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Comment · 2 months ago
The incident is somewhat embarrassing for what appears to be a hosting provider. And the article is clearly written with a LLM. From a PR perspective that’s a peculiar combination. A bit more empathy and a human touch would probably have been a good move. Accidents and outages do happen, but reading the LLM article makes me feel like no one cares about what happened.
Comment · 7 months ago
Certainly! We’re building https://repejo.se/en/ which is a fundraising platform for NGO’s. So far we’ve been focusing on the Swedish market and local payment methods.

We’re looking for use cases where AI makes sense, but for some reason determinism seems to be a highly valued trait when moving money around. I feel a bit of FOMO around AI features in our product, but not enough to shoehorn in AI where it doesn’t fit.

I don’t think end users will start building their own SaaS using Claude Code. They don’t want the hassle and it’s not their core expertise. But I think that SaaS prices will decrease since fewer developers can provide more value, which leaves room for new businesses to enter the market.

Comment · 8 months ago
I don't know how viable business agents are but I don't care, this seems like so much fun. Just noodling around with agents and seeing what they can do. It must be so exciting trying stuff that I guess no one has tried before and just seeing what happens.
Comment · 10 months ago
I thought that the article would be about if we want AI to be effective, we should write good code.

What I notice is that Claude stumbles more on code that is illogical, unclear or has bad variable names. For example if a variable is name "iteration_count" but actually contains a sum that will "fool" AI.

So keeping the code tidy gives the AI clearer hints on what's going on which gives better results. But I guess that's equally true for humans.

Comment · 2 years ago
I've always understood synoptic to mean "see together", that is, the synoptic gospels are meant to be seen together, since they are so similar.
Comment · 2 years ago
From the FAQ:

> When will I receive my enemy?

> your enemy is already on its way. do not be alarmed.

Comment · 3 years ago
The unions don’t make any money from forcing a collective bargaining agreement on Tesla. Unions make their money from membership dues, and all workers are free to join, or not to join, a union.
Comment · 3 years ago
About 1.5 minutes for the build which is Vue 2 + Vuetify + Vite.

Our e2e test with Cypress take about 1.5 hours, but with parallelisation we get this down to about 10 minutes, half of which is setting up the Docker environment.

Comment · 3 years ago
I don't know exactly how they work, but GDPR has some dispensations when data is used for academic purposes.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are two taxes that apply to dividends in Sweden. First the company has to pay a corporate tax of 20.7% on profits. After that tax the person receiving the dividend has to pay a capital gains tax of 20%[1]. So the effective tax rate is 36% [2] which is about half (?) of the tax on labor.

Also, companies do not have to pay VAT on services and goods, so it's very common to by work tools and such through the company. Then you're able to buy stuff for untaxed money and without paying VAT. You're not allowed to pay for private living expenses through the company, but I know people that do that, which effectively makes the tax rate 0%. Until you get audited that is. Buying a computer, headset and paying for your phone service through the company is just fine.

[1] note that there is a cap on how large dividends you only pay 20% on, over that cap the tax rate is higher [2] if I know how to do math

Comment · 3 years ago

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