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I'd give my ID to Discord if it was guaranteed that the leadership of Discord goes to prison in case of a data breach.

Why would the leadership should go to jail when a data breach is IT's fault? If your card gets cloned, the CEO of the bank should not go to jail. I agree with paying (HUGE) fines, but you suggestion is juvenile, at best.

> Why would the leadership should go to jail when a data breach is IT's fault

So that they don't create conditions under which such breaches are inevitable in the long run.


Maybe that's generally true but you're saying that about a company that has leaked 70,000 IDs that were supposed to not exist just last October.

I hate to say it because it's cute but that website is not going to win over large companies to use these tools.

I don't think they can win over large company, they are just a small nonprofit organization, large companies want to work with other large companies.

Where they can make a difference is for fellow organizations and maybe small companies. A lot of them go to Google because that's the most convenient, even if it sometimes against their principles, they are proposing an alternative.

One minor criticism I have is that while they are not hiding the fact that they are rebranding off-the-shelf free software, they could give them a bit more visibility, should users want to self host at some point.


The arts look a lot like Ankama work https://www.ankama.com

There are so many stories about how people use agentic AI but they rarely post how much they spend. Before I can even consider it, I need to know how it will cost me per month. I'm currently using one pro subscription and it's already quite expensive for me. What are people doing, burning hundreds of dollars per month? Do they also evaluate how much value they get out of it?

I quickly run out of the JetBrains AI 35 monthly credits for $300/yr and spending an additional $5-10/day on top of that, mostly for Claude.

I just recently added in Codex, since it comes with my $20/mo subscription to GPT and that's lowering my Claude credit usage significantly... until I hit those limits at some point.

2012 + 300 + 5~200... so about $1500-$1600/year.

It is 100% worth it for what I'm building right now, but my fear is that I'll take a break from coding and then I'm paying for something I'm not using with the subscriptions.

I'd prefer to move to a model where I'm paying for compute time as I use it, instead of worrying about tokens/credits.


Not using Hot Aisle for inference?

We're literally full. Just a few 1x GPUs available right now.

So far, I haven't been happy with any of the smaller coding models, they just don't compare to claude/codex.


Low hundreds ($190 for me) but yes.

"Get a quote"

Okay, so what does it cost?


That's a "I may afford you, but I don't have people budget for those dumb calls" button for me.

That still doesn't tell me what it costs, though.

well that's the whole point. It reveals organizational attitude and their focus on entrenching the product with pre-sales madness, instead of properly proving value of the product.

I choose not to participate in that, it's fishy. Others do better.


Yes, but there is nothing about pricing on this page. That doesn't make sense to me.

Neon is from Databricks. Here's their pricing page: https://neon.com/pricing

As long as it's purely opt-in and before opting in no data is ever sent to some server and no source code can be changed by it, I'm okay with it.

Looks nice & useful. However, I'd make two versions: The one you have, and additionally a version with Javascript that is a Progressive Web App (PWA). I'm pretty sure some AI could convert the normal page into a PWA for you.

The PWA has the advantage that it will also load when the internet is down and there is no need to save the page manually.


How can it load when the internet is down?!? Doesn’t the PWA source have to be fetched? And if it’s cached, then so can be the static resources.

The complete web page and all resources are saved locally by the service worker. "Clear site data"/clear cookies will delete it. However, clearing the normal browser cache won't. It's overall a little more persistent than the cache for static resources. However, it needs to be installed as an app to really work offline without initial loading. Chrome will prompt you for that on Android, Linux, and Windows. Safari can also do that but makes you jump through hoops. In Firefox, the PWA will work like a page that loads even when the machine is offline.

That sounds unreliable as cache can disappear. A regular mobile app would be safer.

Not a single sample chapter / reading sample? That's unusual.

I'm also using Gemini and it's the only option that consistently works for me so far. I'm using it in chat mode with copy&paste and it's pleasant to work with.

Both Claude and ChatGPT were unbearable, not primarily because of lack of technical abilities but because of their conversational tone. Obviously, it's pointless to take things personally with LLMs but they were so passive-aggressive and sometimes maliciously compliant that they started to get to me even though I was conscious of it and know very well how LLMs work. If they had been new hires, I had fired both of them within 2 weeks. In contrast, Gemini Pro just "talks" normally, task-oriented and brief. It also doesn't reply with files that contain changes in completely unrelated places (including changing comments somewhere), which is the worst such a tool could possibly do.

Edit: Reading some other comments here I have to add that the 1., 2. ,3. numbering of comments can be annoying. It's helpful for answers but should be an option/parameterization.


> Both Claude and ChatGPT were unbearable, not primarily because of lack of technical abilities but because of their conversational tone.

It's pretty much trial and error.

I tried using ChatGPT via the webchat interface on Sunday and it was so terse and to the point that it was basically useless. I had to repeatedly prompt for all the hidden details that I basically gave up and used a different webchat LLM (I regularly switch between ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini).

When I used it a month ago, it would point out potential footguns, flaws, etc. I suppose it just reinforces the point that "experience" gained using LLMs is mostly pointless, your experience gets invalidated the minute a model changes, or a system prompt changes, etc.

For most purposes, they are all mostly the same i.e. produce output so similar you won't notice a difference.


I think you’re highlighting an aspect of agentic coding that’s undervalued: what to do once trust is breached… ?

With humans you can categorically say ‘this guy lies in his comments and copy pastes bullshit everywhere’ and treat them consistently from there out. An LLM is guessing at everything all the time. Sometimes it’s copying flawless next-level code from Hacker News readers, sometimes it’s sabotaging your build by making unit tests forever green. Eternal vigilance is the opposite of how I think of development.


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