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I watched my PCP read the Google AI summary to me in office when I asked a question about my visit about a year ago... I'd rather just use my Claude sub at this point than pay $180 for 10 minutes of interaction. AI should be disruptive in this space, but it's a walled garden and I feel like they will do everything to avoid disruption.
So a breach occurs and they recommend people rotate keys? But they claim fraud and break everyone's access with existing keys?

Why anyone uses their services, or even the harness product at this point is beyond me. They just shill cheap and crappy models for training and make boneheaded decisions and "mistakes".

The magic is a tropical tasting fruit! I have a tree and it's tough to actually get one of the fruits when they are ripe. This year I got lucky with a few that feel into my fenced garden section and I got them before the critters.
Re:GLM-5.3-Flash on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:27PM (#49457293)
I can't get 3.8 to exit thinking loops. It will just think and think and think on the most trivial topics. I wanted it to port a speed test powershell script to c#. Claude opus 5 completes it under 60 seconds. I let 3.8 churn about 6 different times for 30+ minutes and it never wrote a single line of code to disk. It wrote lots of lines in thinking.

Any tips?

Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:47PM (#48727251)
Sure, I understand the subsidization. Their limits are practically unusable and the marketing of "Focused working sessions for regular coding, review, research, and analysis throughout the week." is pretty disingenuous then.
Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:31PM (#48708896)
I have been using the coplay MCP for Unity.
Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:31PM (#48708882)
Not sure if you meant Fable/Mythos instead of Opus, but I can comfortable work several hours a day using Opus on Max-Ultracode on the CC 10x.
Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models on Saturday June 27, 2026 @02:03PM (#48700342)
I tried the Fugu models with some real world tales in C# and unity using mcp and open code. I exhausted the $20 plan 5 hour window in one prompt to review my theme system and plan some color changes. So I upgraded to the $100 to see the implementation and result. Well the result was worse than Opus, incredibly slow, and I ended up exhausting the new 5 hour window and have used 35% of the weekly now and it hardly created something opus was able to do at a fraction of the time and cost.

Do what you wish with this info, but it seems to be a complete waste of $$.

Re:Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses on Saturday May 23, 2026 @09:48AM (#48247661)
Yup I run Max only now. It's closer to the "old" Claude but still nerfed in my opinion.
Re:Why Walmart still doesn't support Apple Pay on Monday January 19, 2026 @09:26PM (#46687162)
Yes they 100% associate the card number with your account if it's on file. I have never used Walmart pay and use my physical card only. The strange thing I've noticed is that there is a failure rate of probably 20% where it doesn't associate me.
I'm in a similar boat but with Telegram.
Re:State of the Fin 2026-01-06 – Jellyfin on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:05AM (#46527177)
I don't understand the jellyfin hype tbh. Every year I spin it up to test and am always disappointed. If you only consume your media on a web browser, then 100% recommend jellyfin. If you consume on anything else the apps are bare bones and seriously lacking, potentially not even existing. I despise the frequent and ugly Plex UI changes they push out, but the app works on every device and TV brand I've had.

The take away is the app ecosystem needs some serious bolstering. That's the holdup for most people I know who are still sticking with Plex.

Re:Odoo: Open-Source ERP on Sunday January 04, 2026 @10:30AM (#46488881)
Yup, came here to offer the same sentiment on the SMB ERP systems I've worked with.
Re:AI agents are starting to eat SaaS on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:05AM (#46275427)
I feel that large corps have guard rails that will limit this from happening. For SMB's, this is not a new problem. Gritty IT guys have been doing this for decades. I inherit these bootstrapped reporting systems all the time. The issue is when that person leaves, it is no longer maintainable. I've yet to come across a customer who has had any sort of usable documentation. The process then repeats itself when I take over, and presumably when I'm finished. With a SaaS product, you are at least paying for some support and visibility of the processes. I'm not really trying to make a point other than this is not a new, but still intriguing problem, and not sure that LLMs will be some god answer, as the organizations have trouble determining what they even need.
Definitely not to skirt auto play and screen off issues ;) fun to see this is still a problem being solved. A friend and I made the same thing 10 years ago. We opted to force the screen on and play the videos to stay "legit". Explored licensing music for monetization and there was a mid 5 figure minimum to bootstrap so the project died.
Ripping the video to s3, naughty naughty. Be expecting your YouTube API key to be revoked and DMCA.
Maybe the few that were WFH prior to AI. I just calculated my carbon output for commuting and going to lunch daily versus WFH and using AI and it's wayyy less. Let's all save earth, stay home and use AI.
Re:Two new PebbleOS watches on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:14PM (#43403650)
I might be missing something, but how do you specify color options for the Core Time 2?
Re:The New York Stock Exchange to Launch NYSE Texas on Friday February 14, 2025 @11:00PM (#43055793)
Have a link to the episode?
Not the same. Bootstrap Studio is a stand alone design tool. This is a framework to be integrated into an app.
Re:I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled on Thursday January 09, 2025 @10:21AM (#42646512)
Not just random biloilerplate/framework code either. A framework his dad created. So with this logic his dad did the majority of the project.
Re:DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:02PM (#42541598)
Same :( been using it the last few months as my daily driver.
Re:Query Apple's FindMy Network with Python on Saturday December 21, 2024 @10:00AM (#42480052)
You could definitely use meshtastic devices to do this
How does this compare to Dexie js and Dexie cloud?
Both. I use bitwarden with yubikey.
I received the email saying i was included. I use a PW manager.
Re:Protecting Your Roku Account on Friday April 12, 2024 @05:18PM (#40017774)
I call BS on this. I just received the email that state:

> There is no indication that Roku’s systems have been compromised or that the login credentials used in the attack were obtained from Roku.

I use a PW manager, they didn't get these credentials from another source.

eh not really, for me it was the fact it took forever to implement some of the features. I also don't use the address much or any of their other features so was looking for a cheaper solution.
Their policy states that free accounts will be deleted if not active for 6 months.
I literally just migrated from Proton yesterday. Oh well, Tuta now i guess...

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