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by muzani 1y ago
Job boards suck. Once, a company rejected me on a job board but had actually contacted me via HN - they quickly changed the status from failed to in interviews to avoid confusion. Another time, the job board rejected me half a month after I
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by muzani 1y ago
Loss leaders are valuable too. Android is a loss leader that funnels half the world into their exorbitant Google Pay + Play Store ecosystem.
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by muzani 1y ago
It seemingly does. It's part of their enterprise offering, which they can use to upsell other things like GDocs and company GDrive. GDocs is also notoriously bad with search. As bad as it is, it's still the best out there that m
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by muzani 1y ago
A popular programmer once messaged me on LinkedIn, said he appreciated my comment, and asked me for a link to my blog. I think that's how you do it in this day and age. Just find people who say clever things and dig around to see if th
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by muzani 1y ago
I still want a to do list app that I like. Something compact like Workflowy, not the card-bloat that vibe coding adds. Something AI-aided, so I can take a photo of a recipe book and it'll add the ingredients. Or I can tell it what I wa
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by muzani 1y ago
Americans are not necessarily expensive in this day and age. Maybe the ones in the big cities are, but international salaries are rising up to match. Plus, they might be happier with a lower salary in a lower cost of living, especially if t
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by muzani 1y ago
Sounds about right. I used to consult. The briefing was that we were a bulletproof vest. We hired a ton of people. I didn't know what they did, but the boss told us that their jobs was mainly seat filling. I remember Saudi cutting fund
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by muzani 1y ago
Opus seems like overkill. o3 is probably the most accurate and cost-effective at the cost of a little creativity.
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by muzani 1y ago
Luxury in general. You're paying money to impress someone but they are generally unimpressed because you're paying money to impress them.
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by muzani 1y ago
Why do people hire them though? Surely at that price they can hire an individual consultant.
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by muzani 1y ago
Yes, a vertical saas will have many of the same features. If they didn't have the feature, people would just buy the horizontal. Slack does not come bundled with a spreadsheet and word processor though. MS Teams does - that's your
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by muzani 1y ago
Similar with CMS. They're bloated because they try to do everything for everyone.
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by muzani 1y ago
Vertical is deep, specialized. Horizontal is broad, workflows, teams. MS teams is horizontal. Send files, real time chat, channels based around access. Integral with general tools like Office and thus you're paying for more. Slack is m
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by muzani 1y ago
They and Anthropic wipe credits after a year, even with use. Yes, paid credits have an expiry.
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by muzani 1y ago
They're tools. To a fluent tool user, the negative anecdotes sound like, "I prefer typewriters over word processors because it's easier to correct mistakes." "I don't own any forks because knives are just bette
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by muzani 1y ago
It's a joke obviously, but the deeper point is context is extremely important. In the pre-AI days, we'd budget 3 months for someone to get the context of the codebase and the product. These days, it's still 2-4 weeks. You can
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by muzani 1y ago
Yes, and senior is supposed to be the highest rank of IC. But at some point, people gave this advice to call yourself a consultant instead of a freelancer... and it worked. So we have to live with this new term, and so do actual consultants
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by muzani 1y ago
It's remarkable how good you have to be at tech to be low tech and low maintenance.
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by muzani 1y ago
There's the Tokens tab on the mid-right, which is more detailed pricing. Not all tokens are the same price. But the Usage at the top is a clear view too. On Claude sonnet-thinking, you've used $10 worth. 10k input (your prompt and
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by muzani 1y ago
Fragrantica is one of those few websites I'd say is 110% correct. Not only does it confirm my experiences, it actually enlightens. I was perplexed at why this coconut perfume doesn't smell very much like coconut - turns out it was
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by muzani 1y ago
All raw events > View > Tokens tab Most of the tokens are cache read and cache write. It's possible that it's searching the whole codebase with these. My guess is they're embeddings tokens which are substantially cheape
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by muzani 1y ago
Even if I want to do it myself, I'll ask it to write it a plan and toss it in a markdown file. It gave me a shit plan today. Basically I asked it to refactor a block of prototype code that consisted of 40 files or so. It went the wrong
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by muzani 1y ago
From what I see, you have to get your claude.md instructions right, and most of it is using planning mode. The CLI is exactly how you interact with it. It's less vibe code and what I'd call supervisory code. It's less about w
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by muzani 1y ago
nice try, soham
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by muzani 1y ago
You can have one. You just don't have to drive it every day.
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by muzani 1y ago
If they want to turn it into a game, I'll play the game. Back when they were tracking it, I would split a PR into as many commits as possible and put in a commit on the weekends too so it that it would show me committing 7 days/we
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by muzani 1y ago
It reminds me of that time when Sam Altman posted "Her" on X and then was sued by Scarlett Johansson. They love being cryptic.
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It's like cookies. Eventually they'll stop when they realize the consumer doesn't want it /s
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by muzani 1y ago
It's outdated advice in 2025 IMO. 1) We had this methodology for over a decade now. Most of the business models that work with this have been mined out. The features that increase customer sales by 2-3x are the ones that nobody asked f
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by muzani 1y ago
HN is one of the worse places to keep up with it. It gets buried fast due to the comment vs upvote ratio. Just about every other social media is better - reddit, LinkedIn, FB groups, X, YouTube, TikTok, Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram. In terms

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