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I've been using the $32/month (AUD) subscription, but finally dipped into extra credits to get a task over the line yesterday after I hit my 5-hr limit.

And my god, $15 of extra credits ended up giving me only 30 minutes of Claude Code before running out.

The subscription prices can not be financially sustainable. There is no way that is remotely close to the actual cost of running.

Not to be confused with https://recursive.com/

> I’m not ready to declare that the age of source code is over and our future involves incomprehensible machines editing their own model weights in incomprehensible ways.

Fair, but is there a good argument that this won't scale over time? I think for most people who are "hyping" this - it's more about the paradigm shift we see coming, rather than the current state of the technology.

Unless we use the tools from those companies to write more efficient LLMs and release them freely

This would allow a swarm of agents to teach eachother new knowledge, no? Group learning?

If this is true, I think this may be a pivotal moment in history.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how absurd it is that our world regularly manufactures TVs that we have to be worried spy on us?

Can you imagine explaining that future to someone in the 80s? They would not believe that our society let it happen

Exactly - e.g. I've drawn from 15 years of making music manually, and then used GenAI to implement deterministic music generation tools that I've designed.

Tbh, I am not sure if I will continue, because I feel that it is the feeling of process that inspires people, and this lacks some of that..

Example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KwIopnXdJss&pp=0gcJCSsMAYcqIYz...

I've had one eye on the Proton exit since they made it clear they were not disintangled from Big Tech nor politically neutral. Then they kept blocking discussions about it on their reddit: https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...

I often wonder if AI generated programming is ethically positive, whereas AI generated media is problematic.

I don't have the answer yet, but it is fairly clear that the lowered barrier to making software is helping to untangle us from software monopolies, as people keep spinning up alternatives super quickly!

The descriptions around this are very confusing. Is this specifically the Cursor version, or the regular VS Code version too?

So glad that cryptocurrency is properly decentralized so that one company being compromised doesn't led to massive theft /s

There was a really good line I heard recently about how a lot of the hype comes from people who have has assistants as staff in life previously, whereas most of the population has never been in that position. So don't worry if it's not at all obvious how to benefit from this for the near future (I also have near 0 interest of delegating my personal matters)

Some really good points here. I suppose this shows that some software projects are community-first (like Game Jams), and some are Utility-first (name any). They are often both, but one takes precedence. And rather than saying "all software should be done this way", it is more a question of what the primary goals of a project are.

Sam had OpenAI start the Ghibli style image-gen (movies that are specifically loved for their artisanal quality). The man has patternly failed to read the room around culture.

Yeah, from my experience HN must be pushing "trending" topics to front page and not pushing others.

There are huge numbers of new posts - the ones that reach front page are definitely not the only ones with that amount of upvotes.

I agree it is terrifying because it is unknown. It is also true that the frontier AI labs have not worked well with affected communities at all and often downright exploited them.

BUT I also agree that, like any new technology, people will find mind-blowingly creative paths forwards with it, opening up whole new art forms.

Internet 2.0 here we come!

It's how I currently do Open Source. I like to think of it as a strong form of indirect collaboration - https://johnoestmannmusic.com/indirect-collaboration/

There are many different types of thinking. Judgement is one that humans will need to retain.

Not exactly what you asked for, but I now keep pencil and paper next to me, and that has been incredibly refreshing for brainstorming / mental processing

Just want to say I was speaking with a programming friend yesterday who described this exact same experience at his workplace. The siloing sounds insane - even to the point where people "get annoyed if you ask them questions, because they expect you to ask your AI instead"

I think the points more to an unhealthy workplace culture than simply AI itself

I am extremely suspicious that the White House is going after Microsoft for not cozying up to Trump the same way OpenAI and friends have..

I do think exoskeletons are hugely unappreciated and will have an amazing effect on society, due to increased accessibility, endurance, augmentation, while still keeping the human in the driver seat

I think the real question is "can we apply these solutions?"

It is important that we stay focused - this is theatre. Incredibly impressive, but this doesn't yet show evidence of helping society, which is the whole reason we were doing this in the first place.

I am pretty convinced that businesses will be making custom internal software as a norm in the next few years, and this seems to be a slight push in that direction

You should look into using AI to generate code that synthesizes sounds. Not exactly what you asked for, but I do think it is an approach worth considering: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-i45X5aj94

If the people quitting are genuinely worried about the end of the world, why don't they break their NDAs and share the specifics of what they are seeing?

I mean, logically speaking, it makes sense to break your NDA even if you thought it would save 10 people, let alone most of humanity.

Awesome work. The work truly needs it!

This is incredible. I tried it for quick UI element replacements in a screenshot, and it nailed 3/4 elements I highlighted first attempt.

As I'm finding with the best GenAIs, this allows for granular iteration, which is where it becomes useful in an industry-wide manner.