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Gemini flash lite family of models currently has the best ratio for price/speed/intelligence for understanding images, no real alternative AFAIK

It's scary relying on Google's models.

I have a very price sensitive workload that used to run on flash 2.5 lite - it's deprecated now.

The replacement 3.1 flash lite is a lot more expensive, but now also has a sunset date.

3.5 flash lite is even more expensive.

So the price is rising and you have no choice but to keep paying more and more.

About the same, using cloudflare. For some very bizarre reason Vertex has a very low non-adjustable quota.

the writing is on the wall for it, I have switched to gemma-4-26b-a4b.

At least in benchmarks, it scores higher and is faster.

"You were the chosen one! You were supposed to destroy them, not join them!"

if I travel and expect to be working I now bring a CO2 meter

If agent is asking a question it means it stumbled on something tricky and often an important architectural decision has to be made.

Even if I am staring at the screen at the time, it's often impossible to study code and make a judgement call that quickly.

My point being, even for opt-in it can be too short - highlights how little consideration they put into it, just releasing slop in production.

Is it possible to use their subscription pricing with Opencode?

many years ago when Hanami was just getting popular I remember doing benchmarks against Rails when it comes to SQL and was unpleasantly surprised when Rails' ActiveRecord ended up being much faster, despite "speed" being advertised as one of the advantages :-(

Not sure what niche it's going to occupy: too expensive for it's intelligence category.

Pleasantly surprised that it costs as GPT 5.5, thank god for the competition.

I found Ruby LLM to be surprisingly good - in terms of usability it's close to Vercel's AI framework.

It tries to strike a balance between working out of the box and being flexible... which has its challenges, still nice overall.

One big real-life pain I experienced is that caches don't always work, e.g. for xAI, since it only supports completions API and thought signatures are returned wrong.

Love Vite, but always felt sorry for them because it was not clear how they can make money, the whole VoidZero thing felt like a stretch.

It's one of those things that always stopped me from building cool tools - you have to make a living somehow.

So I am happy for the team of builders that they were able to receive the deserved payout and sustainability.

I still don't understand how people use git worktrees with Docker. You need a full database and etc. For me it's simpler to have multiple checkouts.

the video on this post looked like a Tiktok - everything is jumping, I could barely grasp what was going on

You may remember the argument that you can build an AI app and it continues to improve as models improve and costs go down?

Well, looking at OpenAI / Google / Anthropic we see crazy cost increases, such that it might invalidate your unit economics.

Cheering for Chinese models!

Flash family but costs like a Pro. $9 vs $12 for output.

Is it basically about giving as much data as possible to insurance companies?

fair enough, thanks for elaborating

Maybe my pockets are not deep enough, but I completely fail to understand the value proposition of iPad Air vs the regular iPad. If you want something powerful or big - go with Pro, if not - choose the "regular", much cheaper.

What am I missing?

Since everyone is showing their flow, here's mine:

* create a feature-name.md file in a gitignored folder

* start the file by giving the business context

* describe a high-level implementation and user flows

* describe database structure changes (I find it important not to leave it for interpretation)

* ask Claude to inspect the feature and review if for coherence, while answering its questions I ask to augment feature-name.md file with the answers

* enter Claude's plan mode and provide that feature-name.md file

* at this point it's detailed enough that rarely any corrections from me are needed

Definitely my experience as well.

Another dimension to this is native vs 2nd language speakers.

For those of us who had to learn English, we put a lot of effort into grammar, while native speakers whip out half-baked sentences without a second thought.

I admit I have not properly read a single book in a couple of years.

These days when it comes to technical stuff I much more prefer to fill in gaps by reading articles or documentation. Technical books are so long it feels like authors are paid by words.

And when it comes to fiction I have really leaned into audiobooks. My eyes are too tired from computer work, and I can combine audio with other activities like jogging or cooking.

There are some "technical" audiobooks as well, but only a small category of technical books makes sense in the audio format.

my runner friends hate it, suddenly your Garmin can't show your pace and distance properly. (I am very much aware it's a 1st world problem to have in times of war)

my parents live in Russia and my grandma has alzheimer's, so as a present "for her" I bought an airtag - so in case my mom loses grandma in a crowd she can be found.

Little did I know, GPS jammers around the city make my grandma appear 50km away.

Not Apple's fault of course.

I no longer reside in Russia, so I am not being targeted by these.

But I think that it mostly comes down to companies being able to pay for these ads. Mastercard / Visa payments no longer work in Russia. If a company has a way to pay (by having another business entity in another country), then it probably works.

oh, right! Didn't have my coffee yet :-)

But one difference is Rustore actually has payments and subscriptions, which hurts Google more.

I am not very well educated when it comes to alternative stores landscape. But I do know that in Russia there's now Rustore: https://www.rustore.ru/en which functions by automatically downloading and updating APKs for you.

During the APK install, however, you do see the ugly Android prompt about how this app may be dangerous.

Rustore has its own app payment system, which obviously circumvents Google Play fees.

This works on regular Android phones.

Are there other examples of such stores? Perhaps it's Google's answer to that.

in the ideal situation - yes, but since Russia is big and the climate is cold almost everywhere the government usually does not do it except in big cities.

My grandfather, who is a nuclear scientist, and my mom also come from a small closed-off city in Siberia (Russia).

Visiting my grandparents I remember we had to go through a sort of border control to get there.

My mom told stories of how the government would change the asphalt every year in that city to cover the nuclear dust.