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I'm often surprised to find very questionable repos hosted on GitHub. Such as plug 'n play malware that has been public for years. Not against it, but surprised as most parts of the internet has gone in the kindergarten direction.

> Claude does not use emojis unless the person asks or their immediately prior message contains one, and is judicious even then.

my org has snowflake as its data warehouse analytics space. for whatever reason analysts were given free reign to built streamlit in snowflake tools and the emoji hellscape is truly unbelievable

I wonder after how much editing an LLM output wont be reliably detectable? And what the EU law even says about this. I find that a good LLM workflow can be to generate outlines that are then edited pretty heavily manually to fit into whatever context it will be published in.

OP's opinion about AI coding is pretty obvious in this blog post. Maybe some of that sips out during interviews which certainly will spook the employer.


In the game industry this is actually a positive thing. If you think that AI can write code better than you can, I'm not going to disagree with you, but maybe you should try getting better or more specialized at what you do, because I can ask the AI simple questions about my field and it's completely wrong 3-4 prompts in.

Using this technology to build anything remotely serious, OR EVEN GAMES, is wildly stupid.


I'm not used to seeing informed takes on the games industry on Hacker news, but then I looked up to see your name. Love your stuff, your website was mind opening when I was in college.


Thank you sir


> I can ask the AI simple questions about my field and it's completely wrong 3-4 prompts in.

I'm guessing that field is gaming? It would be interesting to know what those simple questions are and what's wrong the answers if you don't mind sharing.


Multiplayer game networking.


Hate to be that guy but you're likely holding the tool wrong. Being an expert does not guarantee you're one of those people who can easily get good results from an (frontier) LLM.


And how many games have you shipped?


Apache and nginx maintainers implemented fixes one or two days after the author reported, so how do you mean this was known already?


AFIAK, it was already being actively exploited in DDoS attacks.


> Almost everyone I interact with in reality has a deep distain for LLMs and their touted trajectory.

Same here, but I honestly think that's largely due to the threat is poses to their (and my) profession.


Could you link the post?



Pretty sad seeing people take pleasure in the company failing. See past your opinion about it's leader. At the end of the day, it's the company that brought vehicle electrification to the masses and has acted cash cow for SpaceX, Starlink and Neuralink.


> See past your opinion about it's leader.

This is like asking Mrs. Lincoln what she thought about the play. The scope of the (financial and physical) damage by Musk's government meddling is breathtaking, is ongoing, and will echo for generations.


He's not just the leader, he's the primary beneficiary, and he's a blatant white supremacist. He's arguably responsible for the deaths of over 1 million people world wide from his short tenure shutting down USAID[0]. So yeah, I'd say its more than fine to take pleasure in his failings.

[0] https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts


Is Tesla really failing? They have $40 billion cash at hand. More than some legacy automobile market cap.


They're clearly not failing, but if you read comments here or on reddit, lots of people want them to, and have wanted them to for a decade.


Not nearly as sad as people getting emotionally invested in corporations.

Add why should anyone look past their opinions about the leader?

We have the saying “the fish rots from the head” for a good reason. Tesla has been rotten ever since Elon got involved.


> Add why should anyone look past their opinions about the leader?

Because it's the most advanced car manufacturing in the US... Virtually the only successful EV maker outside of China, and it provides over 100,000 jobs worldwide.


Actions have consequences. Maybe an upshot of this is that people will learn not to put all their eggs in the POS’s basket.


> 2.9% + 30¢

Very expensive!


Isn't this pretty much what every processor everywhere charges? I have been out of the industry for 10+ years but I remember this being pretty standard.


It ain't by much, but we're a tiny bit cheaper than Stripe when you consider how much they charge for Billing (.7% for them vs .65% for us). And pretty much every Stripe integration uses Stripe Billing (unless they pair with a 3rd part billing SaaS)


> pretty much every Stripe integration uses Stripe Billing

Isn't Stripe Billing only for subscriptions?


Stripe Billing handles subscriptions and usage based billing now. Most software products fall in one of those two categories, or sometimes both. As a result, most software companies are paying more than 2.9% + $0.30 for Stripe, closer to 3.6% + $.30.

To only pay Stripe 2.9% + $.30 they'd need to only use Stripe just for charges, and either build their own billing engine (usually poor use of time) or use a 3rd party SaaS.


Ahhh so this is mainly for subscription software companies? That also did not come across.

As we approach Black Friday in the US, I'm thinking of the giant volume of e-commerce transactions that are not subscriptions (or usage-based), and of which Stripe gets a cut. It sounds like you are not angling for that part of the market?


Not in the immediate term at least. Our initial focus is deliver an amazing experience for software builders.


That's Stripe's transaction fee, not theirs


When Stripe entered, people stopped caring about the cost of payment processing. I don't work in the industry anymore, but Stripe became rather popular at the time where I worked on online payments. We looked at it, because the Stripe API and services are really nice, but the cost is just insane.

We where never even close to 2.9% on credit cards, and we'd certainly never consider paying 30¢. Part of that is working out of the EU, that caps your credit card fee, so around 1% and 0.10EUR per transaction is closer to the standard. Then you can start negotiating lower raters from there, depending on the number of transaction you make.


Don't think there is a cheaper alternative to stripe. Polar and Dodo is 4% + 40¢


Braintree says it is 2.89% + $0.29 USD. Specifically priced at one bip and one cent cheaper lol


Name "Braintree" is much worse than "Stripe" so them being one bip and one cent cheaper is completely cancelled out.


Standard.


Almost one hour down now. What differs this from recent AWS and Cloudflare issues is that this appears to be a global issue?


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