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And we all know that being a high profile politician isn’t an avenue for bribery. /s

I’m not a CPA, but aren’t there plenty of legal ways to divest in a business where you’re not directly involved, but where you can still get a share of any profits?

Not just the west. Posted a couple weeks back here on HN: https://sundaicity.com/blogs/getting-arrested-in-japan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078647

Perhaps you’re right. Apple's App Store review can be a rough process. Then again, a search of “Inkwell” in the App Store shows plenty of apps that are named “Inkwell”, many of then writing-related.

Seems like a variation of this game called Chess Peace: https://chesspeace.app

But can you glue it? "Jelly" should be added here: https://www.thistothat.com

There are many reasons to dislike AWS and many reasons to stay away from it (and the criticisms in the article about support resonate with me), but a few things in the article stood out to me as a bit misleading:

First, the comparison of running an Anthropic model in Bedrock vs. Claude Code is not apples-to-apples. With Bedrock pay API pricing (or whatever negotiated pricing AWS and the vendor agreed to), just like the other providers in Bedrock. You know what else is more expensive/token than a Claude Code subscription? API access for pretty much all of the other big providers. Whether we like it or not, Anthropic sees subscrition usage as different than API usage. This is not at all an AWS thing.

Second, regarding Lambda: the cold start criticism is fair but for heavy workloads usually isn't an issue and for light workloads there are some workarounds. But, if you have a discreet function that can exist outside of your app, Lambda still may be a better option here. As far as the "MASSIVE development complexity" I wish the author cited specifics. I feel like this can be true of any technology and depends on how you go about setting it up and implementing it. I've used Lambda for all sorts of use cases, including a full web application (I'd advise staying away from this one!) and there definitely is a sweet spot where it can work well.

Lastly, the whole bit about using AWS WorkMail would also suggest they never really "left" AWS. But maybe I misunderstood that part as I'm not very familiar with that service.

This is really helpful framing. Thanks!

> So many MRs

Off topic: what’s the history behind the naming of Pull Request (PR) vs. Merge Request (MR)? I understand why both can be considered “correct”, but I’m curious why, say, GitHub uses PR and Gitlab uses MR.

Agreed. And, LOC has historically been one of the things we've collectively fought against management for how to evalute a "productive" developer!

Vibe Coding (and LLMs) did not create undisciplined engineering organizations or engineers. They exposed and accelerated them.

Plenty of engineers have loose (or no!) standards and practices over how they write coee. Similarly, plenty of engineering teams have weak and loose standards over how code gets pushed to production. This concept isn't new, it's just a lot easier for individuals and teams who have never really adhered to any sort of standards in their SDLC to produce a lot more code and flesh out ideas.

While I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of the skepticism and negative sentiment around this, it's worth noting this _does_ require having a Stripe account, which (last I was aware) does require that you prove you're a real person and provide banking details, at least in order to transact in production. That will certainly limit the use of a lot of spammers, scammers, etc. no? Or, maybe I'm misreading and/or being naive!

Note: I am a CloudFlare customer, but on a very low plan and probably have no use for this.

Vision has a long way to go. I remember trying an early version of AWS's Nova Act and laughed at how slow it was. And a few months later it hadn't really seemed to improve that much.

Recently, I asked Claude to log into my local grocery store chain's website and add all of the items from my shopping list to a cart. It was hilariously slow, but it did get the job done.

Unless I missed it, the article doesn't explictly mention speed in the copy, but the results do show a 17 minute (!!!) total time for the vision agent vs. 0.5s - 2.8s for the API approach.

A big part of the challenge with vision is that to manipulate the DOM, you first have to be sure the entire (current) DOM is loaded. In my experience this ends up in adding a lot of artificial waits for certain elements to exist on the page.

Rage bait? It's a fact about how some software handles downloading extra content. This issue and how ads on the web are served are two separate issues.

There is, however, precedent for software alerting/asking the user to install “extras” or utility packs and showing the disk size that content will take up and even allowing the user to choose a location to store such things. Creative software does this all the time.

There’s nothing stopping Google Chrome from doing something similar except, I suspect, Google knows or feels it will result in many fewer installs of its bloatware.

This is the failure of the author and their team, not Cursor and not Claude.

If a junior or new employee made this mistake, it would be because you, as the founder, and your engineering team, didn’t have protections in place from editing/destroying production data for this particular scenario.

Using best practices and least privilege principles is more important now than it ever has been. For those of us with our hands close to button, we should be always mindful of this now more than ever.

I love this. In a world that is increasingly driven by AI, to me this highlights how important and mandatory human creation is in art.

I would love to see prompt examples that created the images on the announcement page.

I really like what Framwork has been doing, but I have an honest question: is 20 hours of Netflix 4k streaming at 250nit and 30% volume a spec to show off? I genuinely don't know.

I thought most modern laptops have dedicated video decode hardware that is fairly easy on battery. At only 250nit though...that seems dim by today's standards. I'm happy to be wrong though!

My big question around the Mythos FUD, is this: if we take for fact the Mythos is as powerful and dangerous as we’re being told (and I realize this is part marketing), and because of that Anthropic isn’t going to release it…how long can that last? Isn’t it reasonable that OpenAI or xAI or some other company - or foreign government - will come up with a similarly dangerous model fairly soon?

So what’s Anthropic’s plan here? How long can they withhold releasing Mythos or something Mythos-like? Is it reasonable to think they - or another AI provider - are going to dumb down future models so they’re less dangerous? I personally don’t think that’s the case.

I’m not saying Anthropic should or shouldn’t release Mythos, but it leaves me wonderingwhat’s going to be different in, say, 6 months or even a year when they or another provider releases a model as dangerous as we’re being told Mythos is?

I noticed this as well and came here to comment about it. The term "vibe coding" is becoming quite overloaded.

I had a very mediocre experience with their sales team when I was trying to understand how my company could sign up for their enterprise plan. I could barely get the time of day from them and once I finally got a response, the rep knew very little and never responded to my follow up questions. At that time, enterprise plans started at a $250,000 minimum spend/year, which we would've been well over.

> Its actually kind of fascinating how a huge enterprise like Youtube can ruin a feature to the point that its actually useless.

For the people in charge of engagement at YouTube, making search useless is a feature. If most people don’t get value from search then they’ll resign and be forced into following the algorithm, which is how Google wants you to consume YouTube.

Similar reason why streaming providers keep making it more difficult to find your previously watched list.

It’s truly unusable. What a mess the web has become.

"Letting the agents loop can result in more changes than expected, which are usually welcome..."

If "more changes than expected" means "out of scope", then I disagree. Those types of changes are exactly one of the things that's best to avoid whether code is being written by a person or an LLM.

The fact that this is on by default, especially for paid accounts and even more especially for organizations, where certain types of privacy is sometimes mandated by the industry your business is in, is ridiculous.

There should also be a much easier one-click to opt out without having to scroll way down on the settings page.

I think the idea and write up is neat, but I question if the brother ever thought of, I don’t know, hiring a receptionist so he wasn’t losing “thousands of dollars per month”? Maybe I’m oversimplifying the problem.

The other aspect of this I have questions about is the price quoting. Knowing the standard price list makes sense, but how can you trust that a caller knows what they need without looking at their car? Wouldn’t this likely result in quotes for work that may or may not even be needed?

It's quite telling how dumb even Apple thinks the case is when you have to scroll pretty far down on the page and then pretty far to the right to see the so-called "Smart Case". It remains a pretty horrendous "case".

I noticed this as well. I had to look it up. Apparently ‘pfp’ means ‘profile picture’.