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I was happily doing all my coding on the $20 plan. I had to upgrade to the $100 plan once I started using Claude Design. I was spending $20-50/day on extra credits while on the $20 plan. The $100 plan more than covers it.

HackerNews search respects double quotes around your terms as an exact match, as do many other search engines.

For example search for "Amerca" with and without quotes. Without quotes you get content for "America" but with quotes you only get the exact typo match.

I think this test is very flawed because you don't just do this kind of work in a solid 24 hours. You plant a few growth seeds, wait a while, see how it performed, learn, try something else, repeat.

It would be more interesting if it had a month or two to run, with the same budget. Probably just sleeping most of the time while it waited.

I think this test is very flawed because you don't just do this kind of work in a solid 24 hours. You plant a few growth seeds, wait a while, see how it performed, repeat.

Opus has been great for me on building simple features or adding new things. Fable has been significantly better for things like "there are subtle bugs in this complex interface I can't figure out, find them". Opus gets a rough idea for some. Fable actually finds all the tiny subtle issues.

Max 5X. I have plenty of headroom coding using Opus all day so I figured I may as well use Fable a bit. I have found Fable to do a much better job of understanding a codebase and avoiding subtle bugs.

I've been using Fable for planning and Opus for coding

I've banned China and Singapore traffic, then seen that traffic pop up from various countries globally. I assume they detect the block and move to rotating proxies.

Is anyone using something like this? I'm skeptical of scrapers paying and, if paying, paying enough to make it worthwhile.

I had a very similar setup in my college apartment. The main difference is that I had two shelves of plants in shallower tubs. I grew a ton of micro tomatoes and herbs. It was awesome.

Yeah, I would call your boat a yacht too because of the sleeping cabin.

You get access to Amazon's product API only after showing a certain level of success as an affiliate.

What's the definition of a yacht? I used to talk about small yachts like yours until somebody called me out and said boats that small aren't yachts. I looked it up and I'm pretty sure they were right.

Buying a boat that size is definitely something I want to do some day.

I'm not entirely against it either. I want everyone everywhere to have the best opportunities. I'm ok with things adjusting a little bit globally even if that means my own earnings go down a bit.

It is interesting though seeing US tech companies, making US level revenue streams, with their US owners making massive profits go from hiring highly paid Americans to hiring overseas people for 25% or less.

Not to be hyper-nationalistic or anything like that, but US tech workers used to get to take advantage of the wealth of the US tech industry. Obviously lots still to do, but many people are unemployed for a long time right now or taking jobs at lower pay. Meanwhile the US owners are making record profits. Feels like a part of the system isn't working anymore.

All that said, I also can't really justify hiring an American developer over an Eastern European developer in many cases. Not all, but many.

I'm worried about off shoring. In the past few years I've consulted or been asked to consult at companies who are either off shoring or have offshored most of their engineering team to places like Ukraine. From what I've seen it's been successful. The engineers there are much cheaper, are just as competent, and work much harder, plus their communication in English is great.

High skilled welding pays pretty decent too. I know people making $200k doing stuff like welding titanium at chip fabs or stainless steel at rocket factories.

Manage your energy, not your output. You have a finite amount of energy per day and you get to decide where to use it.

Are they really sharing anything without your consent though? IMDB is part of Amazon.

Not personally, but I've got friends who are now giving engineers interviews like "Use Claude Code to understand this codebase and explain it to me" or "Use Claude Code to find the cause of this bug".

Those seem practical to me.

Gotcha. I don't use iOS so I haven't had that experience. On OSX, Ubuntu, and Android it's been just a few taps to connect to a network printer and install drivers.

I think that might be a clue for you. This might be a problem most felt by iOS users. Could determine how you market such a a device.

Interesting. I personally don't mind installing drivers as the OS makes it just a few clicks but I'm sure there is an advantage of not having to.

These already exist. I see wired ones on Amazon for $50 and wireless ones for $60.

Is your device different from what's already on the market?

I think you'd have to also support Android apps or something somehow otherwise it's not going to support the apps people rely on and few people will adopt it.

The app stores are a big moat today.

I regret grinding on classes so much too.

In grad school, I was allowed to make one B. Any more and I couldn't graduate. Once I had one class left and made all As, I decided I'd be lazy and get a B. I worked 50% less and still made an A. It made me realize how much extra I had been working for marginal improvements.

Have a well rounded college experience. Make friends, join clubs, do extra-curriculars, etc. Your ability to socialize and work in groups is as equal, if not more important, to your career success as your coding skills.

Sending a couple of personalized hand written emails or LinkedIn messages per day works. Spinning up an email system to mass cold email just lands you in spam and is generally a waste of time.

It's against their terms to use the subscriptions for business use. You have to use their more expensive per usage payment model. Having a bunch of subscriptions looks like you're circumventing that.

I'll tell you I upgraded from the $20 Claude plan to the $100 plan after I started using Claude Design. I was routinely spending $10-20 of extra usage per day. The $20 plan was enough for my coding alone.

Meta has hit me with over 1,000 requests per second. Luckily it tripped my rate limiting but geez.

I haven't looked at it in over a year. I haven't bothered trying to ask a question in 10 years. They were killing themselves before AI by being openly hostile to people asking questions.