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I think it really depends on your personality. I work with people in their late thirties that are refreshed by a long weekend with very little sleep in Ibiza, and would probably die of dread at the idea of spending a week doing nothing.

Meanwhile, I'm about to spend ten days in the french mountains, and I hope to do nothing more than read books and go for long quiet walks.

We just cancelled everyone's plans and rolled liteLLM out internally. We kept it for the insanely cheap tokens, but now that they've switched to the new pricing, they're just like openrouter, just with far fewer models.

My first introduction to the blog was through his Lord of the Rings Siege of Gondor serie, and I've been a Patreon supporter ever since. It's well worth the time.

AI is more like a union that controls the entire labour pool. I'm one out of a few million developers. I've got very limited bargaining power. I can't withdraw my labour because I need it to make rent and buy food. My cost has a very predictable ceiling.

On the other hand, there's two AI labs, that could afford to eat your profit, because what are you gonna do? They're your entire labour force.

I'm apparently a former professional soccer player too, but I can't find my alter-ego anywhere using the classic search engines.

Interestingly, the only other person with my (very french) first name and (very spanish) surname is also a software engineer, but in Côte d'Ivoire. What were the odds?

Again, trying to literally count calories sucks and is demotivating. Setting up a rigid template for a week and then using it as a basic guide is sustainable and fun.

I lost a huge amount of weight when I was younger (From above 100 kg to 60 kg). I then added 15 kg back slowly, about 1 kg a month, while working out.

The most important thing I learned is that motivation is worth approximately nothing. It comes and it goes. It eventually becomes a job in itself to find it. If you base anything on it being fun and you being motivated, you'll fail.

What's free and sustainable is discipline. You don't weight and log your food because it's motivating and fun, you just do it. It's like brushing your teeth, it's something you have done for so long that it'd feel weird not to.

I don't think I've enjoyed squatting once in the last two years. I dread any session that involves squatting, but if it's gym day, I go to the gym, and if it's squat day, then I squat.

You have to accept that losing weight and gaining strength are generally antagonistic goals. You won't hit personal bests, you may even see the numbers go down, but as long as you have adequate protein intake and enough stimulus, your muscle mass should mostly be preserved, and what little you lost will be back as soon as you're back to eating at maintenance or at a light surplus.

2000kcal is about 1.5kg of chicken breasts, or 2.3kg of potatoes. Vegetables are broadly not worth counting, as you likely won't be able to eat enough to make a difference.

That's a huge amount of food.

Gosh, it used to be £3 not that long ago. About £5 for a wrap at Prêt if I couldn't be bothered to go fight with the tourists to cross the road down Kingsway.

The other option is the one that kills palestinians, and we don't even get free models out of it.

As always, the US has a government removing red tape to foster innovation, while China has a regime, unfairly picking winners, to hurt and subvert the West.

We've been through it over and over. "Tesla is not a car company it's a X company" where X is the current trending theme.

So far, Tesla has been a blockchain, energy, robotics, and now a compute company.

My daughter is about to enter "group 2". The starkest difference with the system back home is the level of autonomy they have. Most of what they seem to do revolve around working together autonomously.

They're expected to group themselves, to collaborate, to solve their conflicts, while the teacher acts as a facilitator that will give them the keys to succeed on their own.

After-school care is similar. The assistants are there to supervise, not to animate or entertain. They'll make sure your kid survives until 5, the rest is up to them.

This attitude carries over outside of school. Kids are trusted to go out in the neighborhood. As soon as the sun shines, the park under my flat turns into a gigantic playground from 14h to 20h, with no adults in sight.

Go for a walk during King's day, and you'll see a ton of kids managing a stall of their own design by themselves.

I've seen people miss the tractor wheel with a hammer at my gym. I didn't even know if was physically possible.

I use DSv4 through opencode. I use it from deepseek directly, not through a third-party platform.

I mostly do C# and some frontend. I was starting to feel really depressed and unengaged at work because I was starting to use AI far too much like a magic slot machine. I'm now making a conscious effort to go back to using it as a tool used a bit more deliberately.

I'm not even using the pro model. The flash version is fast so I can keep it interactive rather than context switching to reddit while the model is working, and it turns out using my brain means I don't really need the model to be that smart.

I spent about $1.5 this week.

US have guardrails, China have censorship.

US have fair tax breaks to support the national champions, China have unfair State-backed monopolies.

US have necessary intelligence gathering, China have state-surveillance.

They would have a golden opportunity to inflict damage to a geopolitical adversary. The US economy is being propped up by AI, I'm not sure they'd miss the chance to blow that bubble if they could.

They're going around saying "Imagine no possessions. To help you, we'll take them all. Don't thank us".

115k€ gross, that gives you about 67k€ net. 5600€ per month. Minus a 2200€ mortgage, 400€ of health insurance, 1200€ of childcare, 200€ for the car repayment and insurance, 200€ for the water/electricity/internet and 800€ of groceries, that leaves me with a whopping 600€ per month.

My class interests are infinitely closer to a part-time starbucks barista than they are to a millionaire.

The clue is in the name. Working class doesn't mean you earn more than average and have some savings. You're working class if you live from your work rather than your capital.

My household income is in the top 0.7% in the Netherlands, yet I'll never accumulate enough capital to stop working, so I'm working class.

Believing they have any interests other than theirs at heart is like believing the stripper is really in love with you. That's not cynicism, that's just common sense.

Believe it or not, but not every software developer is making 7 figures annually with a few millions in vested shares. Even within the US.

Have you tried deepseek V4? It costs pennies and is as good as Opus 4.6 (I found 4.7 to be a downgrade, and cancelled my claude subscription before 4.8).

The threshold has definitely been crossed.

It's bunq. It was time to close your bank account with them a long time ago. Terrible working environment, terrible leadership.

Count yourself lucky if they don't hold your money hostage.

and you may think, man what a ridiculous example, but think about it this way: what happens when something like Mythos or some future model can actually solve your specific cancer (we're getting closer and closer), but is entirely impossible to afford? Or perhaps you need boosters that require the AI to create more of, and now you're reliant on a model that is too expensive.

Isn't that already the case with current care? Wealthy people get a standard of care poor people couldn't even dream of. Rich people live, temporarily embarrassed millionaires die.

My 2014 Fiesta did too.

(the) Public Benefit (the) corporation.

It's funny how fast we went from "Token usage leaderboard! Use AI or you're fired!" to "You're not in trouble, we're just emailing your manager to celebrate your success, we're definitely not making you top of the list for the next culling, we're a family"

Let's see how it goes in three months. I'm not convinced it's anything but an attempt to make the numbers look better just long enough to IPO.

Enterprises will take a while to adjust. We're going along with Copilot price changes in the short term "just to see what it'd look like". They will get customers to continue with the all you can eat mindset at API pricing for a while, but the finance departments will start asking questions very soon.

Run it on Bedrock. If you're already on AWS, procurement doesn't even need to be involved.