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It feels like all models are slow(er). I've switched back to 5.5 Medium and it also took 12 minutes to do a small-ish refactor across 8 files. I guess that happens when you onboard nearly a million users per day while also removing the 5h usage limit.

macOS Permission Management regarding shell scripts is so bad. For example they show you a list of software thats allowed to access the full disk - but I have like 8 "sh" or "bash" in there and some random scripts with no way to open the enclosing directory in Finder making it basically impossible to see what it is and if its legit…

I don't think I get foldable phones. When is the extra space necessary? I mean most of them turn from a somewhat 9:16 aspect ratio to 1:1. You don't earn anything in space to consume media content. The only real improvement might be for multitasking?

Also Lovable just switched to TanStack as a default project framework which uses Vite under the hood. Lovable uses Cloudflare so they’re probably deploying it via Cloudflare Workers.

Is the Open in OpenRouter the same as in Open AI? I couldn’t find any repository or hosted code. Thought it'd be a open source, self hostable tool with a cloud offering but seems its just the latter?

Sure, backseat commenting is easier and I wouldn't wanna be in charge at github right now, but on the other side there also a reality where we'd see video essays about githubs downfall because their reliability crashed so hard that businesses could not trust them and moved to competitors / self hosted instances which then meant less paid users to subsidize the ever growing demand of the free users.

They are definitely more outages but the question is if these outages are due to the providers using LLMs to build there products and are therefore not delivering the quality they did before or have LLMs enabled a completely new user base to create projects which they deploy in the free tiers of named providers and they simply cannot keep up with the growth and the new influx of free users is skewing their mixed calculations (free vs paid) so heavily that they cannot scale without losing money. I'd probably say it's a mix of both.

Yea but thats not really an excuse, is it? They offer a service, (some) people pay for that service and should therefore expect it to work. If GitHub cannot keep up with the growth then they could disable new account registrations or start reducing free tiers so people either use the free tier more mindfully or need to pay for usage-base products like Actions which would GitHub allow to scale.

Isn't east one the "core" datacenter and also the oldest? I'd imagine it has more load than the other regions and also has more tech debt and architectural / engineering debt because they had less experience when they built it. Also iirc some services rely on east-1 as a single point of failure for configuration (like IAM or some S3 stuff?)

I hate how correct you are. Working at a company with only two engineers and few sales and marketing people the amount of "hey i made that feature with claude when can we ship it for the customer? I showed them and they really like it" only to look at the code and find out that it doesn't adhere any of our standards and is not of a good quality either. But if you tell that then it's "yea but everyone is ai shipping now and we cannot be the ones not doing it as we will lose customers..." yea but now we are losing maintainability, understanding of our codebase and make ourself dependant on LLM providers who are getting more expensive every week.