matchagaucho
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Comment · 1 month ago
I think the OP is referring to less transient use cases, like the actual source code to agent system instructions.
Comment · 2 months ago
We're mostly paying for AI delivery, performance and SLAs at this point.
GPT 5.6 Luna at $0.20 per 1M is pretty good for 80% of enteprise applications.
Comment · 2 months ago
Right? Should we switch from direct OpenAI API integration to OpenRouter?
What's the incentive here?
Open Responses API doesn't appear to support state management (yet)
Comment · 2 months ago
"Okay. I'll create a loop and goal so it doesn't stop until it's checked that everything works."
This is where the quality magnification seems to be occurring.
Goal-driven loops can make good code great, or bad code worse.
Comment · 2 months ago
Fortunately, SaaS vendors have already conditioned users to accept usage limits within seat-based plans: “Upgrade to Pro for 50 GB of storage.”
How do we make subscribers become equally comfortable paying for AI usage? Tokens, credits, inference calls?
Comment · 3 months ago
Ultimately, most people don't have ideas for the kinds of personalized entertainment they want
1:1 AI entertainment probably won't be a cold start experience.
Much like the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books of the 80's, consumers choose a baseline template, customize the characters, and interact at various points within the plot.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's difficult to think in exponentials.
But this demonstrates we're a couple orders of magnitude away from generating 1:1 hyper-personalized entertainment and media for individuals, rather than the masses.
Comment · 4 months ago
The 1950s were a different era. Industrial and functional designs and were not protected.
Leo knew and acknowledged his body inspirations (Bigsby and Rickenbacker), and considered his true IP to be in sound, pickups, mechanics, tremolo...
I really wish Warmoth or PRS could get some legal fee subsidizing to push back.
Comment · 4 months ago
It would be odd to try this as copyrightable in the U.S, where there’s a pretty clear distinction between art added to a guitar, like PRS bird inlays, and the core body shape.
Comment · 4 months ago
Similar work experience, I was with a CBS-owned music company that had a CNC machine with some old Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster body templates.
The hardware manager was cool and would let employees turn slabs of wood into Tele- and Strat-style bodies after hours.
When the Fender/German court ruling came down, my first thought was: Fender has had roughly 70 years with the Stratocaster design, and the broader industry has been making S-style guitars for decades.
Surely at some point a body shape becomes generic, right?
Comment · 4 months ago
There's another dimension to the Salesforce CRM "build" argument; which is to reduce your 25 seats down to 5, and expend Eng resources to building "agents" to automate many recurring data-entry CRM tasks.
This is also the reason the stock has hit a 3-year low. Not because CRM can be replaced entirely. But because the seat count can be reduced 50%+.
Comment · 5 months ago
I'd like to believe that stable state ends in a pair-programming structure, with a systems thinker/engineer and a domain expert.
Someone needs to spot when a linked list is better than a map. And the other needs to spot when clinical trial coding should happen before claims, audits, or patient outreach.
Comment · 5 months ago
In agentic design, I keep coming back to the idea of “how easily we can compose elements”, along with Fowler’s OOP and refactoring principles.
It’s a new frontier, and there are no absolutes. But I suspect the most durable AI systems will be built around highly composable, well-orchestrated agents.
Comment · 6 months ago
Same debate as the dot-com era.
Customer: “I don’t want to pay more than $100/mo for my website” Developer: “What are your goals?” Customer: “1M daily visits, 1,000 monthly signups.”
And we've spent the past 25 years offering serverless compute, auto-scaling, pay-as-you-go for AWS and Internet infrastructure. And the economics are still a hard sell.