Anthropic customer stopped using Claude and Claude Code completely in favor of Venice AI and local models due to confidentiality concerns and perceived project sabotage.

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        "excerpt": "the hub-and-spoke structure is interesting but I'm wondering how PTL handles context limits when it's reviewing 12+ journals at once. does it summarize each one first and then compile, or does it try to ingest everything raw into one pass? that weekly compilation step sounds like it could get expensive fast depending on the approach",
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        "excerpt": "The timestamp-based weekly refresh needs a deletion path too. A spec removed from a product repo won't appear among files newer than the last refresh, but its copied version could still answer questions in the knowledge stack. Track each copied document's source path and revision, reconcile removals, and stamp overviews with the source revisions they summarize. Then PTL can distinguish 'current pr",
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        "excerpt": "Interesting that you moved off Claude Code mainly for confidentiality and then stayed for cost. Where does the local Qwen3 setup still fall short for you compared to Claude, especially on longer coding tasks or tool use? I am curious where you still wish you had the bigger model.",
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        "excerpt": "the per project journal is what I'd keep even if the rest got thrown out. a dozen agents with no written history ends with nobody knowing why a file changed.",
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