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by nikcub 1y ago
> divorced from any kind of fundamentals Anthropic ARR went $1B -> $4B in the first half of this year. They're getting my $200 a month and it's easily the best money I spend. There's definitely something there.
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by nikcub 1y ago
> I get to stop hearing all of the same assumptions/theories/YouTuber said/"a guy I know got a leaked report"/etc in water cooler talk This was a really disappointing incident for aviation YouTube - I unsubs
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by nikcub 1y ago
Cursor see it coming - it's why they're moving to the web and mobile[0] The bigger issue is the advantage Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have in developing and deploying their own models. It wasn't that long ago that Cursor was
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by nikcub 1y ago
Cursor has the best tab completion model. I use it together with Claude Code. $20 Cursor Pro plan and $200 MAX Claude Code plan really is a great great pairing.
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by nikcub 1y ago
It is. From Australia's largest Toyota dealer I know that ~70% of new car sales are financed. A proportion of the rest would be funded by home equity but that is harder to measure. An interesting trend that I've heard from multipl
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by nikcub 1y ago
maybe not b2b saas since that has always been around service contracts - but a lot of those internal processes that currently run in excel are prime for AI mini-app replacement. this is delivering what no-code promised us.
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by nikcub 1y ago
This is where the fine-grained permissions of MCP and ability to disable individual tools win over calling cli tools
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by nikcub 1y ago
The key to running LLM services in prod is setting up Gemini in Vertex, Anthropic models on AWS Bedrock and OpenAI models on Azure. It's a completely different world in terms of uptime, latency and output performance.
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by nikcub 1y ago
> Companies like Squarespace set the bar much higher. Wix has always been a nightmare to use and customize. Funny - with a non-profit I help out I was so frustrated with our Squarespace site that I ended up replacing it with a custom sit
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by nikcub 1y ago
this should probably be OP - much better original story, not a reblog, and it's written by Michael Pollan.
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by nikcub 1y ago
Apologies I misread! Updated. I'll add - they do seem to do better with Go and Typescript (particularly Next and React) and are somewhat good with Python (although you need a clean project structure with nothing magic in it).
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by nikcub 1y ago
~~Counter~~ add to that - Armin Ronacher[0] (Flask, Sentry et al.), Charlie Marsh[1] (ruff, uv) and Jarred Sumner[2] (Bun) amongst others are tweeting extensively about their positive experiences with llm driven development. My experience
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by nikcub 1y ago
It's about 0.85% of Meta's market cap - less than the 1% they paid for (granted, all of) Instagram. They also paid about 1% of market cap for Oculus ($2b into a ~$220b market cap) Seems about par for Facebook when it comes to comp
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by nikcub 1y ago
I have zero faith in status pages. It's easier and more reliable to just check twitter. Heroku was down for _hours_ the other day before there was any mention of an incident - meanwhile there were hundreds of comments across twitter, h
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by nikcub 1y ago
I'd be curious what proportion of paid users ever switch models. I'd guess < 10%
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by nikcub 1y ago
fyi the price drop has been updated in Cursor: https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/1932484008816050492
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by nikcub 1y ago
/r/anime_titties on reddit. ignore the name, it helps it go incognito as a better current news / politics sub.
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by nikcub 1y ago
The new memory feature on Cursor is going to keep me locked in for the foreseeable future. It's _really_ good.
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Cursor Release v1.0(cursor.com)
3 points by nikcub 1y ago|0 comments
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by nikcub 1y ago
I expect the builder.ai story will break into the mainstream via a book / documentary. There are some insane details and it's the first large-scale AI hype failure - which people are hungry to get the details on - and some big nam
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by nikcub 1y ago
We don't know that Snowflake didn't miss out on neon - seems plausible (and silly for neon to not run an acquisition by Snowflake)
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by nikcub 1y ago
There is a professional gambler in Australia[0] who has the betting companies _compete_ for his business and offer him rebates on volume. His firm is double-digit percentage of the Australian betting market and employs ~hundreds of professi
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by nikcub 1y ago
https://archive.is/WWrtP
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They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the future of mountaineering?(nytimes.com)
97 points by nikcub 1y ago|188 comments
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by nikcub 1y ago
Following the public reporting timeline of builder.ai lays out a fascinating story akin to Theranos or Wework. I'm sure we'll get an exhaustive account of exactly what happen in due course, and there will likely be other such case
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by nikcub 1y ago
Congrats on the launch! Better Auth has a level of universal love from developers that's really seen. Just one suggestion - remove the F-bombs from the testimonials on your homepage. There are various firewall intel providers that will
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by nikcub 1y ago
Lots of regular people use Have I Been Pwned and sending them to 1Password is probably the single best thing you could do for them (I know it's a sponsorship - but it's a very complimentary one). I'd make the language around
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by nikcub 1y ago
The North Korean efforts are amateur compared to government intel ops either placing or recruiting employees at large tech firms.
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by nikcub 1y ago
Easy to miss in the announcement that 4.5 is being shut down > GPT‑4.5 Preview will be turned off in three months, on July 14, 2025
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by nikcub 2y ago
https://archive.is/isCpE

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