u/AcrobaticMaize2408

Bought a pair of reasonably expensive shoes 5 months ago (Skechers). Both shoes developed quite bad wear around the back of the heel. So much so that holes had appeared. Didn't think I'd have any luck complaining about it to Amazon but thought may as well give it a go. Chatted with an online agent and they immediately offered to refund me half the purchase price.

Mentioned that the Consumer Rights Act 2015 protects me from shoddy merchandise if within 6 months of purchase and that I'd like a full refund/replacement, and after chatting to their supervisor (I presume - they went awol for about 5 minutes) they credited me with the full refund via a gift card. Excellent customer service 🤣 .

I needed to create a fairly complex set of scripts for managing a number of back-end services - databases, web servers, applications etc. Like any sensible swe I tasked an LLM to come up with the plan based on my requirements - in this case Opus 5 in Max mode.

It did a fairly decent first pass but with hundreds of lines of code I don't have the time to forensically check line by line. So pasted it all into deepseek-4-pro (auto mode) for review. It found plenty of things to improve, plus some pretty glaring bugs. This went back and forth about 5 times - pasting DS's suggestions into Claude, Claude's revisions into DS, etc, with me acting as The Central Scrutinizer.

In the end I had a really robust set of scripts. Opus 5 on its own was disappointing. I know bouncing things between LLMs isn't anything new but if I'd just stuck with Opus I'd probably still be fighting the bugs or poor design. And DS is still pretty good value despite what you'd read on here 😂 .

I have a pretty good idea of what I'd like for a solar + storage installation which includes Fogstar storage and Sunsync inverter. I've contacted a couple of local installers but they seem to want to install only specific hardware and are not interested in a project where I supply some of the kit. Location is NW England - specifically North Merseyside/West Lancashire area. TIA.