Same though here. I use Claude opus via api billing for tasks not that hard to implement but for which CC takes much less time than I would. However:
* a small PR costs 5-16 usd (I’ve been monitoring this for the past two days). Management is already pushing for us to use Cursor or a new tool called Augment Cod.
* I can submit 4 to 5 PRs in a day
* the bottleneck becomes:
- writing clear instructions and making the right choices
- running tests
- my mental capacity for context switching
- code reviewing, correcting
- Deployment
- Even further live testing
I don’t understand how I could have 10 parallel workers without the output being degraded due to my inability to manage them. But I can see myself wasting a lot of $$ trying. And something tells me the thread is just normalizing throwing money at them
I noticed yesterday that there were 5K+ issues filed against Claude Code on github (but down to 4.8K today!), so it may well be that this is what Cherny is churning through.
If you read though a few pages of these issues, it doesn't seem to reflect too well on the quality of the code (self-written by Claude Code), so it seems the furious pace of development/bug fixing maybe shouldn't necessarily be taken as being the pace of generating production quality code. Claude Code is of course very useful, so people are very forgiving about issues, but I can't imagine most corporate software being very well regarded if the quality was such that it had 5K issues reported against it!
> And never forget that the post-American internet will be good for Americans. Because, in a K-shaped, bifurcated, unequal America, the trillions that American companies loot from the world don't trickle down to Americans. The average American holds a portfolio of assets that rounds to zero, and that includes stock in US tech companies.
> The average American isn't a shareholder in Big Tech, the average American is a victim of Big Tech. Liberating the world from US Big Tech is also liberating America from US Big Tech.
I think his main point, and what can’t be overcome without a cultural shift is on these paragraphs:
> For those in the 3D printing crowd who weren't big into playing, just painting, part of the point is showing off your incredible work to everyone else. Except nobody wants to see a 3D-printed forgery of an official model. It's like showing up to a car show with a kit car that looks like a Ferrari. Sure, it's impressive in its own way, but it's not really a Ferrari, and everyone knows it, and now we're all standing around pretending we don't know it, and it's uncomfortable for everyone.
> Once someone figured out one of your minis was 3D printed, shops generally wouldn't feature it in their display cases. So there was no reason for people who were going to put in 10+ hours per model to skip paying for the official real models. If you're going to invest that much time, you want the real thing. You want the little Games Workshop logo on the base. You want to be able to say "yes, I paid $60 for this single figure" with the quiet dignity of someone who has made peace with their choices
They want the “real thing”. I.e. the overpriced chunk of plastic a company managed to inflate the price of.
It is about the ritual. They want all the love, skill and time they put into this craft to be poured on this talisman. They don’t want it to be wasted on the cheap unofficial knockoffs.
It’s interesting how companies in consumerist societies manage to create artificial value by engaging communities in these type of branded religions (the article used that word, and I think is apt)
>I think his main point, and what can’t be overcome without a cultural shift is on these paragraphs:
GW isnt a ferrari in this scenario. They have come a long way, but third party providers like Scibor, who preexist 3d printing, are still leagues better. Not to mention all of the third party support for their less supported lines, like Warhammer Fantasy. You would 100% put a scibor mini in your display case.
Its not that the 3d print isnt a ferrari, its that it specifically does everything GW's minis do, often better. So the culture has been designed to hate on it.
>If you're going to invest that much time, you want the real thing.
I mean this would tend to exclude even conversions. And people put 100s of hours into those.
>You want to be able to say "yes, I paid $60 for this single figure" with the quiet dignity of someone who has made peace with their choices
This seems like he is trying to enforce the culture, not defend it. I dont care what I paid as long as the result is good.
>It is about the ritual. They want all the love, skill and time they put into this craft to be poured on this talisman. They don’t want it to be wasted on the cheap unofficial knockoffs.
Thats the thing, lots of these miniatures arent knockoffs. Many are. But many exceed, or provide alternatives to GW. This is mostly just a confession note about being addicted to a single company rather than participating in a hobby. GW loves and cultivates this mindset.
I mean, this was already heading to be the case pre llm.
The internet was already becoming ad farms. This is the final blow and now the internet as we knew it will die.
I’m not that pessimistic about llm generated content. I’m starting to use it to rewrite my online and slack comments for grammar, I’m also using it for brainstorming, enhancing things I create, code (not as in “ok ai write me an app” but as in “change this code to do this, ok this is not considering x and y edge cases, ok use this other method, ok refactor that” it is saving me a lot of typing and silly mistakes while I focus on the meat of the problem.
I don't have interest in having kids. But I guess that if I was facing immortality or the prospect of reaching twice my age I would be even less interested on having kids.
I imagine people with access to anti aging therapies would postpone having children further and further.
It would be great to have a game like Eve where there's a "race" that consists of an AI controlling NPC bots scattered throughout the galaxy. Either an "evil" AI or a "benevolent dictator" AI.
Or even better, an AI controlling human players (creating tasks, rewarding, punishing, etc) towards a goal.
The problem is the cost of those techniques. Will it be low enough so that it has an impact on the average (or even better, the median) life expectancy?
Probably, vaccines were very expensive when first produced, as were anti-biotics.
Given we are potentially entering the age of unlimited power (i.e. via solar/battery tech), we should be able to grow ever more food. Combined with global population growth declining we will see basic quality of life becoming almost gauranteed universally. Then we'll have more and more people + AI working on advancing tech (as they don't have to work on manual things) so production costs should drop dramatically.
Genetic high cholesterol can easily cost more than $100k in costs over a life time, even assuming that treatment is successful in averting a heart attack. A one time $100k treatment to fix the gene is already break even. That is before we discuss the side effects avoiding them is worth quite a bit to a lot of people as well.
I hardly eat sugar or preprocessed food. But the biggest improvement in lifestyle was cutting wheat flour as much as possible. The first change I noticed was the weight loss, but I feel less "stuffy" too. I replaced it with corn flour.
Other than that, I really think there is some truth to the documentary Cooked. I don't deprive myself from food, as long as it is homemade food out of real ingredients. I can't afford organic food and the weather of the place I live in is not that great to grow my own food (and my time availability is not that much either).
I know I don't need it. The problem is it is hard to avoid it. You need a lot of planning, specially if you are going on a trip (at least in my country, avoiding flour while traveling through small towns is almost impossible if you want to have eat health)
I don't know why people keep thinking there's something special about the way we humans do calculations vs what could be achieved with a complex enough computer
Math is not about proofing something, or creating a as big as possible collection of lemmas. Math is about creating structures that can use as tools to solve problems. And problem solving is a task done by humans, so math is only useful if humans understand it and have a intuition.
These are not mere calculations. See, an understandable proof has more structure than plain first order logic alone. This allows such proofs to be extended and worked upon as well as real life implications to be discovered.
* a small PR costs 5-16 usd (I’ve been monitoring this for the past two days). Management is already pushing for us to use Cursor or a new tool called Augment Cod. * I can submit 4 to 5 PRs in a day * the bottleneck becomes:
- writing clear instructions and making the right choices - running tests - my mental capacity for context switching - code reviewing, correcting - Deployment - Even further live testing
I don’t understand how I could have 10 parallel workers without the output being degraded due to my inability to manage them. But I can see myself wasting a lot of $$ trying. And something tells me the thread is just normalizing throwing money at them
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