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I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Re: I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Post by wongarsu »

thih9 wrote: post #16

> Half an hour and fifty dollars later, I realized I had spent fifty dollars on this, and that this was not sustainable because, if anything, the code was getting more and more buggy the more Claude fixed it. Off topic, this has been my experience with AI so often that it prevents me from exploring AI uses more. I liked Cursor’s “auto” plan but that now seems gone. I’d happily switch to a provider that offers a simil…

It's difficult to offer unlimited usage of something that's so expensive to run. OP could have used a $20/month Claude or Cursor plan for "unlimited" usage within their quota had they been willing to use a different model than the $75/Million Token Opus 4

Re: I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Post by bluGill »

jon-wood wrote: post #13
WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #2

If you use such a thing on a regular kind of meeting that happens over zoom or similar, your arm will atrophy and fall off from having to hold that thing for the duration. The only remedy I see is to give everyone such a contraption and make it mandatory.

Back in the day when phones of this style were the only ones available we learned to hold the handset between our shoulder and our ear, leaving both hands free for other things.

That was one of the things they considered when they designed phones. A lot of money was spent on ergonomics getting this "right". Of course we now know a lot more about ergonomics today, but they did the best they could and did a great job considering.

Re: I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Post by nkrisc »

WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #2

If you use such a thing on a regular kind of meeting that happens over zoom or similar, your arm will atrophy and fall off from having to hold that thing for the duration. The only remedy I see is to give everyone such a contraption and make it mandatory.

There were countless products available when I was a kid that were meant to make holding a handset between your ear and shoulder comfortable.

Re: I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Post by stavros »

wongarsu wrote: post #21
thih9 wrote: post #16

> Half an hour and fifty dollars later, I realized I had spent fifty dollars on this, and that this was not sustainable because, if anything, the code was getting more and more buggy the more Claude fixed it. Off topic, this has been my experience with AI so often that it prevents me from exploring AI uses more. I liked Cursor’s “auto” plan but that now seems gone. I’d happily switch to a provider that offers a simil…

It's difficult to offer unlimited usage of something that's so expensive to run. OP could have used a $20/month Claude or Cursor plan for "unlimited" usage within their quota had they been willing to use a different model than the $75/Million Token Opus 4

I would have, had I realized how much it would cost.

Re: I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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Post by stavros »

thih9 wrote: post #16

> Half an hour and fifty dollars later, I realized I had spent fifty dollars on this, and that this was not sustainable because, if anything, the code was getting more and more buggy the more Claude fixed it. Off topic, this has been my experience with AI so often that it prevents me from exploring AI uses more. I liked Cursor’s “auto” plan but that now seems gone. I’d happily switch to a provider that offers a simil…

For an update, Codex has been massively better for me. I should probably give it another go, especially now with Codex Max, as it has been much better at not getting stuck like this. Give it a go if you get the chance, although with the general caveat that people have massively different experiences with LLMs, for some reason.

I think maybe it has to do something with the prompting style, my hypothesis is that some people's prompting styles fit certain LLMs better. I don't know how else to explain the fact that my very experienced friends prefer Sonnet to Codex, for example, whereas I had the opposite experience.

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