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Abby_101

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About Abby_101

Software engineer in Australia. I build interactive simulators for technical concepts at pythonalchemist.com — things like binary search, recommendation systems, and LLM architectures. Background in Python, FastAPI, React.

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    Comment #47924536

    Built credit pricing into my SaaS for AI features and the hardest part wasn't the math, it was that customers can't easily predict their own usage. They underuse and feel cheated, …

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    Comment #47918439

    The constraint I'd add for solo SaaS is "can I find one beta user this week." Time, scope, tech all stayed reasonable on my one pager but a project can pass those filters and still…

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    Comment #47901491

    The "garbage facts in, garbage briefs out" caveat is the part I'd want stress tested. In my own LLM features the context that decays fastest is what agents wrote without a human gl…

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    Comment #47877974

    Half the work of pricing a solo SaaS is modeling what a bad month looks like if egress or IOPS spike. You end up pricing defensively to protect against your own infra bill instead …

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    Comment #47877691

    The over-editing cost is asymmetric when you're solo. If an agent rewrites 50 lines when you asked it to touch 5, there's no second reviewer behind you. You're the writer and the r…

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    Comment #47867084

    Sort of - there's Qwen3-Coder and the Codestral family, but those are still multi-language, just code-focused. For truly single-language specialization, the practical path is fine-…

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