is there a reason you didn’t consider one of the uGreen NAS’s?

the people that USE the software the most are not the people BUYING the software. it’s why all enterprise software has trash UX.

do you think i as a software engineer like using Jira? Outlook? etc? Heck even the trendy stuff is broken. Anthropic took took 6 months to fix a flickering claude code. -_-

Yes that was my point.

Not relevant point though. I was answering to this "I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years", I wasn't arguing that such apps don't make money.

that’s “boring” reactivity because it’s still just interacting with the text on a computer in a synchronous fashion. The idea is for the assistant to DO stuff and also have useful information about you. Think more along these lines:

- an email to check in for your flight arrives in your inbox. Assistant proactively asks “It’s time to check in for your flight. Shall i check you and your wife in? Also let me know if you’re checking any bags.” It then takes care of it ASYNC and texts you a boarding pass.

- Tomorrow is the last day of your vacation. Your assistant notices this, see’s where your hotel is (from emails), and suggests when to leave for the airport tomorrow based on historical google maps traffic trends and the weather forecast.

- Let’s say you’re married and your assistant knows this, and it see’s valentine’s day is coming up. It reminds you to start thinking about gifts or fun experiences. Doesn’t actually suggest specific things though because it’s not romantic if a machine does the thinking.

- After you print something, your assistant notices the ink level is low and proactively adds it to your Amazon / Target / whatever shopping cart, and it lets you know it did that and why.

- You’re anxiously awaiting an important package. You ask your assistant to keep tabs on a specific tracking number and to inform you when it’s “out for delivery”.

I could go on but I need to mae breakfast. :) IMO “help me draft this letter” is very low on the usefulness scale unless you’re doing work or a school assignment.

for real. quite depressing actually. wake me up when this awful dream ends.

part of me sympathizes, but part of me also rolls my eyes. Am i the only one that’s configuring limits on spend and also alerts? Takes 2 seconds to configure a “project” in OpenAI or Claude and to scope an api key appropriately.

Not doing so feels like asking for trouble.

That's what I did, which is why I abandoned my experiment this quickly.

I'd find it hard to write such an article about how this is the next best thing since sliced bread without mentioning it spending so much money.

good on you! The anecdote of that person spending hundreds of dollar is scary.

Are you all enabling auto reload for personal projects?

I load $20 at a time and wait for it to break and add more.

Can you get meaningful work done with CC at $20 at a time? I load $20 at a time onto the API for general chatting purposes and it lasts a few months at a time. I've always avoided trying CC because I got the impression people were burning $100+/mo, which is beyond my personal hobby budget.

/Not a software engineer perspective working on side projects

I guess if you're letting it vibe code huge chunks. I'm doing mostly handwritten code for my current project with a little bit of "I don't want to deal with this, Claude can handle it" and I've spent $1.26 this month for my 446 lines of code.

But yes I suppose at that rate, if Gastown or Beads or whatever is 300,000 lines of code (just to use a project known to be fully vibe coded with rough LOC reported), that would be over $800.

Don't let it vibe code hundreds of thousands of lines of code I guess.

I was doing that initially, but I think the subscriptions are generally worth it for personal projects. $20/mo is good if you're like me and you can do this stuff maybe a couple nights a week, I haven't run into the limitations on that yet. The $100+ subscriptions are needed if you're doing it every day. YMMV

I'm successful with personal projects (reverse engineering USB devices, sledding spot finder, silly stuff) on the $20/mo Claude plan. I rarely use Opus except for planning larger things.

I keep a master llm.md file and rotate between Claude Code (Pro), Antigravity Opus, Antigravity Flash, and OpenCode Kimi. I don't actually mind hitting limits.. though I'm least happy when Opus goes away.

My entire process is to build a generic llm.md file that all the tools can use and record to. I don't want to be tied completely to any one solution. You can get pretty far without spending a lot on tokens. I can run almost continually, and presently I'm the bottleneck anyway.

For Claude Code, I now pay the $20/mo subscription for pro because I was spending more using it via API credits.

Even if I had to reload manually very often, I still would not enable auto reload. These APIs are crazy expensive and I'm not looking for a surprise bill.

not only that, but clawdbot/moltbot/openclaw/whatever they call themselves tomorrow/etc also tells you your token usage and how much you have left on your plan while you're using it (in the terminal/console). So this is pretty easily tracked...

sorry but that doesn’t make sense.

It’s possible a driver turns a corner (not wearing sunglasses) and suddenly the sun briefly blinds them, while a kid darts into the street.

I’ve seen kids (and ADULTS!) walk on the side of the street at night in all black or very very dark clothing. It’s extra amusing when they happen to be black (are they trying to get themselves killed?) It’s not the drivers fault if they genuinely can’t see a camouflaged person. I’ve had numerous close calls like this on rural and suburban roads and I think i’m a cautious driver. Make sure you are visible at night.

Or if a kid is riding a bicycle down a hill and flies into the middle of an intersection (dumb? brakes failed? etc). very possible to accidentally mow down the child.

HOWEVER, i do agree that 95% of the time it’s the drivers fault if they hit a kid. Poor awareness and speed are the biggest factors. It is certainly not 100% of the time the drivers fault though. That’s absurd. You really misunderstand how dumb some pedestrians (and parents) are.

But….it’s all besides the point. A child that doesn’t understand the importance of cross walks and looking both ways is too young to be walking alone, period. Yes even if they’re “right”. Being right isn’t helpful if you’re dead.

i don’t think you realize how fast modern CPUs are. If this stresses your server out, you probably have no business hosting things publicly on that server. This person is hosting stuff on Vercel using serverless which is the root of their problem.

4 request per second is just noise. it’s like complaining about car noise when deciding to buy a house next to the freeway. Exposing things publicly on the internet means _anyone_ can try talking to your server. Real users, bots, hackers, whatever. You can’t guarantee bots are bug-free!

Dynamic content is _typically_ served to logged in users. Content that is public facing is typically cached, for obvious reasons. Of course Meta should fix this…but using Vercel and serverless in this manner is a very poor choice.

Meta isn’t going to fix this because they have your mindset.

Meanwhile, my website with 48M pages over 8 domains is getting hammered with over 200 req/s 24/7 from AI bots in addition to the regular search engine bots. It seems like every day new bots appear that all want to download every single one of my URL’s.

To me it’s not background noise. It’s a problem. It simply requires a lot of CPU power and traffic. I could do with 95% less resources and have faster response times for my actual users if these bots would just bugger off.

i’d wait any amount of time lol.

at least i would KNOW it’s overloaded and i should use a different model, try again later, or just skip AI assistance for the task altogether.

You’re not wrong. However - the Health app on the iphone (where you can view your health data) makes this VERY clear. Most people just don’t read.

I’ll quote:

“This is a measurement of your VO2 max, which is the maximum amount of oxygen your body can consume during exercise. Also called cardiorespiratory fitness, this is a useful measurement for everyone from the very fit to those managing illness.

A higher VO, max indicates a higher level of cardio fitness and endurance.

Measuring VO2 max requires a physical test and special equipment. You can also get an estimated VO, max with heart rate and motion data from a fitness tracker. Apple Watch can record an estimated VO max when you do a brisk walk, hike, or run outdoors.

VO, max is classified for users 20 and older. Most people can improve their VO, max with more intense and more frequent cardiovascular exercise. Certain conditions or medications that limit your heart rate may cause an overestimation of your VO, max. VOz max is not validated for pregnant users. You can indicate you're taking certain medications or add a current pregnancy in Health Details.”

on the bright side software evolved much more slowly in the 80s. You could go very far by being an expert in 1 thing.

People had real offices with actual quiet focus time.

User expectations were also much lower.

pros and cons i guess?