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gum_wobbleon OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

Because they have found a way that cost them less to have you use a lesser capable model o less expensive

gum_wobbleon fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine

I don’t think you develop this kind of things to be useful and solve problems. It’s more of a fun hobby project/homage kind of things. Maybe not everything has to have a purpose yk

gum_wobbleon Claude Duet

To avoid the costs of integrating with existing infrastructure and auth services? Man… Where do I start…

gum_wobbleon Attention is all you have

I solved it with Obsidian Web Clipper

gum_wobbleon Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back

Thanks. Why is ts in the front page

gum_wobbleon “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

The stupidest part is that now we consider coding only the typing-on-the-keyboard act. Coding always included the “figuring out what to core” part. Developers were being called analysts back in the days

gum_wobbleon 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots

how so, can you link to any sources?

gum_wobbleon Linus Torvalds on LLM usage in kernel development

The take is reasonable, but as we all know Linus has stopped coding since forever at this point in time. It's easy for him to make this statements in the position he is in

gum_wobbleon AI Compass: which archetype are you?

I feel like that the "patron saints" are not well positioned... Holly Herndon obviously overall thinks it's a good technology, having integrated it within all its music production.

gum_wobbleon Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

> developers don’t need to understand X … cause claude does!

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gum_wobbleon Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

Genuine question: do you write Google search queries in natural language?

gum_wobbleon Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties

Yeah, well, I mean, ahah, you don't say :)

gum_wobbleon 'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused

> PR executives say UK companies are forcing them to present ordinary automation as artificial intelligence

What a time to be alive

gum_wobbleon JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it

This is badly written? I was gonna try to argument but it just sound like the writer had a bad day configuring a project IAM and put a generic rant online about JWT usage...

If your frontend application connects to multiple protected APIs, you just can't use a session. That's it. Mobile apps and some specific web application need this a lot.

The only true claim I see in this post is > almost every developer shipping it has no idea why.

That's the true problem. JWT is being used as a SSO strategy in the wrong way most of the times.

gum_wobbleon I still prefer MCP over skills

> A solution is to have the agent run a cli tool to access mcp services.

lol and why do you need mcp for that, why cant that be a classic http request then?

gum_wobbleon OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream

So the solution to bad design and enshittification is to have an horde of agents to throw at tasks now?

gum_wobbleon Engineers who dismiss AI

> I don’t know why this is so controversial it’s just a tool

Do you really "don't know why"? Are you sure?

I believe that ignoring the consequences that commercial LLMs are having on the general public today is just as radical as being totally opposed to them. I can at least understand the ethical concerns, but being completely unaware of the debate on artificial intelligence at this stage is really something that leaves me speechless, let me tell you.

gum_wobbleon VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

I believe this comment is nuts. How the hell are you justifying the removal of a free and common IDE functionality for something that it's rate limited based on usage? In any other context, this would have been called enshittification...