AstroBen

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by AstroBen 4mo ago
Yeah, fair point. They're certainly trying to push it in that direction but so far there are still alternatives. I've seen age verification get a hell of a lot of pushback so that's encouraging.
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by AstroBen 4mo ago
Yeah, but you're not beholden to them. There are 100 different hosts you can use if you own your own domain. If a host changes in a way you don't like, just move your domain elsewhere. If you're using Gmail, you're stuck
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by AstroBen 4mo ago
Why is it an issue? I don't care what other people do with their email.
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by AstroBen 4mo ago
If it's not deterministic you can never fully trust it. In a deterministic abstraction I don't need to audit the lower levels.
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by AstroBen 4mo ago
If you don't feel that's worth it you can use Gmail, yeah.
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by AstroBen 4mo ago
It's not just work meetings. This is being taken to healthcare settings, also.
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by AstroBen 4mo ago
Register your own domain and use that for your email, and you'll no longer be held hostage by Google. Takes almost no effort and will cost you a few dollars a month.
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by AstroBen 4mo ago
They're different goals though. Someone selling software is doing it to put a roof over their heads and money in their retirement accounts. If you straight up replace that with working on passion projects and giving them away you get..
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by AstroBen 4mo ago
I wonder if you'd also be arguing for libre software to reject available funding? What's the difference? The Ruby on Rails foundation brings in a million per year: https://rubyonrails.org/foundation The Linux foun
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
> That's not "AI tries to design something". That's an AI that has been trained, by the prompt stack, to behave like a senior designer with a working filesystem, a deterministic palette library, and a checklist cultur
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
The only reasonable thing to do if you care about the longevity of your workflow is to build it around open-weight models. If you choose to not be able to get work done without Claude you're at the mercy of whatever they want.
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
Not really. A person will eventually drink dirty water if it was the only thing available in a desert. There's very little competition for SOTA models. The models themselves also weren't built by Claude. The current revenue has al
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
Even if this is right, by responding to the public issue here he's taking on some level of customer support. A simple "I forwarded the refund request to the relevant team and you should hear back from them" would be a million
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
> bad customer service seems firmly in the "better to stay and advocate doing better from the inside" category How about Anthropic agreeing to a $1.5 billion settlement for perhaps the biggest theft in history? Weird how people
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
A real employee (bcherny) read the issue, responded that the bug was fixed, and then completely ignored the request for a refund.
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
So much of Apple's growth is anti-consumer. You can't repair your device. They're intently focused on locking you in as much as possible, making it hard to leave, and not by making such a good product. They try their best to
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
> What’s not talked about is the long-term consequences of falling into these groups where excessive drug self-experimentation is normalized. Lots of people from the 2010-ish era of "aesthetics" and steroids are having heart is
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
I only see this being the case for throwaway code and prototypes. For production code you want to keep long term it's not so clear cut.
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
> skimming through an alien looking codebase, scratching your head trying to figure what crazy abstraction the last person who touched this code had in mind. Oh shit it was me? That made so much more sense back then This is exactly how y
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
I wish more was being invested in AI autocomplete workflows. That was a nice middle-ground. But yeah my hunch is "the old way" - although not sure we can even call it that - is likely still on par with an "agentic" workf
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
I'd be very surprised if they're not already doing this.
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
Design is very hard to verbally describe, and AI doesn't have good judgement on what is easy to use or attractive.
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it, either. Well organized CSS is much nicer to work with. On the other hand, I'd prefer Tailwind to badly organized CSS.
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
Figma's stock has been on a sharp downward trend over the last year. This isn't a notice-able change to their stock price at all. They're down 30% just in the last month, with many days being -5% to -10%. They're down 80
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
"attractive things work better" There have been studies showing aesthetics matter quite a bit for UX - users perceive things that are attractive as being easier to use and less frustrating.
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
Surely they weren't trying to be deceptive... surely.
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
seems like this $100 replaced the $200 plan So.. cheaper?
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
without a human control how do I put these results into context? It doesn't matter that they "hoped" for $2.50/lead
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
This was due to Claude Code the agent harness. 4.6 was trained to use tools and operate in an agent environment. This is different from there being a huge bump in the underlying model's intelligence. The takeaway here I think is that t
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by AstroBen 5mo ago
> Programming is only a part of the job devs are doing. Programming is a huge part of the job. In a world where AI does the programming we're going to need 80% fewer software professionals. It won't be a full replacement of the

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