u/ThirdPlaceDojo

This isn't just a Rouvy issue as it was the same on Zwift but the way it feels to ride in these games isn't at all like riding my real bike outside in terms of gears and speed and I'm wondering if there's a setting I can adjust.

Outside when I go down hills, I can coast and fly and then on the upcoming flat, I will carry that momentum for a while.

While playing Rouvy, I have to CONSTANTLY be peddling to keep going. Is that just how these indoor trainers work?

I just run Claude on Sonnet 4.6 with "Thinking" disabled, as I always have because I never even tried other models or modes because I was happy with the default.

As of 2 days ago, every singe f-ing response does a long "thinking" chain before responding with one of them taking a full FIVE MINUTES before giving a reply where before 2 days ago that same reply would've taken 4 seconds at most.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I've been "thumbs down"-ing a ton of responses and replying to Anthropic about it but that feels like screaming into a void. I also cancelled my subscription which was supposed to renew today and put it in there as well.

I sent screenshots proving that "thinking" is disabled as well but again, it all just feels useless.

Has this been happening to anyone else or does anyone know something I can do to stop this? It's wasting a massive amount of my time and burning through my token use like crazy.

I keep running into a specific frustration. What's actually happening in a roll feels like it contains way more information than I'm able to read and respond to in the moment.

I've started wondering if the gap is structural. That my perception during rolling filters and responds to what I already know how to recognize. When something familiar happens I react. When something unfamiliar happens I don't perceive it clearly, I just feel chaos and start muscling. The information was probably there the whole time. I just couldn't read it.

And drilling more techniques doesn't seem to close that gap. It just gives me more shapes to try to match against situations that never quite fit the shape I drilled. I get better at recognizing familiar patterns but the chaos of unfamiliar ones doesn't get less chaotic.

So I've started wondering whether the skill I actually need to develop isn't more technique but more perception. The ability to feel what's actually happening in the force relationship between two bodies before reaching for a response. Not recognizing a position. Feeling what's actually there.

The direction I've been exploring: is there a way to practice perception deliberately and separately from drilling? Not studying more techniques, not adding more mat time, but developing sensitivity to what's actually happening in the contact between two bodies as it's happening. Something like the way musicians practice ear training separately from playing an instrument.

Does that exist in BJJ? Is this just something that develops through enough mat time, or can it be intentionally trained? Curious whether experienced practitioners think about this side of it or whether I'm just overthinking something that solves itself through repetition.

I'm relatively new to photography and I keep running into a specific frustration: What I notice and find beautiful in a scene almost never shows up in the shot in the way that I experienced it.

I've started wondering if the gap is structural and that the eye doesn't work like a camera; that my perception filters, selects, and responds to meaning and emotional weight, that peripheral vision frames things loosely and attention moves. The camera doesn't do any of that and just captures the whole frame equally and indifferently, regardless of what drew me to the scene in the first place.

So I've been wondering whether the skill I actually need to develop isn't just technical but might be perceptual and learning to see the way a camera sees while still being guided by what my perception finds worth capturing.

The direction I've been exploring: is there a way to practice perception deliberately and separately from shooting? Not studying great photos, not drilling settings, but developing sensitivity to light, framing, and moment as they're actually happening, before the camera comes up. Something like the way musicians practice ear training separately from playing an instrument.

Does that exist in photography? Is this just something that develops through volume, or can it be intentionally trained? Curious whether experienced photographers think about this side of it or whether I'm just overthinking something that solves itself through repetition.