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Taking valacyclovir should help prevent or delay as well.

That makes sense. And its even worse of a reason. At least for people living in the US.

Ok so a few thoughts as a former Seattleite:

1. You were a therapy session for her. Her negativity was about the layoffs.

2. FAANG companies dramatically overhired for years and are using AI as an excuse for layoffs.

3. AI scene in Seattle is pretty good, but as with everywhere else was/is a victim of the AI hype. I see estimates of the hype being dead in a year. AI won't be dead, but throwing money at the whatever Uber-for-pets-AI-ly idea pops up won't happen.

4. I don't think people hate AI, they hate the hype.

Anyways, your app actually does sound interesting so I signed up for it.

For input,

- GPT-5.1 is $1.25 / 1M tokens

- You are $0.50 / 1,000 tokens

Output:

- GPT-5.1 is $10.00 / 1M tokens

- You are $1.50 / 1,000 tokens

Am I reading that wrong? Is that a typo?

I had terrible anxiety as a child and what I experienced dramatically affected the core of who I am. It is engrained in me and I struggle with it daily, though after decades I have surpassed a good portion of it. If a small dose can help someone have a somewhat "normal" childhood, then its worth a try.

I think you're missing a more human point: people dislike the effect of hiring and firing thousands of people with zero consideration. They hire thousands because it makes management look like they're ramping up to solve problems, and then they fire this many people because it makes management look like they're cutting costs to be more efficient. It's all about management keeping up the illusion that they're "on top of things", when in reality they're just playing number games.

There's empathy involved in the revulsion toward this kind of process. Please take time to consider that not everyone fired is a $300k/year rockstar programmer who can just as easily walk over to Meta or Google for a job. I know of people who have uprooted their lives and work under the idea that if they do a good job they'll stay on, when in fact the reality is more like gambling and they could be fired at any point.

I pulled myself from a recent Amazon interview process because of how bad they are. At first I had the opinion that this could be interesting and exciting, but the more I thought about how they treated people, the more I realized that the internal culture must be terrible. And honestly I just don't need to be involved with any of that.

Sounds like those ML "scientists" were actually just engineers.

How does this fair with the Vidore benchmark?

https://huggingface.co/spaces/vidore/vidore-leaderboard

If the herpes virus can increase the odds of getting Alzheimer's, then taking valacyclovir is another thing that can be done to reduce the odds.

The IRS does have a free filing service called Direct File: https://directfile.irs.gov/

The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of it, but its been so successful and so well-rated that they're having trouble doing that.

They do, IRS Direct File: https://directfile.irs.gov/

At my last job, whenever a commit wouldn't build, we would blast it into a slack channel with an alert that included the comment and the name of the developer.

> Democrats are cowards and will not stand up against any of this.

They're making a lot of money in the stock market due to their position, they won't jeopardize it.

> DOGE may not be the right answer, but it's the first actual reduction in spending in my lifetime

On what timeline? The week of the first round of RIFs? The first month?

I assure you, as someone who works with in the space where DOGE has played, it will NOT be a reduction in costs in the long run. In fact, costs will go up because of the indiscriminate nature of "cost reduction". When the only people with knowledge of a system are removed, the remaining people cannot run it - no matter what AI they are given. At that point, you have to either hire back the people you fired, with a serious delay of important work, or you stumble for years until it can be figured out at the cost of delays, protests, lawsuits, whatever.

Considering firing everyone a reduction in costs is a shallow, short-term view.

Safety is a huge concern with construction and really any operation that uses heavy equipment. I promise you they all know about Tesla autopilot running into people and will absolutely bring it up ad nauseum.

And I only say this because I think this is an interesting area to pursue so I hope you're successful with it. But a focus on safety will be of paramount importance.

How much safety training have you done with the models? i.e. does it know to stop if it's about to drive over a human?

Right but if the user hates espresso but loves black coffee, how do you properly store that in SQL?

"I hate espresso" "I love coffee"

What if the SQL query only retrieves the first one?

Github + VSCode will probably eat Kiro's lunch pretty soon with this: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/spec-driven-deve...

uv has been amazing for me. It just works, and it works fast.

Right, but that doesn't address the issues that all 320's have. In that case, the airman lied, but the guns still have those issues.

I had a 365 and traded it in. Wasn't even a good pistol, just small and light. Got a S&W CSX and it's fantastic.

A few notes:

- Sig has known about it for years[1]

- A company recently filed a patent for a fix[2] and they offered Sig the rights to it before filing, but Sig refused.

- The Air Force has cleared the 320 for use[3]. In my pessimistic opinion, they probably determined the cost to procure new weapons would exceed the cost to replace lost airmen.

[1] https://smokinggun.org/court-records-reveal-sig-sauer-knew-o...

[2] https://www.wearethemighty.com/military-news/patent-says-the...

[3] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/08/25/m18s-cleared-...

Yes. They have modified the VS Code interface to present the Design/Requirements/Tasks as a first-class citizen, something that you refer back to often. I think it works well. Nothing that couldn't be replicated, of course. Which surprises me that they fumbled so hard with the pricing.

I started using it this weekend to build a greenfield project from scratch. Vibe requests ran out very quickly, so I just opened up VS Code in another window and had Copilot's Agent handle those. I just use Kiro for the Spec requests at the moment, which it does quite well. I think its a great tool, but if someone can copy what they're doing into Copilot, then I'll go back to using Copilot exclusively.

The pricing really turned me off after a fantastic initial experience.

Note that not only has Sig Sauer lied about this and attempted to gaslight people[1], they have also sued organizations to force them to continue using the pistol after they chose to discontinue use due to the dangers[2]

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[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DG6RkWCpkdw/#

[2] https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/gunmaker-sues-washingtons-p...

Honestly if you're a millisecond too slow you might as well not trade at all. From my own experience with trying to get Python to go fast for crypto trading, you can get it pretty fast using Cython - single digit microseconds on an average AWS instance for a simple linear regression was my proudest moment. They're probably pushing it even faster because nanoseconds are where the money's at. Many HFT firms are down in the double digit nanoseconds, I believe. Maybe lower.

You may be right, but I hope you aren't!

I think this offering is a perfectly reasonable option for them to make money. We all have bills to pay, and this isn't interfering with their open source project, so I don't see anything wrong with it.

How much data is being sent to Sentry?