don't really like hyper-generalizations like "all people
| have been doing this thing for all of human history," because
| it's just a silly thing to say on the face of it - the
| English were doing very different things and had very
| difference concerns in the year 800, 1100, 1700, 1900, and
| 2025! But also, the English in 1300 were doing _very_
| different things than the indigenous Americans in 1300! That
| said, one generalization I 'm comfortable with is that
| throughout all of human history, until maybe the 1940s,
| people have been seeking comfort, leisure, and peace, and
| only recently have we developed a global society, and at that
| one that is obsessed with finding economic justifications for
| everything, including how humans spend their time!
|
| You mention, "it isn't always a choice," and I agree, that is
| the failure of capitalism - there are people out there
| destroying their lives, minds, and bodies to scrape out a
| living. Our global economic system has failed these people -
| in fact it's sacrificed them on the alter of consumerism.
|
| Many a child had stunted development from mothers and fathers
| subscribing to the cult of capitalism and overworking
| themselves and never being at home, with the self-serving
| justification of "I'm making a better life for my child,"
| when in fact they're not.
| schmookeeg wrote:
| > you have the problem that you are never able to do
| coder.Health++ for bank.Money-- afterwards.
|
| Can you expound on this for me? This rule is not at all obvious
| to me. I'm curious what perspective this hails from :)
|
| For example, most of my career, I will take 6+ months off
| between particularly intense work crunches for
| contracts/startups/jobs. I find the time off restorative to the
| point where I get restless for the next crunch.
| cookiengineer wrote:
| > I find the time off restorative to the point where I get
| restless for the next crunch.
|
| That is a sign of addiction, not a sign of balance.
|
| The issues I have with this "crunching it" mentality now
| (post-burnouts) is that even with some time off afterwards
| you'll pay the price with physical health.
|
| Just the heart issues alone that you'll get because of the
| absurd and constant stress levels are now for me an indicator
| that it's not worth it.
|
| A company doesn't give a damn about you. They are not your
| family. The first sign of risk they'll ditch you. Devs need
| to see work as what it is: it's a contract with mutual
| expectations.
|
| And my recommendation is to self-reflect more on the health
| part, because we (including me) tend to rationalize that it's
| worth working more for the sake of building something or for
| the interesting research parts, or for learning experience or
| whatever we make up to justify it.
|
| You can do that still with basic income. We just can't
| because society is fucked up, and research and development
| isn't paid enough to make a living and a healthy life. I also
| think that huge parts of the open source community that I
| identify myself with on a moral level are pretty
| hypocritical, considering that only the top notch famous
| "leaders" make enough to have a good balanced life. The 99%+
| majority doesn't make enough to even rent a flat, and that's
| the absurd part of our society. I still can't fathom how the
| richest companies have money laying around on their bank
| accounts, and were built on the shoulders of unpaid open
| source contributors that got nothing in return.
|
| That is something I really don't understand because it's
| honestly really messed up if you think about it.
| schmookeeg wrote:
| Thank you for expounding, but man, I have so many "wait,
| what? who?" reactions to that narrative.
|
| I'm addicted to coding, not work. I know this because I've
| tried other jobs, even in late career, and they sucked in
| comparison and brought me no joy.
|
| "The company" is mine, so yeah, probably it doesn't care
| about me, but it's definitely not dropping me without
| consent. :)
|
| 48, soon 49, heart still going. Not even sure what that's
| referring to. I don't feel stressed in these crunches, I
| feel _excited_! I build cool shit! They pay me to build
| cool shit! They pay me _way too much_ to build cool shit!
|
| I guess I don't know what I would balance that excitement
| with. I have cool hobbies too, and those have their place,
| but... I just don't resonate with your take and view on the
| industry.
|
| IF someone hated coding, creating, or the tech industry
| itself -- then I could squint and get behind your balance
| suggestions. For them. :)
|
| Thanks for sharing the perspective though. If nothing else,
| you're fanning my gratitude flame.
| cookiengineer wrote:
| Don't get me wrong, I still love to code, and I still
| work on open source projects and I still believe in a
| future where sharing of mutual contributions lead to a
| better outcome for everyone. That's not my point.
|
| I also am building up my own company for the last couple
| years. But I want it to be a sustainable company that
| promotes a healthy lifestyle and that doesn't overwork
| its employees, and one that doesn't aim for 2 years
| turnover/rehiring of staff...because I think these are
| the typical effects of a toxic work environment, and
| reflects the values I don't agree with, both on a
| personal and a professional level.
|
| In the end we both have a different leading style, I
| guess!?
| TruePath wrote:
| Some of the happiest and most satisfied people I know are
| academics who work 80+ hours a week because they love what they
| do. You don't need to sacrifice health to work more than 50
| hours a week. And realistically there is no long term health
| damage from what he is doing. And yes you can trade money for
| better health, though in the first world you rapidly hit
| diminishing returns but if your sleep deprivation can make the
| difference between being able to afford good health care or
| moving to an area with less pollution it absolutely can trade
| off like that.
| 7jjjjjjj wrote:
| If you make B2B SASS, and you love your work, there's
| something wrong with you.
| 000ooo000 wrote:
| You have it backwards
|
| *Optimising My Claude Usage Around Their Usage Limits
|
| Your sleep regime here is in no way optimal
| TheCowboy wrote:
| Why isn't simply getting another Claude account an option that
| you've tried before damaging your brain with low quality sleep?
|
| Or writing prompts that get fired off by a script once the usage
| resets when sleeping so that you at least get some free tokies?
|
| I'm sympathetic to wanting to squeeze out what you can to control
| costs, but this is something that might only seem sustainable
| because you're too exhausted to fully appreciate the potential
| deleterious long-term health effects.
| unwise-exe wrote:
| The writing style would seem to suggest that the lack of sleep
| has been having more effects than reported.
| dalemhurley wrote:
| You know Cursor is giving away unlimited GPT-5 this week?
|
| You could just work 24x7 and Vibe code yourself to a trillion
| dollars.
|
| In all seriousness, you need to rest properly, you will be more
| productive and make less mistakes and have less rework.
|
| Finally, if you are using Claude to get your "React component to
| hydrate correctly", you are not being very efficient in using AI
| as a coding agent.
|
| I wrote a post about using Full.CX MCP that will build complete
| features for you with test etc.
| https://dalehurley.com/posts/fullcxmcp
| rightrighton87 wrote:
| These are the type of people I'm up against at job interviews FML
| more_corn wrote:
| Your code will actually work though and you'll understand it.
| Broheem is going to show up bleary eyed and with zero
| understanding of what his code does or how. Pretty sure he's
| going to wash out of any interview.
| Ezhik wrote:
| Being inspired by Hundred Rabbits to break your sleep schedule to
| work on a B2B SaaS... If this is bait, then I am hooked.
| thefz wrote:
| Writing sofwtware is hard already, with such dependence on shitty
| AI code generation we must brace for the advent of the worst code
| ever era. Security and performance wise it will be a mess.
| more_corn wrote:
| I would agree but then I think back on the codebases I've seen
| over the years. Ai doesn't have a monopoly on crappy code and
| at least if you learn something you can add it to your cursor
| rules (let's always follow best practices for security and data
| protection) Or you can add it as a pre-commit check. Whereas
| with human devs you can tell them a hundred times and they
| still won't listen.
| TruePath wrote:
| It is worth remembering that before artificial lighting the
| normal sleep pattern is to sleep in two segments and get up in
| the middle to have sex, talk, do some chores, change the baby
| etc. And I believe a normal sleep cycle is something like 90
| minutes so if you *really* sleep in 3 hour chunks that's actually
| probably healthier than the normal us sleep schedule. I mean many
| of us find the usual wake at 7am alarm schedule to be pretty damn
| brutal. However, if what you actually do is kinda lie around
| check your phone in bed etc and then get blasted awake by an
| alarm that's a different story.
| withinboredom wrote:
| Bro: uv tool install claude-monitor
|
| The game is to balance the usage bars. If you run out of one
| before the others, you aren't max-min'ing it right.
| SrslyJosh wrote:
| Totally not a cult.
| macgiysap wrote:
| If you're ever near the Annapolis area hit me up. I'm taking my
| boat out racing most weekends and Wednesday nights during the
| summer.
| garrettgrimsley wrote:
| There's no contact information in your profile, and googling
| your username has but one hit: this very comment.
| hoppp wrote:
| Solo sailing liveaboard coder here also. High five!
| bialpio wrote:
| Brilliant example of Poe's law, I seriously don't know if this
| article is sincere or not. I tip my hat to the author.
| guywithahat wrote:
| For his sake I really hope he's not "optimizing his sleep" for
| a B2B SaaS stealth startup lol. It was a funny article though
| kazinator wrote:
| When the usage limit strikes, wouldn't that be a great time to
| review the code, and think a little bit?
| mvieira38 wrote:
| Please make this a series and monitor your vitals. Maybe routine
| cognitive tests would be a fun thing to do, like memory games or
| playing 10 games on lichess bullet daily, so we could track if
| the microsleeping is effective or not.
| taftster wrote:
| Having Claude help write the tracking/monitoring application
| would be an additional bonus.
| mvieira38 wrote:
| And interpreting the results, and writing the blog posts and
| posting. Become Claude
| StopVibeCoding wrote:
| I hope this is sarcasm. Surely, right?
| jug wrote:
| I showed this blog post to ChatGPT and even an AI disapproved,
| lol.
| internetguy wrote:
| maybe if you were really a "cracked coder", you could learn
| React...
| jacquesm wrote:
| So, you're now officially a peripheral of an AI. That thing is
| supposed to work for you, not the other way around. I'm tempted
| to front you the money for a larger subscription so you can get
| some sleep, on the other hand then you might really burn out.
| Garlef wrote:
| Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have
| kids.
| j45 wrote:
| Feeding newborns around the clock + micro sleep excluded.
| bogwog wrote:
| It may reduce your life span by 50%, but when you consider it
| improves your productivity by 100x, it means you lived more of a
| life than those that didn't.
|
| (Also, I'm assuming this post is a joke, but some of the comments
| here seem to ve taking it seriously)
| whalesalad wrote:
| bro just get an api key and call it a day lol.
| jaredcwhite wrote:
| Haha, good one! I love me some juicy satire.
|
| Wait...erm, is this for real?? :face_with_spiral_eyes:
| jongjong wrote:
| This is one advantage of living in Australia. I didn't even
| realize LLM usage limits were still a thing. Last time I
| encountered one was during the rollout of GPT4.
| globular-toast wrote:
| This goes along with my current theory about how people are
| getting 10x results using LLMs: they're putting in 10x the time.
| 6thbit wrote:
| Careful, you might end up dreaming of electric sheep.
| etothepii wrote:
| I used to be a polyphasic sleeper so this article interested me
| but I find myself stuck on the final paragraph.
|
| > My velocity has increased 10x and I'm shipping features like a
| cracked ninja now, which is great because my B2B SaaS is still in
| stealth mode.
|
| Does someone have a good book I can read on stealth mode
| startups?
|
| My B2B SaaS is only small (about $1.25m ARR) but I can't imagine
| shipping features without someone to use them. We could
| definitely write a lot more features if our users didn't point
| out the ways that what we were doing wasn't quite right or didn't
| fit with the problem we thought we were solving.
|
| I can imagine doing the business part, regulatory part or hard
| tech part of a startup in stealth mode - but what would does it
| mean to ship features in stealth mode?
| stavros wrote:
| It means 50% of your features will be useless, or harmful.
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