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Csv files are fine with a bot categorizing the expenses.

No need to have a desktop app to do entry.

Why would I worry about an LLM properly cataloging expenses (book keepers job) when we keep human in the loop with the CPA to check their work?

I think you don’t understand the problem the AI solved/reduced costs on.

I run a small business. I used AI to do book keeping for my LLC with two members (I have a partner). We had used a bookkeeper in previous years but we couldn’t ignore the potential cost savings of using AI. We have a CPA who said the books look great so we will likely no longer need a human to do book keeping. We were able to cancel Quickbooks because of this. Quickbooks (andvanced plan) alone was $3k/year in savings.

The only “real” competition for Google Workspace is Microsoft if you need a full collaboration solution beyond just email, and 99.999% of customers of such hosted solutions need that full solution. It’s why Dropbox worked even though hacker news users probably roll their own sync solution.

It’s still the best option for uptime, document analysis (on a cost basis), and Google is less likely to experience a significant cybersecurity breach than a less established company. They’ll be fine as long as they stay in the game even if they never have a Ferrari again plenty of people buy Toyota.

What’s fun for me these days is picking up a project I started with an LLM doing agent driven development a few months ago or even a year ago and hit a wall and stopped being able to be picked up by the latest version of Claude and/or codex and bringing it further. Some can now launch some still are too complex for the agent to build. But, it’s getting easier and easier to build personal apps. We are not far off from being able to say “Alexa, build me an app on my iPhone that lets me take pictures of the food in my fridge to compile the nutritional benefits and sync it with my workout app then compare it to the ideal ingredients I should eat based on my fitness goals in my health app and have it set to send me emails where it can find me better ingredients to buy that are cost effective, local, and meet my diet restrictions” and in 15 minutes that app suddenly exists.

If you want security through obscurity you can revert to IPoAC (RFC 1149).

Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.

If it’s not 10BaseT I can’t see small spread adoption.

Some people just want government to parent them.

This, coupled with the nightmare fuel that Windows has become as of 2026, means no one sane should buy a Windows computer. It's more expensive, more intrusive, and Microsoft management clearly has zero respect for its customers.

You know it's getting bad out there when corporations act like the government.

https://www.page-vault.com/ These guys exist to solve that problem.

I think that's part of it, but then the user perceives "personality changes" when the model changes due to differences in the model. Now they have lost their relationship because of the model change.

In capitalism, the rich get powerful; in socialism, the powerful get rich.

CoPilot has done more for Linux than anyone expected. I switched. I'm switching my elderly parents away next before they fall victim.

Anyone attempting to build a movement might find it interesting how Pumping Station One in Chicago is governed. It's a maker space but run by people who care (at least from my experience when I was a member back in 2015/2016). The process for electing leadership and holding members accountable was very democratic and fair, from my experience. They open-source as much as they can about how they organize:

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Do-ocracy

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Member_Manual

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Administration

Microsoft Teams was bad, so they rebuilt it and somehow made it worse. Then they decided to do the same with other apps, like Notepad. I switched to Ubuntu on my computer this week. Linux administration is not something I want to spend time on, but LLMs are able to help me debug why my password manager can't talk to my browser and write shell scripts to fix it... I'm able to focus on work and be done with the Microslop.

The same issues plague old Android tablets. Lots of unecessary ewaste out there so OEM's can sell new devices.

I do this with Chrome recording and Playwright. What I need is an AI agent to meander through my product as if it were the target user and test/break things so I can pass that to my LLM to fix. Does anyone have that?

AI is genuinely good at hallucinating. So is middle management. Probably displacing some of those jobs.

DocuSign tracks your location when you sign a document unless you disable it in the browser. Learned that a few years ago.

The paid internship... The true unicorn...

As an American, my perception is that Europeans work to live while those of us in the States live to work; the highest crime in America is hurting the rich, and the highest crime in Europe is hurting the working class.

I avoid using Outlook on any device, but I wouldn't complain about my Surface tablet's performance based on how poorly iTunes performs...

What are your recommendations for organizations? Is there guidance for startup companies to follow?

They own stock in them and don't want to see that value erased.

This is a smart move. Apple seems so far behind in generative AI it's making Google look innovative.

The idea guy in this scenario doesn't even understand the basic idea that you have to provide "consideration" for the assignment of rights/copyright. If he does find a person to build his software as a favor, he's got potential issues like an unjust enrichment claim or worse if he does find a way to monetize it.

If I somehow suffer the misfortune of interacting with someone like this I often stop the conversation and tell them to visit Fiverr. A half-baked idea coming from unseasoned people is not even going to make for a good consulting client. I tell them to hire a graphic artist to mock it up before they start with a programmer.

I just got some iMessage spam yesterday. Now I know why.

This jailbreak will make it less likely for someone to be able to trust iMessage.