Incipient

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by Incipient 5mo ago
The moat is absolutely about integration, not the underlying tech/model. Azure Copilot can charge whatever it wants because you can't use anything else.
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by Incipient 5mo ago
TLDR: people are cost conscious and cutting out the middle man by going direct to suppliers (or more direct). I expect management probably didn't do as well as they could have too. While tech has definitely enabled this shift, it doesn
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by Incipient 5mo ago
Copilot has said they'll be giving out previous months "if you did token pricing, it would cost $x" so a lot of us will have real numbers to actually anticipate our spend. Personally I'm anticipating agentic coding will
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by Incipient 5mo ago
>there's little correlation between token spend and the quality My sentiment exactly! I have a very similar scaffold to each of my prompts, and feel I provide similar context files, however sometimes I get a truly inspired, complex,
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by Incipient 5mo ago
You have one agent write the code, a separate one to do the docs, a third to harmonise them. After a few weeks they'll settle on the documentation for raised garden bed and the implementation of a home defence sprinkler system. All whi
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by Incipient 5mo ago
The problem is I can't afford the tokens! Even on my $10/mo plan, running either 100 opus, or 300 sonnet agent runs would cost hundreds of dollars - well above my budget!
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by Incipient 5mo ago
I wouldn't call it hindsight - I don't think anyone, at any stage, thought running a 10 minute+ sonnet session for 1 premium credit was ever profitable. We all knew it was a loss leader to get people using it.
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by Incipient 5mo ago
I'd call it a straight up "bait and switch".
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by Incipient 5mo ago
I don't know how you'd confirm either way. A lot of stuff from the 80s is in landfill now because it's just old, even if not broken. I'm sure we built a lot of badly made stuff then too, but my guess is with our tighter
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by Incipient 5mo ago
I still haven't found useful "memory". It's either an agents.md with a high level summary, which is fairly useless for specific details (eg "editing this element needs to mark this other element as a draft") or
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by Incipient 6mo ago
Do you deploy a script per-user with mdm/intune to set up the wireguard tunnel whenever someone initially logs into a laptop? I've investigated a few options for non-admin wireguard on Windows and it's all pretty messy.
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by Incipient 6mo ago
I still cannot get even Opus to be consistent with my design logic, and not leak sensitive data via endpoints etc. I'm either genuinely missing some key harness/whatever, or businesses are going to have issues down the line.
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by Incipient 6mo ago
I mean it's a fairly trivial case of supply and demand. The demand for human capital will drop, so the price will go down.
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by Incipient 6mo ago
CC wasn't per-token either? Nor is Codex? From my simple checks - and from Microsoft's own blog - per token pricing isn't going to be realistic for agentic coding either.
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by Incipient 6mo ago
>it’s now common for a handful of requests to incur costs that exceed the plan price! I think this is really telling. The cost of AI has really been masked HUGELY to drive adoption. The true cost is likely to be unsustainable for the big
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by Incipient 6mo ago
I don't think anyone can honestly say a huge frontier model is actually going to be matched by something running on 64gb locally?
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by Incipient 6mo ago
For mid sized businesses, where you're mostly just doing some business reporting, a single mssql instance makes for a great and very cheap 'data warehouse'. All the auth magically works for people to connect with Excel, and p
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by Incipient 6mo ago
I'm a mostly solo dev, and I'm finding that being purely code-review for an AI is sub-optimal. Too often the AI runs off down bad paths which you only realise later, and unpicking the mess is most likely a productivity loss. Worki
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by Incipient 6mo ago
But then, what need do we have for the AI?
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by Incipient 6mo ago
It's just 4 years...but I'm genuinely thinking you lot aren't going to survive it. Seeing what is happening from both sides, as well as 'independents' (the NY chap). I feel your society is just cooked. I am genuinel
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by Incipient 6mo ago
According to Wikipedia their current budget is roughly 40bn usd, so it would triple their budget. This fascination with ignoring that everyone in this disaster is the 'bad guy' (yeah including the US) is very bizarre.
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by Incipient 6mo ago
I can't believe that the toll will actually be paid - it would turn Iran into an INSANELY wealthy superpower and easily give them the funds to hugely increase their availability to fund groups like hezbollah etc.
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by Incipient 6mo ago
Demos used to have sizes - I can't see one for this, is it just an 'open' category? This thing is far too insane to be size limited, surely?
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by Incipient 6mo ago
The main thing I don't like is type-ability. Even now I type in 192.168.1.14 to connect to my mates computer to play satisfactory. No way in heck am I trying in an ip6!
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by Incipient 7mo ago
I understand there is a position of "we've always done it this way, so we keep doing it this way" And. "we need to move with the times and use new tech!". But surely there is some happy middle ground that doesn&#x2
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by Incipient 7mo ago
I read the first two paragraphs, found a bunch of fairly glaring errors, and got put off. >It has type hints, which are optional, which means they’re not there. I mean it is there, and it works. I've also not had an AI make a dict k
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by Incipient 7mo ago
It isn't the same, but it's comparable. Google is paying Mozilla to be the default search engine. Google is only paying Mozilla because Firefox has users, regardless if they use the default search engine or not. So, indirectly eve
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by Incipient 7mo ago
"Kamprani began the project back in 2011" Ohh I missed that! I did actually read (view haha?) the article...
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by Incipient 7mo ago
I feel like I've seen some of these designs a VERY long time ago? Is this something old that the person was just interviewed on recently?
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by Incipient 7mo ago
That boat is for people that store lunch money in a bank account, not a wallet.

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