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Cloud is so cheap and quick. I use local too but my api bill is like 3 quid a month. You would have to be very cheap or have compliance needs to tolerate the error gap

i researched and experimented with edibles after beign diagnosed with CVD.

i don't beleive edibles are any safer

Yeah this was a big one for me, weed has lots of little knock on impact into other CV risk factors

this is true of most risk factors though, diet, excercise, relationships, work , all suffer under stress. it's the job of medical reseach to sift this stuff as best they can.

shocked that an engineer would not mention user numbers or revenue growth in their analysis

My anecdote is there was a single wave of cuts and a bit of a shuffle, but for most part it's business as normal now

It doesn’t sound like the author has a real business?

This is a common problem with devs - they don’t understand how code fits into a business model, and generally massively underestimate non technical elements such as focus and sales

I was a heavy quest user but I think it ruined my eyes a bit and I needed glasses after having 20 20. Could be standard aging but the correlation was very strong

The real point of home ownership is control, you have complete ownership and responsibility which comes with pros and cons.

I used to love renting but now value the control above all else. I suspect having kids is the largest factor in the shift

The code is less buggy , on average. You're overestimating the average developer.

the reality is my business continues to operate at higher efficiency, even with the bugs.

i don't think it's 'our side' that has the psychosis.

Google seems to own a bit of everyone.

My use is not relevant. It's not ideal to extrapolate from your own personal habits. cursor's user volume and growth is the important thing

It's an interesting idea that society should somehow prevent companies valuation being linked to how many people use their product.

Unsure how it would work in practice.

It's fine to care about different stuff, but if you want to understand the valuation of a company, then your experience only goes so far. it's not going to make any sense unless you broaden your scope of interest to the metrics that impact valuation.

It's not 'the' most important question.

  you've formed an opinion on the value of the company without knowing how many users it has? Kind of proves my point, no?

Because of user count? Same was said about instagram. with all due respect, devs don't seem to understand business

The person at the desk told the author this?

Interesting how unquestioning the responses are that this isn’t engagement bait

Advertising works

It’s easy to learn it’s just boring. Spend half your time marketing from day one. Be strict about it

A good habit is to ask for devils advocate opposite reply

That’s a separate excercise in most cases. Obtaining the cert is it’s in excercise and not sticky a security excercise

I’d be amazed if the companies were entirely oblivious to this.

In my experience it’s we know that they know that we know that they know …..

Building software is only a small part of any endeavour, be it a website, a PR stunt or a career.

there is no shame in just doing the building software bit. but it does sound like you've built it up to be more than it is

I'm an amateur and would never let AI touch a live database....

It doesn't feel like speech recognition has been improving at the same rate as other generative AI. It had a big jump up to about 6% WER a year or two ago, but it seems to have plateaued. Am I just using the wrong model? Or is human level error rate, some kind of limit, which I estimate to be about 5%.

That's very interesting to hear. I didn't know that.

I don't know what to tell you. It still works. Personally, I get about 30 job applicants a day, about 2 of which are from real people, which are consistently filtered into my inbox by the subject line keyword I state clearly in the online job description. The spam content is ever improving in terms of relevance. But it's success rate of beating this filter hasn't changed at all.

AI bots are designed to pray and spray, essentially. Customizing the message doesn't change the fact. They're not designed to scan a job spec or article, look for a secret keyword and insert it into the subject line. They could do that, of course, but they don't. Not in March 2026, at least.

If the author wanted to only receive emails from real people, I would bet a lot of money that this trick would be very effective. Whether those real humans are also on the scam is a different question, but they would be humans who had taken the time to read the blog, that's for sure. which, based on the evidence presented, are not the problem.

So yeah, I don't really care if you ignore me or believe me or not, but if anyone is suffering from a similar problem, a simple request to insert a secret into the subject is very effective at proving you are human. I'd recommend giving it a try.

anyway, got to go read a book!

It chugs if I launch a node server yes but that's an outlying use case for an 8gb air.

AI is so good these days I am using the laptop for quick changes more often, as I just push every change. I rarely need to fiddle. The general experience of using my desktop and laptop are converging.