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I sorta expect the opposite. Anyone can build some small, niche SaaS themselves now. It's the giant, hulking behemoths (Salesforce, as one example) that can't be vibe-coded away ea…

Honestly, probably time to move off it regardless. Perhaps I visited the wrong subreddits but these days, whenever I show up, it's all largely AI slop. Or bot accounts, reposting t…

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The classifier runs Sonnet so I doubt it contributes too much.

Worth mentioning as I think at least a few of the commenters are mixing them up: auto mode is different from --dangerously-skip-permissions / YOLO mode. In auto mode, there's a cla…

I'd use a hook to forbid that.

There were so many comments[1][2][3] at the time saying that Uber has no moat, there’s no switching cost, the only value is the $3 rides, etc, etc. I suspect it’ll play out the sam…

Vietnam? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/asia/vietnam-traffi...

Wait, only six weeks ago? That's not long enough to be reporting success, genuinely. Come back in a few months, bare minimum. I'm far from a skeptic, but I've also personally had a…

Not quite what you asked, but I’ve swapped out a lot of paid software for open-source self-hosted software recently. I wouldn’t have started self-hosting if it wasn’t for Claude re…

Posts? Fair. But adverts? There is literally no reason they cannot all be human moderated. Every single one. People are paying to have their adverts placed. Put a small fee on each…

On the off-chance that you were searching in incognito (that's where I run into that the most), iOS now lets you pick a different search engine in incognito mode. Personally I use …

At one point it felt like Google search could never be unseated, then suddenly within six months or so, I barely use it. I'm not saying it's dead yet, nor do I know what Apple's ki…

A lot has changed, in fairness. Stalwart + LLMs can help with the full-time email administrator part. It's a lot easier than it was. And on the deliverability side, using SES for s…

This is just the old argument in favour of SaaS, though. The article is pointing out that those long-standing rules may no longer make sense, in a world where 1. it no longer takes…

I'd argue that raising a bunch of venture capital is what stopped them from being able to be a sustainable business. I paid for Plex for a long time but I no longer use it because …

Fair, I don’t know if this helps but it was Opus 4.8 (high effort) via Claude Desktop, but through my org’s LLM gateway so hard to compare really. But it’s usually pretty quick. (d…

Yes, but the original purpose of the benchmark (simonw, please correct me if I'm wrong!) was to test whether new models were good at novel problem solving. Things they haven't been…

Hm, or even a gambling site that uses real money but where you always get your money back, eventually.

Hey now, that’s a bit of a harsh way to talk about record labels. Sure most of the money you pay goes to the top performers, no matter what you actually listen to, but that doesn’t…

Don’t think so. I’m in BC, Canada.