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> keeping track of time and tasks Amazing how many software engineers don't do this and continue to fool themselves into thinking they're faster with AI. If only more people would …

Writing out my nod of appreciation to counterbalance some of the negativity. I do enjoy the effort and thought you into this essay. I didn’t read the whole thing, just a few sectio…

About half of US households don’t have any retirement at all. Making their point that “shareholders” are a distinct class separate from the whole of the population.

Yes, DeepSeek is open-weight, but these third-party providers offering similar prices are subsidized with VC money as well. And you can find a range of prices for deepseek-v4-flash…

Aren’t DeepSeek models deliberately priced lower than the cost to deliver? They’re subsidized which means the true cost is more than $0.2/Mtok.

Unless your insider is the CFO, I wouldn’t trust these sources to have the access, knowledge, or insight to determine whether they’re running inference at a profit. Simple test: ca…

I say the following not to brag but to offer up some more perspective for you: you’re comp is in the lower-mid range of the market. Comp was there for remote, startup eng positions…

None of these projects sound like weeks worth of scope w/o AI.

Thanks for point-by-point. Your first two quotes are about targeting in the Iraq War; specifically how the breakdown in careful analysis, precipitated by the new systems, led to th…

Friend, TFA commonly refers to the effing article that’s posted for discussion. EDIT: The irony that GP then goes on the quote TFA and not NYT.

You’re acting like the U.S. government is a monolithic good faith actor right now. The current administration’s behavior is qualitatively different than past administrations. Do yo…

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-m... > An ongoing [United States] military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadl…

So I read the entire TFA, where do you see “quotes [from] those in the know who believe this should have been eliminated as a target”? I saw no such quotes about the school in TFA.…

How much did this cost? Has there ever been an engineering focus on performance for liquid? It’s certainly cool, but the optimizations are so basic that I’d expect a performance en…

Mind linking the project so we can see the PR’s?

Apologies, I may have misinterpreted the passage below from your repo: > This crate was developed with the assistance of Claude Opus 4.5 initially to answer the shower thought "wou…

First, very cool! Thank you for sharing some actual projects with the prompts logged. I think you and I have different definitions of “one-shotting”. If the model has to be steered…

Weird, I broke Opus 4.5 pretty easily by giving some code, a build system, and integration tests that demonstrate the bug. CC confidently iterated until it discovered the issue. CC…

Good points - admittedly, I didn’t put enough effort into building connections through different pipelines back when I was contracting. Upwork and a few personal connections were m…

Are you a one-person shop? How do you find clients?

Very interesting, thanks for sharing! Looks like you have considerable experience with vibe coding to be able to produce that in 2 hours.

I’m well aware of what Google does and their AI strategy ;)

Would you mind sharing the repo?

Cool, that potential 5x cost improvement just got delivered this year. A company can continue running the previous generation until EOL, or take a hit by writing off the residual v…

> It's that we're paying more for objectively worse service than we had a decade ago. > I'm not asking for magic, I'm asking where went the reliability we already had, at the price…