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There are a lot of commenters responding to this that appear to be confused about the Constitution and government power in the US.

The federal government has the power to regulate the conduct of private actors and to regulate the activity between private actors. The Civil Rights Act is an obvious example.

Relevant to this discussion, obviously HIPAA regulates how certain private actors must treat the data of other private actors, aka patients.

It's probably confusing because the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, primarily restrain government power. These were enacted because people believed that the original articles granted the federal government too much power. Amendments alter the existing document. Just like the articles in the original document, an amendment can also authorize government powers.

The 13th amendment is a clear example of an amendment that authorizes government power and restrains the conduct of private citizens. It abolished slavery and gave Congress the power to enforce the prohibition.

An amendment can absolutely be written to establish a right to privacy against other private actors and authorize Congress to enact regulation to enforce that right.

The Claudeish drove me back to OpenAI and Codex as well. I find the Claudeish can be improved but it’s impossible to fully mitigate. Opus is unusable for anything I’m going to read.

“I would have to disagree that it gets as grating as Claudeish though.”

It’s hard to imagine anything more grating than Claudeish. To quote Rainer Wolfcastle, "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"

Maybe. There are legitimate use cases. For example, data on what insurance a healthcare provider accepts is notoriously unreliable. There are startups that are using voice AI agents to call providers and ask them "hey are you still accepting these insurance plans?"

Obviously it would be great if the was a, ahem, legal consequence for not keeping this data up to date and available. But you know, if a frog had wings right?

Same. My first real job out of college was at IBM 2004 to 2005. I was so proud to be an IBMer. Hated it. Lots of good people, but the bureaucracy, the pace, the whole thing, not fun.

AI products are going to have to deal with accounting. An agent performs some work. It uses some models and perhaps some other metered services. Someone has to meter that activity. They have to attribute costs, apply the product's pricing rules, bill the customer, collect, reconcile with vendors, and maintain the ledger.

Stripe can use OpenRouter to build the financial and accounting infrastructure for every product that sells metered AI work.

I think the analogy is ADP. Payroll for all the work that's going to be done by AI agents.

Ha, no I just tried to think of an example and an accountant wearing a visor turned AI came to mind. Pardon my hallucinations. It happens to meat sacks too.

Of course, of course, it turns out that name is already taken. Though not anything accounting related. A million monkeys all armed with a million typewriters is quite something.

Claude, build Kardashev Type III power harnessing. Make no mistakes.

Everyone seems to be asking why this a great strategic fit for Stripe.

Stripe can now provide tools to every product that sells metered AI usage and take a cut. This isn't about extracting a small percent on the tokens flowing from your coding agents to your model of choice. It's about all the products that are going to come to market and monetize metered usage.

Want to analyze your 2026 tax return? Use VisorAI's Tax Agent and pay only for what you use. Stripe provides all the accounting, payment processing, ships money to vendors, and takes a bit off the top. Trillions of dollars moving from the labor market to the token market? It's $10B per point in fees for every trillion.

If your safety/shelter tier is at risk, the last thing you need to see is the LinkedIn feed.

The submission is cool because it opens the comments even if you just happen upon some article that also happens to have a HN discussion. That said, when I read the headline I thought the same thing, “uh, right click, open in split view?” When that feature landed in Chrome my first use case was exactly this.

Even if you can get it approved you are adding surface area to your annual security audits, adding another vendor that needs to be disclosed on security assessments, spreading your data to yet another processor, and adding another invoice and budget discussion. Depending on your customer contracts you may need to notify them of a new vendor. This might trigger a new security review. Oh it’s just another model on Bedrock? Bliss.

For what it's worth I genuinely loved your landing page. I casually clicked through and got an immediate unexpected chuckle at the giant animated crab.

It's obviously AI assisted but I interpreted it as a nod to itself on that and really appreciated it.

Feels like lately most of the time is spent arguing about or at least worrying about whether or not AI is going to replace all software developers.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

There's also nothing stopping us from stigmatizing the use of smartphones in public. Even a slight discouragement of it would be progress. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.