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Lots of humans use AI to draft emails. I see it all over the business world. I would assume it's real sentiment and respond accordingly. They likely wrote something real and had AI polish it.

I generally produce nearly the same code I'd write myself about 5x faster with AI. I don't just let Claude Code run wild for a long time and have a mess to review. I have it do small chunks I can quickly review, give it feedback, iterate, etc until I like the output, then I move on to the next step. This takes time of course but I've found it faster than reviewing a giant mess of a code review.

I was just listening to a Sanderson interview. He's annoyed by it too. It's his publisher wanting the books to be easy to get into. He's dealing with it in Mistborn era 3 where's he's trying to figure out how to re-explain everything and it's annoying him because he just wants to show allomancers doing cool stuff.

The $100 plans are plenty for me to use nearly all day. I'm using between $1500-3000 worth of tokens a month via those plans.

I definitely see the pricing model. I can afford $100, maybe $200, but not $3000.

Because human beings are irrational and want "apps". I have numerous examples of native apps that are just wrappers around the web app performing extremely well (massively increasing conversion rates, revenue, etc) over the existing PWA.

Nothing in our product runs on AI but productivity would slow down for sure.

I've synced 20 years of Gmail to a local Thunderbird via imap. The initial sync took a few days but it was pretty simple to set up.

Not usually.

I've had AI slow me down twice.

Once, it was just failing to build simple flows for complex business logic getting added to existing complex business logic. It was more efficient for me to just spend a few hours and handcode it to get clean code.

Second time is partially my fault. I had a spec with about 10 stages. I let it run stage 1 and it got overzealous and finished the project. Reviewing, tweaking, and testing the massive change took me several days. I should have just wiped it and started over. It would have been much faster. I had maxed out my weekly usage already so I didn't want to redo it.

They're probably tracking click throughs and what placement you saw, what AB tests were visible, etc.

Laws like this are a good idea but its too burdensome for small companies so it cripples innovations and small businesses. Only applying it to larger companies let's it apply to only the companies who have the largest impact and also can afford compliance, while not stifling small businesses. Not perfect but I think it's a decent tradeoff.

That's the tradeoff for allowing smaller companies flexibility to thrive without being swamped in regulations and fees.

Laws like this really need to only be enforced for companies of certain sizes.

Companies like to reduce risk and unknowns. Paying $500/mo for Git that is run by somebody else is predictable. Having your self hosted Git potentially go down and block releases, block hot fixes, block that big marketing launch, etc is not a risk you want looming over your head because it's not predictable.

Advancing through technical ranks does not qualify one for management. It qualifies them for more technical stuff.

Are you taking leadership responsibilities? Leading your team, mentoring others, representing your team in broader meetings with other teams, helping with planning, etc. Doing that stuff probably means you stop doing technical stuff.

All my slightly-technical friends refer to AI coding as Claude

Apparently. The price does seem high, but the value of a company is based on it's finances. You could argue companies like Google are just middlemen too.

Their business models are actually kind of similar. Stripe is just passing money between financial institutions and taking a small cut. OpenRouter is basically the same thing. They might have shared ability on how to run an effective pass through business.

10% would be more typical. Perhaps the math is that OpenRouter inside Stripe makes it twice as valuable. You often see acquisitions priced on the value of the company post-acquisition.

Countries like Canada and Russia will gain from global warming. Sea shipping lanes previously frozen over half the year will be available year round. Areas previously too cold to farm will now be warm enough to farm. So they'll be gaining agricultural land while existing countries lose agricultural land.

I honestly haven't really noticed a difference in ads after switching to the Lite version. It seems to work well enough.

I've noticed Opus 5 repeatedly ignored my Claude.md in several ways. Particularly when it comes to verbosity of comments in code.

It sounded like a temporary situation until they get a second EU datacenter.

This is how we used to grade labs when I was a TA in college. Students worked in groups of two and showed up with a working project to get graded. Afterwards, we'd ask the two students questions and it was extremely obvious if one or both of them didn't work on it.

You are quite incorrect. I make a living off a website and 99.9% of my traffic is from bots. Literally hundreds of millions of requests from bots. The cost of bots is worth the cost of not harming legit users.

I suppose it would depend, yeah. I find having paying customers being blocked to be completely unacceptable. Not only is a bad customer experience, but they tend to be very vocal about it. Posting online, leaving bad reviews, etc.

There are false positives. Every time I've used a tool like this, I get reports from my users about it blocking their access. It's especially bad for users who use privacy oriented browsers like Brave or use VPNs.

For a personal site where you don't care about 0.1% of your users getting blocked, it's probably fine. For a business, blocking some of your paying customers isn't acceptable.

Yeah this is one of those things that hurts some real users and AI scrapers have figured out how to bypass. Not worth it IMO.

I was wondering when something like this would happen. It's been relatively simple to do for a while now.

It's not abnormal for people to disrespect robots.txt

Meta not only ignored my robots.txt but they hit me with 1k requests per second sometimes.

BingBot is doing something weird. Based on the logs I see, it feels like their crawler is trying to reverse engineer my public facing APIs and scrape those directly.

I've got my old Intel MacBook in my workshop. It works great for Fusion 360 which is fairly intense. I don't code on it anymore though.

Having run massive code bases on average laptops before, I think you'd be fine. It might just take longer to index and compile.