That's a nice gesture after they seemingly changed the rate at which my credits were being used to like less than half of what I was getting a week ago. But I'm getting tired of all of this changing all the time.
Pretty sure I was hit by that caching bug because there was a few hours where I immediately hit my session limit and then shortly after I hit it again all while the system wasn't even working because of downtime, likely due to the increased token usage...
But I think it only lasted for a short period of time.
What's causing the interest rate hikes, Marc? Could it be inflation? Could that be caused, at least in part, by AI sucking up all kinds of things? There's more than one way for it to kill jobs.
As the other commenter pointed out, AI is deflationary unless it’s a scam. Cost increases in a subset of the market doesn’t counteract that.
Tariffs and dropping 20% of global fossil fuel production on the other hand are _massive_ inflation boosts. The US government is using an assault rifle to shoot the US economy in the foot.
> As the other commenter pointed out, AI is deflationary unless it’s a scam.
That other commenter made a very common mistake - confuse shallow econ theory with reality. In practice, AI doesn't have to be a scam in order to be inflationary, it has to only incur higher costs than the labor savings, which is clearly the case today.
The cost of AI has to include the cost of public assistance to the "saved labor" because without that things get political. If you think about it, there's no way for AI to result in anything other than harm in a system which is not specifically built to accommodate AI.
The inflationary pressure is additionally increased by providing the services far below cost on a vast scale. Think about near-worldwide free LLM usage funded by... US inflation, that's the reality.
> Tariffs and dropping 20% of global fossil fuel production on the other hand are _massive_ inflation boosts.
War and war funding are also massive inflation boosts, they should not be missed when discussing inflation.
There are huge swaths of workplaces that run on Google Docs. If you're using features of Excel and PowerPoint that doesn't work on Docs (except maybe fonts), it might be fair to say you're the one with the incompatible doc these days. K-12 education would be one such world.
Yes, Norcal spent decades wagging fingers at SoCal about this. There were books like Cadillac Desert.
Meanwhile, San Francisco drinks clean glacier water that a valley in Yosemite was destroyed to provide this and they refuse to repurpose a downstream damn that has enough capacity to do it.
Can you clarify what you mean by: “they refuse to repurpose a downstream dam”
California has insufficient water storage to meet demand, it’s not like we have huge dams lying around that we leave empty when there is water available to fill them.
You might be referring to Don Pedro dam - but we are already filling that up (modulo what we need to keep empty for flood control). SF has some contractual right they could possibly exercise to water in Don Pedro but that doesn’t magically result in California’s water supply being held constant if we stop storing water in the Hetch Hetchy. If SF gets the Don Pedro water, that means someone else that was going to get it is deprived.
Now, you could argue that the state can get by with lower storage because ag needs to consume less or more groundwater recharge or whatever, but that’s a different question.
There is and have been entire plans that address this, including in the last real attempt that almost went anywhere. You add things like groundwater recharge. I have groundwater recharge in the basin I live in. But today, in 2026, reductions elsewhere already exceed the capacity of Hetch Hetchy by an order of magnitude.
California has rewilded the Trinity River, resurrected Mono Lake, and has protected a lot of its special places. Voters have voted to tax themselves for state parks. I know that the environment, especially aside from climate issues, just aren't sexy right now. But it still matters to me. I remember the Southern California skies in the 1970s. It's not perfect now, but the improvement despite the increase in people and cars is something to celebrate too.
The only people who oppose this are the rate payers in the place that externalized the cost of the Hetch Hetchy on the world.
Some of the environmental word today might just shout slogans and prattle on with pseudoscientific babble, but there have been a lot of serious people in these efforts, just like with the other cases I mentioned.
Crystal Springs isnt anywhere near Yosemite if that is what you are referencing. That being said it supposedly was gorgeous and almost as amazing before being filled with water
Yeah but the Sierra Club enthusiastically believes that infill housing is evil because a shadow falls on a corner of a park used by underserved minorities. So one must assume that the environment is not anywhere near the top priority for them.
It's fast. It's cheap compared to employees. It's really the latter that people are upset about.
As for good. Well, how much software is really good? A lot of it is sewn together APIs and electron-like runtimes and 5,000 dependencies someone else wrote. Not exactly hand-crafted and artisanal.
I'm sure everyone here's projects are the exception, but engineering is always about meeting the design requirements. Either it does or it doesn't.
Yes, it is US-centric. You all act like that many commercial websites are just like automatically doing international business. I am not even allowed to do business out of my state. I don't even need that filled in. You can see my website anywhere, but you can't be my client unless you're in my state. So I don't care.
Any company able to do business in multiple jurisdictions, well, that's just the kind of extra thing they can handle.
For an enormous amount of sites and for an enormous amount of users this is an improvement and the general reaction here is nitpicking and this self-evident charge that it's US-centric. So what. The principle would apply in most places.
In Costa Rica, there are no addresses but there are (now) post codes. You would have to take that into account to do business there. If this doesn't apply to you then it doesn't apply to you.
It's not like the internal US market is small. This solves a problem for a lot of people in a lot of cases.
The problem is this reduces usability for others. Yes, there are many local to a country sites, but there are also large scale global ones. In both cases, you're not really gaining anything other than some clever autocomplete that could be far more precise if the site offered the correct fields so that whatever autocomplete tooling I use can put the data in for me.
The page itself specifically says "and country", however that too doesn't work. Other non us countries may have the same postal codes, or in my case mine is 4 digits, and I had to figure out that "oh, this is us only and it doesn't work at all for me", which was just entirely a waste of time.
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