People are replying that OP must own an old TV, but that's missing the point: with very old non-smart TVs, menu commands were always instantaneous!

Yeah, I don't understand why everyone is trying to invalidate their experience or suggest workarounds (implying that they are the problem); this isn't stackoverflow.

Every TV I have interacted with in recent years is slow and terrible, except for really old ones. The TVs are the problem, and we shouldn't be making excuses for that.

This was my experience with the switch from analog cable boxes to digital boxes. The whole experience became sluggish as channel changes were forced to wait for I-frames which depended on the GOP size.

I don't disagree, knowing how to use the tools is important. But I wanted to add that great prompting skill nowadays are far far less necessary for top-tier models that it was years ago. If I'm clear about what I want and how I want it to behave, Claude Opus 4.5 almost always nails it first time. The "extra" that I do often, that maybe newcomers don't, is to setup a system where the LLM can easily check the results of its changes (verbose logs in terminal and, in web, verbose logs in console and playwright).

For me, it'll randomly ask for the pin code as OP reported, but card insertion is never required.

I've grown increase hate towards Finder to the point that I avoid using at all costs. I've been migrating to the terminal, using fzf to find files and directories and yazi for a more graphical experience.

How can it be called FINDER, if it can't FIND things? cmd+shift+g should be a fuzzy search, but it returns nothing 80% of the time. cmd+f often can't see files that are in first level folders inside my home folder.

Meanwhile, hitting Esc+C in the terminal (via fzf) it's totally effective.

I'm seeing widely opposing takes here; my experience is that the advice is correct depending on where you are. I've worked in places where someone who works 130% is seen as company's profit. But I'm currently at a place where making an extra effort is definitely rewarded with promotions.

Agreed. I already use Termux for Claude code via ssh in my phone, but I'm nevertheless excited to try this.

I agree. I use Opus 4.5 daily and I'm often trying new models to see how they compare. I didn't think GLM 4.7 was very good, but MiniMax 2.1 is the closest to Sonnet 4.5 I've used. Still not at the same level, and still very much behind Opus, but it is impressive nonetheless.

FYI I use CC for Anthropic models and OpenCode for everything else.

That's brilliant UX. I was vibe coding a webpage in minutes, and I could immediately check the results.

My non-physicist but curious-about-the-topic take is similar. Things at the quantum level are not "complex" in the systems-theory sense. They couldn't be, I think, since we're dealing with the most basic constituents of the universe. They are mysterious, confusing, wildly counterintuitive... but they are fundamental. The most basic stuff there is.

The study of these things, on the other hand, is genuinely complex and difficult. But that's epistemology, not ontology.