robertcope

I feel like a very similar article could be written by a teacher.

We recently rolled out a dashboard so that you can see your token usage. Looking at my usage vs others on my team, I just cannot imagine what they're doing. I use Claude for literally everything and my usage is 10x smaller. I genuinely do not know how they can use that many more tokens. There's gotta be some kind of curve that shows token vs effectiveness and it is not linear.

Hah, came here to make sure someone had mentioned this! One of my favorites.

I was more active on WWIVnet, but I definitely remember Fidonet! Good times.

Same, I used Sonnet 4.6 with the prompt, "Write a simple program that displays a fleur-de-lis. Python is a good language for this." Took five or six minutes, but it wrong a nice Python TK app that did exactly what it was supposed to.

Agreed, absolutely fantastic movie.

How else would you do it?

My wife was complaining this morning that her "promotions" were not getting sorted correctly. She will be happy to know it is an actual issue.

Then I log in to Linode or whatever and open a hole up in the firewall. That's easy. But Cloudflare rarely goes down, not really something I worry about.

Security. I host personal sites on Linodes and other external servers. There are no inbound ports open to the world. Everything is accessed via Cloudflare Tunnels and locked down via their Zero Trust services. I find this useful and good, as I don't really want to have to develop my personal services to the point where I'd consider them hardened for public internet access.

I feel like every week there's a new doomsday article about coming recession, and yet one has not appeared. Of course, if you print it weekly, people start to believe it and eventually you'll be right for one reason or another.

This very much sounds like something my wife and I have talked about. But I can't get it to load.

What if my home hasn't been upgraded to have an AI yet? Can it still join?

You do all that on 6-8 hours of work a week?

Something I feel like these conversations seem to miss is that it is not binary; you don't have to host hardware on-prem if you don't want to be in AWS. There are other clouds. There are Sungards of the world were you can pay for racks of managed hardware. There are a lot of options between buying and managing your own hardware and AWS.