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As someone who has been going around telling everyone that it's mostly about OpenAI being incompetent at sandboxing, I do kind of appreciate this post. It's very familiar to set up a system only to find years later that it has grown past the assumptions it was built around.

Lots of things were science fiction before they were science fact

It's a hybrid - the Apple Upgrade program (both the old and new ones) let you keep the phone and pay it off over time like zero percent financing but also give you the option of returning the phone and getting a new one.

To be fair that would be excellent marketing

That's a lot of words to say the same thing

It's not legally binding, but it is central to what the US is and has been. That's why they put the poem there, and that's why Americans welcomed the gift and erected the statue, and that's why it has been considered to be one of our most cherished symbols ever since.

You misunderstand - the government issued a directive to Anthropic that effectively forced them to pull access from everyone, even their own employees.

High income earners already subsidize the program. But more importantly, why would you target high income earners instead of targeting the wealthy?

Does a pocket calculator not understand arithmetic? What part of a fourth grader's understanding is missing?

If Windows isn't the gold standard having 70% of the market, then what is? Azure is in second place not by far after AWS. And these are huge, HUGE markets. I wouldn't say your local grocer is dead because it's not Costco, and of course by this logic Costco is itself dead because it's not Walmart.

My elderly uncle is completely addicted to these. We can barely complete a conversation without him getting bored and pulling out his phone to watch these nonsense videos. I don't even understand what the point is. The ones he watches are these clearly procedurally generated stories. It'd be one thing if the content was actually interesting, but ugh.

You're comparing the wrong numbers. The question is what 1% of the purchase price does to the amount you need for your down payment and fees. On a 10% down payment an extra 1% increases the amount you need by 10%. Remember that while a million dollar home sounds extravagant, it's first time buyers who often have just barely enough who are trying to buy these.

I tried out Gemini in Google Sheets the other day. I asked a pretty simple question and the agent ran for like two minutes trying to answer it until I stopped it. I can't imagine these agentic features are cheap to run for what they get you.

Things besides writing code that you might be doing:

- Meetings

- Code reviews

- Manual testing

- Deployments and more testing

- Triaging issues

- WTF how did this bug happen?

- JIRA in general

- Whiteboarding sessions / Design docs

- Interviews

- 1:1s (mandatory ones)

- 1:1s (networking / problem solving / political alignment)

- Whatever your company's version of corporate extracurriculars is