I'll go first:

I freaking love Dom and every single scene he's in!

Being a huge fan of The Wire, and how the two characters are alike, it felt like a cross-over between two of my favorite shows.

We had Fable for so few days, yet so many people hate going back to Opus 4.8.

I'm just curious what people actually got out of Fable in that time.

What could it do that Opus 4.8 could not?

Opus has reached the point where it one-shots most of what I throw at it, including fairly complex features.

Honestly, I don't feel like I need much more intelligence.

What I do want is speed, without compromising intelligence.

If every task that currently takes 5 to 15 minutes with Opus 4.8 xhigh could be completed in under a minute, I suspect that would drive more innovation than making models another few percentage points smarter.

I love reading Moiraine's and Lan's interactions with others. Especially in the early books.

They're always in control. But the very few times Moiraine and Lan argue with each other we get gems like this one, when they're on a ship and Lan said something that pissed Moiraine off:

"Moiraine gave him a look that would have nailed any other man to the mast, but the Warder never blinked. Lan made cold steel seem like tin."

1. Minimizing exposure to people.

I don't mean isolation. I mean I just avoid being out "all day" with other people. My social battery will run out and/or someone will say something sending me into a murderous rage.

Short burst of being where lots of people are works best for me, I can handle max 2-4h per day in social settings.

2. Constant distractions

I'm an entrepreneur, so I work a lot on my business, which I luckily can run solo, and from wherever I want.

Also I've begun to exercise everyday.

And I'm trying to learn a new language.

And in the evenings I chill a few hours with Youtube, Netflix, reddit, gaming.

But work, exercise and language learning are the 3 things that take up most of my days, so I can avoid living for too long inside my own head with my fucked up thoughts.

If don't distract myself, eventually I will start making up hypothetical fights with people that sends me into a murderous rage once again.

What are your coping mechanisms?

Is there a higher chance of success if both people have BPD, since they may understand each other better on an emotional level?

Or is it more likely to become a recipe for disaster because both people may be emotionally volatile at the same time?

Background

I moved to Thailand 8 months ago and I've attended Thai language school twice a week and take private lessons twice a week since moving here.

I’ve reached that stage where some days it feels like I’ve completely stopped progressing.

Then other days I look back and realize how far I’ve actually come.

But I still barely understand Thai people when they talk naturally to each other on the street. It sounds nothing like the Thai I hear from teachers in class.

What should I do?

I guess what I really want to know is: how do I keep improving from here? Right now the progress feels almost invisible from week to week.

TL;DR: Use AI to compress 5 to 10 hours of expert advice into a tailored report for your exact business in a few minutes, instead of manually consuming content and forgetting most of it afterward.

For instance, if you're unsure how to price your B2B SaaS, find maybe 10 Youtube videos, blog posts, or articles about the topic.

Do it manually so you can vet the authors a bit, for example making sure they actually have a track record and aren't just random wannabe influencers with 32 subscribers.

Then drop all the video URLs into a transcription tool (there are plenty of free ones online), and export everything as PDFs. Upload the PDFs to your LLM of choice, ideally one that already has context about your business and app (Claude Code for instance).

Then ask it to extract and summarize the key insights from ALL pdf's, and write a concise section specifically about how YOU shoul apply the information: what to prioritize, what mistakes to avoid, what strategies actually make sense for your situation, etc.

In 5 minutes, you can basically pull together 5 to 10 hours of expert advice from successful people and get a tailored report for YOUR business on how to apply best practices in a specific area.

Then based on this report you can make your own decision of what the right move is.

Before this, you had to watch everything manually, try to remember it all afterward, and probably forget 99% of it anyway.

Want to do this on steroids?

Set up an AI workflow that reads a Google Sheet or Notion database where you list topics or problems you want to improve in your app.

Then let the AI handle the entire pipeline automatically: finding high-quality videos and articles, transcribing them, extracting key insights, summarizing best practices, and generating a tailored report with concrete recommendations for your specific product.

It can even create and organize linked Notion pages for each topic automatically.

You basically build your own continuously updating business research assistant.

And no this isn't written by AI, and I'm not promoting Google or Claude or Notion or Youtube. I couldn't care less what tools you use. It's just the ones I used to achieve what I mentioned above.

I’m exhausted. Angry. Empty. Constantly shifting between feeling too much and nothing at all.

I can’t tell what’s actually me anymore.

Every reaction, every attachment, every fear, every mood swing, I end up wondering if it’s my personality or just another symptom.

Sometimes I feel like I’m just a collection of coping mechanisms held together by routine and distraction.

And the worst part is, I don’t even know what’s left underneath it all.

I feel like I no longer exist.

Someone can react poorly to something I said.

Or disagree with me.

Or only react with an emoji when I wrote something long and thoughtful.

Then I spend the next few hours/days fighting battles with that person in my mind.

I envision countless scenarios where we argue, even physically fight, and I just feel so angry.

I'm deep into development of a big SaaS that I'm launching soon, so I never even bothered experimenting with Opus 4.7 since the backlash I read here.

But it's been a few weeks and I haven't seen as many negative posts lately.

Has it improved?

Is it better than 4.6 now?

I'm talking specifically for coding.

Background

I'm a man who's had BPD for 40+ years.

I've only known about it for a month. I didn't even know what BPD was 2 months ago.

BPD explains my entire life. I thought I was just a broken individual.

Unlike most people, for me my BPD has only gotten worse with age. I'm all alone, no friends, no partner for 2 decades, I hate everything and everyone.

And any setback I ever have in life sends me into a flying rage. Anyone who doesn't speak carefully and pleasantly to me sends me into a flying rage. I view everyone as enemies and bad guys.

And I absolutely hate it and want to change this.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is hopefully the start of something new. I will be seeing a psychiatrist to get an official diagnosis, and then plan and start some therapy sessions.

I will go into this with an open mind, as I have a burning desire to get better.

Life is not fun right now, to put it mildly.

But part of me thinks there's equal chance that I will hate the psychiatrists guts after 5 minutes and get up and leave, as well as going through with it and start improving.

Any tips?

I would love to hear some advice, tips, or stories anyone has from seeing a therapist and/or psychiatrist for their BPD, regardless if you improved or not.

Anyone else feel like they're walking around with a permanent decay aura?

Like in the first cinematic of World of Warcraft when a warlock steps foot onto a grass field, and the grass close to him starts to rot away and die.

I feel like having BPD is exactly like that. Anything that comes close to me, people, relationships, jobs, material things, all decay, wither, and eventually die.