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Similar take by Levels.fyi: https://www.levels.fyi/atlas

Their text output often includes more emojis and seems formatted better. Also their image models subjectively looks better than the rest.

This fits with my impression of the 'personality' of various models: Meta: Perceptive (strong vision) Gemini: Fastest Claude: Smartest OpenAI: Prettiest

This is exactly why we built https://www.levels.fyi Too often people were getting down-leveled because they didn't know any better. The level comparisons we show on the homepage co…

This really is a demonstration of Google's principle belief in Zero-trust security: https://cloud.google.com/learn/what-is-zero-trust?hl=en (I think) they pioneered this area.

I recently learned that on RDS you can import data from S3. Handy feature for accomplishing similar goal: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...

We deploy currently on AWS so that's not changing. It's just the framework that needs to be changed :)

Appreciate it! We're still on nextjs. Will def put a blogpost together as we optimize / move away. Thankfully, AI makes large-scale mostly repetitive migrations like these much sim…

The biggest facepalm moment I had was when we switched Levels.fyi from gulp.js to next.js. Our pagespeed, hosting costs, etc all took a significant hit. We're experiencing the same…

Same. Terrible mistake. My mini overheats like crazy now.

Related: How Levels.fyi scaled to millions of users with Google Sheets as a backend https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-...

I was hopping between a few canvas tools recently. Primarily tldraw & excalidraw for some quick spec work. Was surprised to see that both don't have better support or even apps for…

Letter from congress here: https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/08272...

Never heard of Are.na but their aesthetic / interface reminds me a lot of Notion. Given its been around for longer, I wonder if they were inspiration for Notion.

I find the produce prices often to be absurdly lower. These items are cheaper to begin with but if you're making fresh food consistently then it probably adds up. The biggest diffe…

Related paulg tweet: https://x.com/paulg/status/1951996478555357530 "The Trump administration has suspended the funding of Terence Tao and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathem…

Levels.fyi | Backend & Frontend Engineer | Remote (India, Open to other countries) | Full-time | https://www.levels.fyi | $30-50k USD Levels.fyi's mission is to help every professi…

I would wager most of their revenue is from the subscriptions - both consumer and business. That pricing is detached from the API pricing. The heavy emphasis on applications more r…

Levels.fyi | Backend & Frontend Engineer | Remote (India, Open to other countries) | Full-time | https://www.levels.fyi | $30-60k USD Levels.fyi's mission is to help every professi…