schmookeeg

changing doctors has been an annual tradition for me for the last 5 years. It's an odd mix of "nobody is taking new patients" and "here's someone even worse" that I seem stuck on. Still trying. I think I am fighting "the protocol" at this point. It has that enshittified vibe.

This thread convinced me to sweep aside his bullshit and insist though, and I'm thankful for that nudge. I might not be in a few months when I'm drinking the gallon of paste, but that's a problem for future Mike :)

I turned 50 this month and after asking him to "please schedule me for a colonoscopy", my Primary Care Preventer is working hard to talk me out of it and into alternatives. Ones that I assume are cheaper for the Org and he gets to prolong the process by saying it's a loooooong time to schedule (which is why I reached out, duh?)

I intensely dislike American Healthcare. Every little damn thing is a fight.

You can look skyward. I don't know a pilot who doesn't use one.

There are some parallels with other very successful people I have met in my travels. Thankfully not all, but a lot seem to have this... personality quirk.

I've been using Openrouter for API calls and Claude Max200 for CLI coding. Both for about 18 months now.

I have several apps hooked to openrouter for workload processing. Mostly OCR and some inference and some RAG + prompt + output stages. It works great.

I literally just got a note from Anthropic that my Max200 now includes API credit. On receipt I ported over my busiest app stage from openrouter/gemini to haiku, with openrouter acting as an overflow. $200 saved. Boom.

I don't think this is bullish for Openrouter. It took claude 2 minutes to build a primary/secondary API callout for my workload. That's not a very deep moat.

I will still use openrouter to try new models and A/B test "current hotness" for my assorted tasks, but the spend from me is gonna drop, by, well, $200/mo or so.

I'll be excited when someone vibe codes a solution to the asymmetry of how cheap it is to lazily demand receipts versus the time it takes to ideate, build (vibe or otherwise) and market a sufficiently credible "success story" for the skeptics.

I initially shrugged this off as "oh, well the respondents are probably all in their 20s", but then found that under Health and... nope!

Fascinating. I wonder if there is some other confounding factor here.

- 49, leaf on a tree.

> But the people who made them interesting in the first place keep quietly walking out the side door, and writing a post about it on their way out.

I think the really interesting ones just quietly vanished without needing a dramatic blogpost or similar screed at all.

wtfffff that gave me sinister chills. Right up the spine. Wow!

This will change when out of control billing gets noticed. Then us devs will, I presume, get token rations.

I can see my new Thursday afternoon "oh chit" moment being that I didn't complete my weekly task because i torched all of those tokens M-W doing task/ticket grooming using the hot hot model instead of the dodo model with jira mcp connector :D

I'm reading something a bit strange and wonderful: The mountain in the sea by Ray Naylor -- a fictional peek at octopus intelligence.

Question for some of y'all: Those who are listing 3 or more (sometimes way more!) books -- do you read them in parallel? I'm a dyed-in-the-wool serial book monogamist and can't fathom having like 8 or 10 storylines in my head at once.

No judgement, just curious and somewhat awed :)

What happens if the momentum of us AI-addled outlives the tribal knowledge on the sidelines?

I genuinely fear your scenario -- "AI was good enough for long enough to let the artisans with the knowledge die off" -- now it's idiocracy. :)

Although is this different than people who know how to build and operate a steam engine? I am not certain.

I'm a recent transplant. I really like it here.

Voting for flock cameras right now though? That seems impossibly tone deaf to me.

I would have thought the politico playbook would be to stay quiet on the issue, then sneakily swap in a flock alternative AI camera company while loudly heralding how awesome you are for removing the flock menace. Boiled frogs applaud. On to the next 15 seconds of outrage (datacenters I assume :) )

I don't need a degree in sociology to want the dude who broke into my car removed from society.

If he finds the experience improving, so much the better, but it is not my primary concern.

I applied the article's premise, irrespective of the excuses proffered: "failing to provide a public benefit"