mattwad

Joined 13 years ago

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715
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268
Member since
Sep 19
Co-Founder and CTO of https://charmverse.io
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Comment · 28 days ago
I recommend you get off Authy - they don't have a browser extension or a desktop client, and surprise they don't have a way to export your codes either. I had to send them a GDPR data request, and then Claude decrypted the csv file they sent. I now use Ente and it's so nice having 2fa inside a browser extension. I can also export the secrets at will.
Comment · 2 months ago
Claude will refuse to visit sites with robots.txt, make a graphic spoof of an iOS game, or even fill out an employee survey on my behalf. ChatGPT is always happy to oblige, no questions asked.

I can respect the guardrails - I also can see why OpenAI may not have much control over their models - but I need an AI who will do whatever I ask and not play judge and jury.

Comment · 3 months ago
Bedrock is having issues too, though. Hope your prompts are tested with other models, not just Claude!
Comment · 5 months ago
I was surprised to find that Barnes n Nobles has a decent selection of quality toys for infants to toddlers. Toys have their own section at my store. I used to buy toy/book gifts at Target but the options are so much more limited.
Comment · 11 months ago
competitors might want to drive users to move away if they think a platform is broken
Comment · 1 year ago
i thought cursor was getting really bad, then i found out i was on a gpt 5 trial. gonna stick with claude :)
Comment · 1 year ago
this is broken too!
Comment · 1 year ago
Yea this! How many devs say "it doesn't do what i expect" did not try to write up a plan of action before it just YOLO'd some new features? We have to learn to use this new tool, but how to do that is still changing all the time.
Comment · 1 year ago
There's a huge caveat i don't see often, which is that it depends on your language for programming. IE. AI is reallllly good at writing Next.js/Typescript apps, but not so much Ruby on Rails. YMMV
Comment · 1 year ago
Everyone posting should be considerate of your language/stack. It's pretty likely that Cursor doesn't work equally for every language. I'm working on a Next.js/Typescript/Solidity monorepo with multiple apps and packages and it handles pretty much anything I throw at it. I know I can squeeze more out because I have only been really using it heavily for the past month or so.
Comment · 1 year ago
And Typescript simply doesn't work for me. I have tried uninstalling extensions. It is always "Initializing". I reload windows, etc. It eventually might get there, I can't tell what's going on. At the moment, AI is not worth the trade-off of no Typescript support.
Comment · 1 year ago
I like to look for reviews that discuss specific menu items, good or bad. Everything else is not really helpful
Comment · 2 years ago
Have you tried using Cursor with Claude embedded? I can't go back to anything else, it's very nice having the AI embedded in the IDE and it just knows all the files i am working with. Cursor can use GPT-4o too if you want
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
email is such an annoying standard for storage. i think i'd prefer a simple local SQLLite db with flat HTML files. You could use Next.js and output as 'standalone' if you wanna use React to generate the HTML

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