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"Are there more people whose work on a project has been taken away by AI bots?"

Yes. I've had 2 clients do similar to what you described, so I have stopped working with them completely (one of them subsequently deleted their production database).

Another agreed for me to do an audit where I found severe vulnerabilities, including anyone having admin access, being able to set their own price during checkout, leaking PII etc.

Another is doing an AI in business course and wants to recreate their app using "N8N and ChatGBT". Thankfully, they have heeded my warnings - for now.

I've worked for some of these clients for over a decade, so I have a very low tolerance if they chose not to trust my professional opinion.

This feels like a cheap trick to drive users towards Claude Code. It's likely no coincidence that this happened at the same time they announced subscription access to Claude Code.

The Windsurf team repeatedly stated that they're running at a loss so all this seems to have achieved is giving OpenAI an excuse to cut their 3rd party costs and drive more Windsurf users towards their own models.

Very useful. I just tried it with my spare racquet, and it seems about right. I have always wondered if my main racquet has lost tension, so it'll be really useful for that.

For making money, I'd suggest reaching out to professional re-stringers and asking if they want to advertise (once you have some nice analytics to brag about). Maybe even localise them based on geolocation data so you can have more re-stringers without cluttering it up. It's a value-add to your users so everyone should be happy.

You could probably even reach out to some YouTubers (I personally like BadmintonInsight). Since it's free, I would imagine some of them would do a video on it just to help their viewers.

Wow that hits hard.

Anyone that resonates with that letter, please speak to someone. If you're a male in the UK there's Andy's man club[0], which is just a group of normal guys who chat about life - including mental health. You'll hear first hand how close a lot of them came to tapping out but made it through and are glad they did. No matter how bleak it seems, there is a route to something that resembles happiness... you might just need a helping hand from others to get there.

[0] https://andysmanclub.co.uk/

The article heavily emphasises the point that having the "smartest" AI isn't a moat, it's the experience and integrations that build the moat. That's exactly why Cursor is more popular than Aider.

Your code becomes training data[0]:

When you use Unpaid Services, including, for example, Google AI Studio and the unpaid quota on Gemini API, Google uses the content you submit to the Services and any generated responses to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine learning technologies, including Google's enterprise features, products, and services, consistent with our Privacy Policy.

[0] https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms

I believe Jetbrains' built in models work like that but unfortunately they force you to disable any competing AI chat plugins so you lose out on access to Claude etc. if you use them.

Serverless just means it spins up a server on demand so I doubt there will be additional latency beyond the initial connection phase. The advantage of this is that it lets you host your own VPN only when you need it, so you don't need to pay for a subscription. For serious VPN users, Mullvad and co would likely be the better choice.

As someone who only occasionally uses VPNs, this is great and I will be purchasing.

OpenAI was the anonymous buyer: https://x.com/dharmesh/status/1854307883304792294

Copy & paste for those who can't visit Twitter:

BREAKING NEWS: Secret acquirer of $15+ million domain chat .com revealed and it's exactly who you'd think.

For those of you that have been following me for a while, you may recall that I announced earlier this year that I had acquired the domain chat .com for an "8 figure sum" (which was later reported as being $15.5M).

I also shared that I had sold the domain to an undisclosed buyer.

I was not at liberty to share who the acquirer was (I was going to leave that to them, when they were ready).

Well, in a 8 character tweet (talk about brevity), Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI revealed that they were the buyer. If you visit the website now, it goes to ChatGPT.

It's not nearly as helpful as Claude.ai - it seems to only want to do the minimum required. On top of that it will quite regularly ignore what you've asked, give you back the exact code you gave it, or even generate syntactically invalid code.

It's amazing how much difference the prompt must make because using it is like going back to gpt3.5 yet it's the same model.

"Futuresearch estimates that their API business actually has ~50% gross margins, and that most of the losses come from operating costs (R&D, etc) and their ChatGPT business, which gives basically unlimited usage for ~$20/month."

I would have assumed there's more profit in the subscriptions than the API. $20 is roughly 2 million output tokens a month through the API. Given the 50% margin they claim, each user would have to be generating 3-4 million output tokens a month for OpenAI to be at a loss. Is that likely? Seems like a lot of words to me.