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Same for me

I agree, it’s absolutely absurd, if they’d at least share what specific thing set the alarm bells off i could re-attempt without inadvertently committing a thought crime. And it’s not like those fable tokens are being refunded, yes the new ones post downgrade are opus rate but the token spend to find out you’re a criminal were fable bucks.

Fable pre-ban wouldn’t continue an old conversation about brain chemistry, sooo I guess they’re dusting off old tricks now that their new robot is offline.

“We’re not chatting for fun, get to work“

Where is it?

What stopped working

Were there any recent changes

How does it do the thing that stopped

What does that thing need in order to work normally

How does that thing tell us it’s working

How do the things that it needs to work work

Logs, traces, metrics to prove each; repeat

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Local repro is fine but if it’s not doing prod stuff with prod data it may not do much for you

My conspiracy theory is oai saw the writing on the wall and the massive gpu commit was in part to starve the market to delay this inevitability.

Like how they did in the Apollo program?

When you asked:

“Wow, are you saying I kind of singlehandedly built the kind of stack they use at Google? If engineering departments only knew… how can I get some CTO to hire me as a chief engineer?”

was probably when chatgpt should have said - no you built what seems like an interesting/capable php framework.

But instead you got merciless positivity.

Your homepage looks cool but doesn’t explain what the product does.

This is just one man’s take:

“The Human-AI Operating System” is marketing vapor. “Harmonize your workflow” tells me nothing. The three feature boxes—“Intelligent Automation,” “Seamless Integration,” “Adaptive Learning”—could describe any SaaS product from the last five years.

I had to scroll to the demo video to understand you’re building event-driven workflow automation. That should be the first sentence.

Compare to your explanation: “Shopify order comes in, system checks integrations, shows you the route, one button completes all actions.” That’s clear. That’s what someone needs to know in five seconds.

Your homepage buries the actual value under abstraction. No one knows what “harmonize” means operationally. They don’t know what problem you’re solving or what actions the system takes.

Strip out the philosophy. Lead with the mechanism: “When business events happen, we route them across your tools automatically. One click fulfills orders, notifies teams, updates calendars. The system learns your patterns and gets smarter over time.”

Then show the integrations—Gmail, Shopify, Stripe, Slack, Asana. People need to see “oh, this connects the tools I already use.”

The cosmic language (“reshape how humans and AI collaborate”) actively obscures what you built. You’re competing for attention against a thousand AI startups using identical words. Specificity is your only advantage.

What does the product actually do in the first 60 seconds after someone signs up?

I’ve run into a similar issue, compacting is pretty much worthless and leads to a lot of churn. I have started having Claude pay constant attention to usage and assess whether the next batch of tasks flirts with compaction. If we’re anywhere close I have Claude create a next steps doc with meticulous notes along with a prompt that I can give to the next llm to hit the ground running.

Then kill the session and start fresh. At least this way I know there’s a fighting chance of not falling into a death spiral of the llm guessing about what it’s supposed to be doing as if it hasn’t just had a self inflicted stroke.

I work for Amazon (AWS for 4 years then “the website” side of the house for the last 3)

The previous commenter is correct, there is no NOC or devops team and I’ve not encountered a Devops job family and I’ve never seen terraform internally. Within AWS, the service teams that work these outages are the same ones that design the service, fix bugs, deploy the pipelines, be oncall, etc. the roles that fill these teams are pretty much one of three types: nde, sde, sysde. They typically use cdk if they’re doing AWS things, else they’ll use internal tooling.

The job you posted is a customer facing consultant like role - customers use terraform so having a customer facing consultant type that knows how customer-y things work is a good decision.

100% I drive a shell all day long, there’s no reason to drop to a browser to copy and paste. Just create new folder, init, start the conversation and have it take notes/write docs. It’s a splendid way to work. Plus if you name the folder something meaningful you can always go back without needing to scroll through vaguely named chat conversations

If I say “flourishing is more important than life,” I am not denying the necessity of being alive. I am saying bare survival is insufficient.

Imagine a being kept alive forever in agony, if life alone is the irreducible axiom, then preserving that agony-life satisfies the principle.

So I would say that Flourishing life is the most important truth, because unlike non-death the denial of flourishing does not collapse into absurdity.

Life seems too broad/shallow a measure. Stopping at “life” means anything that isn’t death is success.

“Slavery/torture/misery is ok because at least they get to live”

So this doc gives you a floor (life must not be sacrificed) but not a ceiling (what counts as good life).

In a new session re-ask Claude but include this footer

Focus on substance over praise. Skip unnecessary compliments or praise that lacks depth. Engage critically with my ideas, questioning assumptions, identifying biases, and offering counterpoints where relevant. Don’t shy away from disagreement when it’s warranted, and ensure that any agreement is grounded in reason and evidence.

There’s more to life than money, this is why your parents are willing to “waste” it on you.

When I was in a similar rut/loop the best thing that happened to me was when I finally stopped trying to keep up appearances, got honest and asked for help.

It was embarrassing to finally humble myself to ask for help, luckily embarrassment isn’t life threatening, just really uncomfortable for a minute.

The people in my life wanted to help me more than they wanted repayment. They helped in finding a gp the gp helped find a psychologist and then they all helped find a psychiatrist.

The TCP/IP Illustrated books by Richard W. Stevens are the best.

https://archive.org/details/RichardStevensTCPIPIllustratedEN

You’ll need a vpc subnet connected “something” with outbound access.

Natgw and nat instance are about all there is or something crazy like a site to site vpn attached to your vgw and a server/firewall outside of aws/ec2 connected to the internet acting like a router…?

Perl6? Php, what year is it?

Given the metaphorical nature of your statement, I assume you're feeling overwhelmed or that things seem chaotic. Here are a few suggestions that might help:

1. Take a deep breath and try to stay calm. When everything feels upside down, it's important to center yourself.

2. Identify specific issues that are troubling you. Breaking down the problem can make it more manageable.

3. Focus on what you can control. There may be many things outside your influence, but concentrate on actions you can take.

4. Reach out to friends, family, or a professional for support. Talking about your concerns can provide relief and new perspectives.

5. Practice self-care. Ensure you're getting enough sleep, eating well, and exercising.

6. Limit exposure to negative news if that's contributing to your stress.

7. Set small, achievable goals to create a sense of progress and control.

Would you like to discuss any specific aspects of what's making you feel this way? I'd be happy to explore more targeted advice based on your situation.

/ It sounds like you're feeling overwhelmed or like things are out of control. It's okay to feel this way sometimes. Here are a few steps that might help:

1. *Pause and Breathe:* Take a few deep breaths to calm your mind. Grounding exercises, like focusing on your breath or feeling your feet on the ground, can help you feel more present.

2. *Identify What's Within Your Control:* Write down what’s bothering you and separate what you can control from what you can't. Focus on taking action on the things you can influence.

3. *Break Things Down:* If you're facing many challenges, try to tackle them one at a time. Break big problems into smaller, manageable steps.

4. *Reach Out for Support:* Talk to a friend, family member, or professional who can provide support, advice, or just listen.

5. *Practice Self-Care:* Engage in activities that help you recharge, like taking a walk, meditating, listening to music, or doing something creative.

6. *Limit Overwhelm:* Reduce your exposure to stressful news or environments if possible. Sometimes stepping back can provide a fresh perspective.

If you feel like sharing more about what’s going on, I'm here to listen.

/

First, let's clarify what you mean by "the world is upside down." Are you referring to a personal challenge, a global event, or something else entirely?

Here are some general suggestions that might help, depending on your specific situation:

If you're feeling overwhelmed or stressed, try grounding techniques like deep breathing, meditation, or mindfulness. If you're facing a significant challenge, seek support from friends, family, or a mental health professional. If you're concerned about global events, stay informed through reliable sources and consider ways you can contribute positively to your community or the world. If you're feeling disconnected or lost, explore new hobbies, interests, or experiences to rediscover your passions. Please feel free to share more details about what you're going through, and I'll do my best to provide tailored advice.

I grew up listening to NPR, it was always on. Car talk with my dad on the weekends, Prarie home, etc. It's been programed in every car I've owned since I was a teenager. My wife and I have listened together and donated for years. But starting around 2019ish it gotten harder and harder to stay engaged with the programming.

Almost every piece of reporting is now some kind of soft-outrage human-interest pseudo news. I want to listen but every other story is a tale of victim hood and oppression. It's just too much.

It seems like the only way to really assess a teachers performance is by evaluating the outcomes of their students over time.

Since teaching career progression in the US is mostly tenure based I've always wondered why there wasn't a more longitudinal approach to their assessment.

The product is the students ability to achieve over time. One batch of good test results doesn't measure anything other than the teachers ability to get good outcomes for the test.

I don't understand/know how these investments are supposed to work?

Why aren't these investment allocations treated more like a microloan+ bounty program?

I think a good example of how these kinds of things could be done better is more the things like DARPA model: funding for slick idea shows up, private does smart things, public embraces smart thing to drive standards and costs down.

the fact that teslas charger is gaining adoption by more manufacturers is great. As an open design it also seems like something that could have been championed by the government.

I was thinking something similar.

Carve the geography into small population density based chunks

Identify boundaries like Bisecting Highways, railways, Rivers, mountains, etc.

Create boundary informed population chunk clusters.

Identify features Food Industry Schools

Find the shortest road based path from each bounded cluster to each feature.

Create convex hulls that enclose bounded population chunk clusters of the target population size and paths to features.

Rerun after every census.

100%. after a lifetime of being overweight I found the will to make diet changes and ended up losing about 90lbs. The thing that's missed in these 'it's just calories in, calories out and will power' types of comments is that the commitment required to accomplish the weight loss is nothing compared to life consuming commitment required to maintain the loss over multiple years.

After 5 years of vigilance the mental and social toll was just too much and I gradually let down my guard within about 3 years I was up 50+lbs.

So now 10 years on it's corner cutting because there's a medical intervention that can help or just weakness because I can't find the will to do it to myself and people around me all over again?

Not helpful.

Agreed I've seen a scenario play out with a junior engineer and a senior manager who does this. The junior had the right idea but the dialog with the inquisitive senior manger left the junior confused because they didn't feel like they had the chops to push back.

I also have a sense that community is a missing piece.

God what a blast from the past... I worked for Savvis who bought wamnet million years ago.

I tell people about these racks every now and then because of the chicken.

We had a proper inventory item for the rubber chicken, just in case you needed an rma.

I believe Kiss was only 'popular' due to their proximity to NYC, their merchandising and stage gimmicks.