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by chadash 6d ago
I agree that agents can produce decent code. In general, I don’t find agentic code beautiful but neither is most of the code I write. The code for ingesting CSV files into my ETL pipeline doesn’t have to be beautiful, it just has to work.
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by chadash 8d ago
That's my point. A good expert asks for context.
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by chadash 8d ago
I'd correct this to "The need for actual GOOD lawyers will persist I think from my own experience." I have worked with many lawyers in my career. The bad ones will look at a contract and tell you fifty things that can be im
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by chadash 17d ago
I'm old enough to remember buying software in cardboard boxes at Bestbuy. > I don't know how to respond to this point, it's a bit of a strawman. Why is it a strawman? I can sell you software for $100 once or I can sell it
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by chadash 17d ago
> If I'm happy with the weights you've given me, and I'm not using your compute for inference and not wanting or needing any updates off you, why should you continue getting money off me and my customers? I definitely unde
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by chadash 2mo ago
Not only this, but perhaps even more nefarious is that AWS gives lots of startups $100k+ in credits. This feels generous when you get it. In reality, it means that (unless you are in a compute intensive startup) you can go for months or yea
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by chadash 2mo ago
I think that's fair, but if you add a lot of value on top, a higher price is justified. Would I pay $5 for a great looking homepage, even if I only have to generate 12 images at $0.13 ($1.56 total) to get there? Yes. Sometimes models a
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by chadash 2mo ago
Ok, so I signed in to your site and started out. The $0.13 is a bit misleading because by default it generates 4 images per “sketch” so it’s more like $0.50. So I can easily get to $5 in a session, which feels like a good amount. That’s abo
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by chadash 2mo ago
I like your product and I’m gonna try it because I’m growing to hate the “Claude generated website aesthetic” but $0.13 is way too cheap.
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by chadash 2mo ago
The biggest success that people usually point to in EdTech is Duolingo. They were founded in 2011 and IPO’d for about $6.5b in 2021. A big success by any measure. But that’s the pinnacle. Compare that to DoorDash which is an $80b company, l
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by chadash 2mo ago
It’s wild how NYC trumps every other city for ethnic food by miles. The number of central Asian places (mostly Uzbek and Georgian) is probably closer to 100.
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by chadash 2mo ago
The accompanying blog post says "The one thing you couldn't see was how well Ente is doing as a business. Now you can." To the parent commenter's point, we don't have enough information to know if that's true.
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by chadash 3mo ago
i use vim quite a bit! I find that in this new era, i'm in the command line a lot and like to stay in the command line. vim (I use neovim) is a good way to do that. Furthermore, a lot of my workflow is now done on remote servers (i l
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by chadash 3mo ago
> I call on the Secretary-General to pledge that, within 180 days, the United Nations will remove all third-party tracking, analytics, testing and advertising scripts, and all tracking beacons, from its websites - the entire online esta
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by chadash 3mo ago
> There is a surprisingly low threshold on what people are willing to pay for labor saving devices. A lot of people gladly pay humans to launder their clothes, so the market is there. But the current iteration of wash/dry combo mach
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by chadash 3mo ago
> don't have liquid cash to pile up on their yacht I think a reasonable metric would be "you have 2 years to sell your assets and convert to cash (or something super liquid like treasuries)". This accounts for people who
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by chadash 4mo ago
I don't care if they can write bubble sort off the top of their head. I do care that when they were in class, they had to go through the exercise of implementing bubble sort in their algorithm, realizing that they had an off-by-one err
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by chadash 4mo ago
Find me a university that bans AI usage on campus in CS courses. I don't mind if students have access to AI and use it to help study, but I want some kind of assurance that they are able to build things without using AI. As a hiring ma
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by chadash 5mo ago
IANAA, but pretty sure you can only deduct a donation against business profit. Are you suggesting that Anthropic is running at a profit?
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by chadash 5mo ago
Yes. High value work where cost (mostly) doesn't matter. For example, if I need to look over a legal doc for possible mistakes (part of a workflow i have), it doesn't matter (in my case) whether it costs $0.01 or $10.00, since it&
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by chadash 5mo ago
What stops a scalper from buying early and then guaranteeing someone they will transfer the ticket on the day of the event?
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by chadash 6mo ago
For those of us with zero context, what's the story here?
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by chadash 6mo ago
I’m not sure I agree with your argument but all of it made sense until you started talking about Cuba. Iran knows that the US population really really doesn’t want a ground invasion. Right now, we have lost a handful of lives from missiles
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by chadash 6mo ago
Bad quarter for certain, but to keep things in perspective, the S&P is still up 13% over the past 12 months (likely 14% as soon as the market opens in 20 minutes). There's nothing magical about a "quarter". Had Q1 2025 en
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by chadash 7mo ago
The base model of the MacBook Air is $1099 now. That has 16GB ram and 512gb disk. And it’s a hell of a computer. The crazy thing is we often cite an Apple Tax, but in this case, I think they actually have a cheaper product.
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by chadash 7mo ago
Yes, but Tudor's brand is "it's built by the same company as Rolex".
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by chadash 7mo ago
Apple clearly positions themselves as a premium product. There is some luxury element to it to (e.g., my friends will look down on me if I have an android), but it's not really the same as a true luxury product where brand is the ma
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by chadash 7mo ago
^ this
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by chadash 7mo ago
The fish cursor is cute, but extremely annoying.
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by chadash 7mo ago
> Will LLMs be cheaper than humans once the subsidies for tokens go away? At this point we have little visibility to what the true cost of tokens is now, let alone what it will be in a few years time. It could be so cheap that we don’t

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