Craig Hughes

@craig.rungie.com

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I dabble. Quite a lot.

A screenshot showing a patch to CLAUDE.md, adding this section: Never pick Python because it's the easy default — for Craig it's a last resort, and he's been bitten repeatedly. The public Python corpus is dominated by unprofiled notebook/glue code, so Python-shaped instincts drift toward scalar loops and unbatched hot paths; fight that pull in EVERY language: design data flow batch-first (gather → one batched call → scatter) — a per-item call in a hot path is a defect, not a style choice. Prefer ecosystems whose norms pull toward quality: Rust for performance-critical or parallel work; TypeScript on bun (Craig's usual) or Go for services and tooling. If Python is genuinely unavoidable (existing codebase, irreplaceable library), write it like a systems language, profile it before calling it done, and surface the dependency to Craig as debt to retire.
Meme image showing Omnicorp Senior Vice President Dick Jones standing in front of an ED-209 with a caption reading: "It comes down to one simple fact – these people failed to comply with law enforcement…"
Screenshot of a 33m Claude Code run with 86 agents using 7.1m tokens
OpenAI claims that "ChatGPT Work" is available in the desktop app today. It is not available in the desktop app.
Chart showing index score vs API cost for different models. GPT-5.6 is far cheaper than fable for equivalent performance, and far more capable than opus 4.8 for similar cost.
The Sea Captain FSHK hands you the wheel and argues about the stars You delegate like someone who has actually stood a night watch: fully, but not blindly. You want the cargo delivered and you want your navigator to contradict you before the reef, not after. You know the ship has moods, and you'd rather sail with a crew than steer a machine. The rarest thing about you: you can be argued out of a heading mid-voyage without feeling mutinied against. Kin: Shackleton, Captain Picard, every good engineering manager
Insane convoluted reply/quote-post thread showing a quote-post, reply to that post, quote-post of the reply, and the quote-post on the quote-post. Just fucking UI/UX bonkersness.
Screenshot of Opus remembering that oh yeah, it can read the code, I don't need to read it myself to find out something.
Screenshot of the bluesky icons below a post, adding a "thread unroll" button.
98% of weekly quote; 2 days left till rest!
A chart showing monthly usage so far for June - 1.58 billion tokens total with a 93.5% cache hit rate; total value $1,078.65 and a total of 19.3M tokens produced as output.
Screenshot showing summary of completed massive fan-out workflow with 28M Haiku tokens consumed ni ~77 minutes across 531 agents.
Churning through Haiku agent requests - 531 of them!
Claude code workflow won't allow literal "Date.now()", "Math.random()", etc in prompts because it thinks they might be conditions on the workflow itself.
screenshot showing one workflow consuming 2.3M tokens (so far) over 37m44s of runtime and still going.
Teenage Lucas Haas
Lucas Haas portrait
A black labrador retriever lying on the floor napping.
Data showing 1.6 billion tokens consumed worth $1238.44
* Sautéed for 2h 29m 48s (screenshot from Claude Code)
Screenshot showing that Claude Code has been running on a single task for over an hour and half, and still going.
A printed paper sign that reads "TO AVOID THE RISK OF A BEAR BEING TRAPED IN THE RESTROOM, PLEASE DO NOT PROP THE DOOR OPEN THANK YOU"
Javier Soltero posting on LinkedIn about Outlook having special code in it specifically for space shuttle networking.
Absolutely terrible UI where transparency makes the majority of the menu completely unreadable.
Ad at a bus stop replaced with the text of an email from Elon Musk fishing for an invite to a party at Epstein's island.