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Coding is not solved. It's only solved when coding becomes something you do because you want to, just because you like doing it, the same way I bake bread at home because I like doing it, not because I have to. Right now we still have to be hands-on - to a lesser extent, yes - but we still have to review and hand holding AI agents to get things done.

The CLI/TUI split in the article is right, but to me the more interesting boundary now is human-facing vs agent-facing interfaces. For most things TUIs lose on both sides.

We run an internal agentic development harness we experimentally built for working on large-ish projects. first version started as a TUI, but it quickly became unusable for the large scale projects it was meant to work on (essentially PRD to PR, with planning loops, task decomposition loops and dependency aware execution / review loops). The TUI was too state-bound for another agent to drive reliably, and too cramped for a human to review at scale. We ended up replacing the TUI with a headless cli, and every interface we've built for the harness has become either a text artifact (mostly for agents to work) or a web view (for humans to drive and review).

I'm already logged in on the cloudflare dashboard and trying to disable the CF proxy, but getting "404 | Either this page does not exist, or you do not have permission to access it" when trying to access the DNS configuration page.

Pretty much everything is down (checking from the Netherlands). The Cloudflare dashboard itself is experiencing an outage as well.

Not-so-funny thing is that the Betterstack dashboard is down but our status page hosted by Betterstack is up, and we can't access the dashboard to create an incident and let our customers know what's going on.

Edit: wording.

This essentially killed my (EU-based) startup in the project management and collaborate space. Before MSFT bundled Teams with O365 we were rapidly growing and closing enterprise customers in the automotive, energy and education industries with high retention rates. Right around the time the Teams bundling started our retention dropped, churn went through the roof, growth slowed down, we failed to raise our next round because of it and had to drastically downsize the company, causing even more churn (about 80% net churn in 2 years). This move by the EU is good, but too little too late - 99% of the companies that were hurt by this have already shut down, and the ones still running will take years to recover...

The exchange rate used to get to the $236 amount is the "official" exchange rate stated by the government which even the government itself doesn't use. 10 million rials is $20.28 based on the real exchange rate used by literally everyone inside the country (see bonbast.com for the real rates - also, as an aside, "bonbast" means deadend in Farsi, which aptly describes the current economical situation in Iran).

For context, the minimum wage is $152 per month (around 75,182,000 rials).

The economy has gone to shit in the past 10 years. The minimum wage was around $425/month, or $2.4/hour back then, compared to $0.86/hour now.

The Rail has lost much of its value since then but the salaries haven't increased enough to cover the brutal inflation, resulting in extreme poverty for the majority of the population and situations like the one explained in the article.

And to top it off, disabling auto recharge doesn't prevent Twilio from charging your account. They won't charge your card but they won't stop processing requests when your balance reaches 0. We were just hit with toll fraud and even though auto recharge was disabled, they continued processing requests until our balance reached NEGATIVE 4,000 USD and then suspended the account. We received to emails in total:

1. Your balance is running low at -65 USD

2. (30 seconds later) your account is suspended, I checked the account an hour later when I saw this email and the balance was -4,000 USD

I asked support why they continued charging our account even with auto recharge disabled, but they just ignore the question.

Support says it's our fault, asks us not to dispute the charge (although there has been no charge yet as we disabled auto recharge), and said it will take 10 days for finance to issue a partial refund (that was 24 days ago).