aetherspawn

So how’s Google for subscription and agentic usage?

Does their Pro plan have similar limits to OAIs $100 business plan for example?

Any equivalent for the 20x plans?

Yeah I think depends on the fidelity of the world model.

If you count “impales person with blue stick while distant asteroid is in position X Y Z” then yes, there are probably infinite, so it depends how you class a discrete method

I think because it stops only stupid people from voting for stupid leaders. It forces smart people to participate.

Voting for every little thing is compulsory in Australia and it’s honestly really annoying.

I’m not sure I believe this anymore. Maybe around 2 years ago, I think.

But the trajectory, of everything it seems, has completely changed. And I have no optimism left.

The world would need to possibly take up arms against its leadership to recover from where it is right now. The problem is, I know the masses are pacifist and reasonable, and it’s the insane few that are either running everything or have all the money. That dreads me, because just as I wouldn’t take up arms, nobody else will either, so who will stop the descent?

You can definitely do certain kinds of sales too early. Early sales should be website and brand creation, and talking to people about what you’re building to see if they’re interested, not necessarily closing deals. I’d say close 1 or 2 pilot deals (for pennies and/or free is good) and then pause it there, so that you have only a reasonable amount of pressure to build and steer a high quality product.

Otherwise you’ll be under such stress that you’ll become reactive and lose your Birds Eye View, and that’s a slow way to sink.

Most who are running a successful (or) profitable startup know that sales is a day and night job in most industries, and that it’s completely unrealistic not to have separate cofounders for development and sales.

Sure, as a total fluke in a very specific industry, software might sell itself. Everywhere else, and especially in physical product and deep tech, someone has to fully own the sales side of the business including the really time intensive stuff like website, email marketing, conferences, merch, sales meetings and trade shows. Heck, even viable solo founder companies would probably sell a magnitude harder with a sales co-founder.

Anecdotally my company picked up a few big distributor contracts for software tools and deep tech products, stuff people want. The products are done, high quality, but they don’t sell themselves - we have to actively put effort into outreach for every sale. Think about that in the context of your own startup. Building the thing is not the end hurdle, it’s kind of like a dependency to selling the thing, which creates revenue.

Looks at watch.

OpenAI release any time now

Well you probably need to find the intersection of what you are passionate about and what people will pay for.

I don’t recommend always using Astra for RE but in my experience I’d use Sol as minimum. As of recently, perhaps upgraded Terra is good value, but in general it seems like you want the smartest model that is economical to run 24/7 and Astra isn’t economical.

Nice website. A piece of advice, put yourself in the position of the user when you’re trying to sell something. Would you buy it? Do they have a lot of other better options from bigger companies?

Might be better to look for a “beach head market”, that is, a unique idea in a smaller niche market where there currently isn’t anything else.

This kind of AI assistant is quite overdone and there are probably more assistants than people who actually use them

It’s ridiculous because something as simple as the compiler picking different registers is going to make zero functional difference but give a false negative on assembly compare.

Yet the C code can’t pick what registers to use, so the poor agent is probably shuffling the code around randomly for hours or days until it matches.

That’s probably why the agent dropped down into inline assembly in the first place (the author complained about this), because I bet it’s thinking trace was that this is futile.

Compilers themselves are not even deterministic and running them multiple times creates different assembly.

The reason this cost so much is because the AI has the ridiculous goal of getting identical assembly output.

The agents would have had to mess around with compiler versions, optimisation options, and the phase of the moon as well.

If you just went for functional equivalence, it would probably cost 10x or 100x less tokens.

Another false economy was using Sonnet instead of a more intelligent model like Sol 6.1 (1), which would have cost more per token, but is 100x or so better at reverse engineering and coding and therefore can chew through the source code much quicker and make fewer mistakes, meaning less work needing to be scrapped.

In my testing doing a similar task, I ran multiple sonnet for weeks and burnt through ~$1000 in tokens to get 20% completion and output that was pretty bad. After switching to Sol 6.1, it finished the whole task in around 2 days, cost around $50, and it did it with zero supervision and a single /goal.

(1): struggle to use Opus for reverse engineering, too many safeguards. OAI has virtually none, and uses way less tokens so is more economical.

Is a code comment and ledger the best way? Should the agent just fill out a form or something and attach it to the sub issue. This is how the hospital would work.

There are Pros and Cons. Cons: generated passwords have less flexibility, not being able to add custom fields (ie backup codes or PIN), can’t store key files (unless you copy and paste contents into Notes section, which doesn’t redact it), no independent master vault password like 1Password.

Pros: it’s free and will probably be free forever, can store and generate TOTP codes, biometric unlock, very easily syncs between devices, great integration on macOS and iPhone/Pad, easy sharing of password to family members without them needing a subscription.

I have been a 1PW user for 10+ years but earlier this year started the long transition to save $10/month for the rest of my life which turns out to be a non-insignificant amount.

This worked in Australia. People complained for like a month, and then just started using the food scraps bin and got over it.

Miracle is garbage doesn’t stink if you don’t put food in it.

Apple Keychain (free Passwords app)

Switch to free Apple Passwords and call it a day.

It’s weird but kind of awesome to think that you think of DVDs like I think of vinyl

/goal spend at least 6 hours doing … works

The supervisor agent will keep the session in a loop until 6 hours have passed and eventually the agent will decide to use up the remaining time rather than fighting with it

Make this the new benchmark please. The prompt is funny, the result is even funnier. I think the great part is there isn’t even a right or subjective way to draw it.

I think what you want is a legal avenue, like Trademark, Design rights, or patent.

If you have one of these, it’s possible that GitHub would honour it if you go via a lawyer.

I think people are either indifferent, or want kids, but a big house is just so damn expensive.

It’s a centralisation of wealth/greed thing.

Auto software engineer here.

It’s frankly because Motorsport software guys are pretty arrogant. They look down on road car and truck engineers, but reality is they develop stuff with virtually no processes and they usually have only very basic engineering skills, yet every day they are told Motorsport is at the forefront of technology.

“Motorsport grade” auto components usually means crappy, and everything requires a software patch or constant maintenance to work correctly.

Not surprised there was a bug, and not surprised they were able to develop and deploy a patch in 1 hour without V&V testing it or anything.

Where’s the Pro 200 for business tier?

The highest is Pro 100 and it’s useless for codex.

Astra requires multiple turns and fresh refactoring agents to produce good code.

Fable 5.1/Opus 5.5 isn’t different, but the first cut is better quality.

Astra is a whole order of magnitude cheaper than Fable, and the Anthropic usage limits are ridiculous. Layers on layers of limits that constantly trip.

We don’t really use Sol because Astra X High is cheap. Some have mentioned regressions but we haven’t noticed any with Astra.

Does that scale? Does a photo of a photo have antigravity.

Every time we fit out an office building we cover it 100% in cameras, both internally and externally.

Fact is, stuff happens. For example: we once had a crazed person run inside and start yelling profanities at people for no reason. Then, he denied it and reported us to the police for assaulting him. He got his girlfriend to act as a fake witness.

Having the cameras was a no brainer for legally protecting my staff, we could just pull the footage and show that no one touched him.

Similar protections for when male and female staff are working together alone. They are both protected from false accusations, one from harming the other, and the other from potentially false reports/blackmail that they attempted to do something.

We’ve caught interns stealing petty cash from people’s wallets (before cameras - caught in the act)

Is it sad? Yes. But it’s the world we live in and cameras are cheap. No such smaller incidents since the cameras went up. People behave better when they’re being watched, or at least they think we’re being watched. Nobody has actually watched the footage for months and it rolls over in about a week.

No, not for a VPS. They are configured at the web server. If you mean CDN, you might be able to use a _headers file or similar to add. Cloudflare can definitely do it.

For important issues like security - just break the web, it will adjust.