opus 4.8 with the fable context is some real flowers for algernon shit

I am *constantly* typing some variation of "the output should be self contained and not make references to our conversation here -- the reader will not have this conversation in context"

With W3C Digital Credentials API, it's *finally possible* to design a health-data-sharing protocol that's idiomatic (standard FHIR-based resource sharing, questionnaire filling, etc) and works cross-platform (from web and mobile app requests to Android iOS wallets)! See article for background details on my updated "SMART Health Check-in Protocol".

Yeah. Their app doesn't even support pinch to zoom.

I wanted to share a small mental model that explains a *lot* of the gap between 1) "my data should be there in the API" and 2) "wait, where's my data?" And of course I can't resist making a few small recommendations :) See x.com/JoshCMandel/status/205…

There is *a lot* I want to know about where GPT-5.5 thought summaries come from. In the middle of debugging tool use outputs like: > • Ran find /opt/android-sdk /usr/share/java -name '*guava*.jar' 2>/dev/null | head -20 I get the following thought trace (!!) > • I need to look for a guava jar, so I'll start by searching online. I'm curious about the best places to find it. Should I check grocery stores, specialty shops, or maybe some online retailers? I wonder what brands are out there and if there's a specific type I should aim for, such as guava jam or preserves. I'll take a quick look and see what options come up!

Hmm @AnthropicAI or knowledgeable users, does "full" here mean "including pre-resumption"? >The design should have been simple: if a session has been idle for more than an hour, we could reduce users’ cost of resuming that session by clearing old thinking sections. Since the request would be a cache miss anyway, we could prune unnecessary messages from the request to reduce the number of uncached tokens sent to the API. We’d then resume sending full reasoning history.

Airline platitude or undertaker platitude? "It is our honor to care for you on your journey."

Even better than canned visualization app is adhoc report generation using the analysis JSON as input. claude.ai/public/artifacts/3… is the generated visualization HTML, and claude.ai/share/8ac52a72-3de… is the Claude session that generated it (you can see it requires very little prompting). @zakkohane

This seemed like a fun task for Claude Opus 4.7! joshuamandel.com/greenbergol… has an example run on the claim "Hydroxychloroquine improves clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19." github.com/jmandel/greenberg… describes the pipeline. I spent 3-4h on this with Claude Code managing 10 parallel copilot subagents for ~12h. It can run autonomously to analyze claims where the literature is findable in full-text open access sources. github.com/jmandel/greenberg… is the underlying output data with nodes, edges, and judgments driving the UI.

How might SMART Permission Tickets help with patient self-access, proxy access, public health, and more? Overview / explainer / live demo here: youtu.be/KlHGLZgkqcw

water leak after dishwasher install; undersink cabinet toekick dismantled for repair; heating duct exposed, uncovered; baby shoves stuff in there for fun all week; can't see what's fallen in there; grab digital otoscope to investigate; android app has rotted; try linux laptop, but scope doesn't talk USB Video; claude finds 5 gh repos that have reverse engineered protocol; codex writes userspace v4l driver in rust and android app in kotlin in one shot; use the scope; find mini broom resting one foot below floor level; rescue; rejoice github.com/jmandel/anyscope-…