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by phoenixy1 19d ago
AI actually is decently good at updating docs. But the kinds of problems that are being described in this thread, like documentation that varies wildly in tone and target audience or that describes different versions of the same service, or
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by phoenixy1 19d ago
It depends. For stuff like npm packages, where the downstream consumers have to make a conscious decision about whether to adopt the update or not, I absolutely think it's worth getting it right, especially for major version bumps. I m
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by phoenixy1 20d ago
Changelogs are really difficult to do properly. The concept of a "release" is fuzzy in a world of continuous deployment, and feature flags and experiments mean that different customers are seeing different features. The release of
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by phoenixy1 1mo ago
The GitHub bot situation is so frustrating! A good ~50% of community traffic on our repos is spam and bots and to report them I have to fill out a lengthy form and MAYBE GitHub will ban them six weeks later. And I also can't tell wheth
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by phoenixy1 3mo ago
This rule of thumb, when used correctly, is supposed to refer to womens' dress straight sizes. As in, for an average height woman, losing 10 lbs is roughly equivalent to going from a size 8 to a size 6. It doesn't refer to clothin
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by phoenixy1 4mo ago
These are really good changes for your overall health, but what I hear anecdotally is that a lot of the young adults diagnosed with colon cancer don't have traditional colon cancer diet/lifestyle risk factors. There's even a
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by phoenixy1 4mo ago
Yes, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cloudflare, among others.
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by phoenixy1 4mo ago
I think what you're missing is that prior to the acquisition, Anthropic was a customer of Stainless. They did not need to "rummage through [their] data and workflows" to understand the quality of their product.
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by phoenixy1 4mo ago
The front page of Hacker News was not exactly the place where I was expecting to discover that you were changing jobs, but congrats, Tim!
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by phoenixy1 4mo ago
You totally could, but the purpose of the OpenAI/Plaid integration is to help you analyze your spending and finances with OpenAI (using it as a budgeting/financial planning app), so if your spending isn't actually in the acco
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by phoenixy1 4mo ago
This is a common belief, but the CFPB has stated your bank is still legally required to make you whole in the event of fraud even if you handed over your username and password to a third party, and that any bank TOS stating otherwise are no
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by phoenixy1 5mo ago
We just this week launched a new sign-up flow to make it waaaay easier for non-businesses to use Plaid, I posted some details below. Actually, as part of publicizing our new hobbyist-friendly onboarding, we're looking to work with hobb
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by phoenixy1 5mo ago
So you don't have to be a business to use Plaid, but you do have to be a business to buy Plaid via the Sales channel rather than via the self-serve channel. Admittedly, when folks reach out to Sales and ask to buy Plaid and are tol
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by phoenixy1 6mo ago
Plaid has a pay-as-you-go option that's only about $2/month for this use case. (I believe the current rack rate PAYG pricing is 30 cents per month per connected bank login).
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by phoenixy1 6mo ago
Thanks for the details! Glad to hear you've got full Production access -- if any of the security attestation requirements seem unreasonable for your use case, feel free to reach out to us directly (you can email me at ahoffer@plaid.com
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by phoenixy1 6mo ago
Plaid does support personal use (including personal use access for Chase). I'd actually be interested in seeing where you saw that it doesn't support Chase for personal access so I can make sure our messaging is clear and consiste
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Is RAG Dead?: Building a smarter chatbot(plaid.com)
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by phoenixy1 7mo ago
Plaid does have products that do request bank credentials, but those products are not used for age verification. It's very common that a given customer-facing flow will use multiple Plaid products together to handle multiple different
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by phoenixy1 7mo ago
I work at Plaid. Plaid's KYC product doesn't ask for bank login credentials. (EDIT: I originally had a line in here saying "nor do any of our competitors' KYC products, that I know of." but then someone in this thre
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by phoenixy1 9mo ago
My heuristic is that if your interlocutor asks follow-up questions like that with no indication of why (like “why do you want to do X?” rather than “why do you want to do X? If the answer is Y, then X is a bad approach because Q, you should
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by phoenixy1 9mo ago
I work at Plaid, so this got me curious about who their provider was -- per Wikipedia, Mint used Intuit's internal account aggregation tools from ~2010-2024. It's possible that Mint swapped out to some other third party provider a
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by phoenixy1 2y ago
TD Bank has signed a data sharing agreement with Plaid: https://stories.td.com/ca/en/news/2023-12-14-td-bank-group-a...
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by phoenixy1 2y ago
From the article, it's not clear that the prevailing reasonable meaning was Connected Parties. In fact, it sounds like the author thought the meaning was connected parties -- otherwise he would not have bothered to disclose the relat
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by phoenixy1 2y ago
These were popular at my workplace maybe seven years ago, and while I was into the idea at first, IMO it was impractical most of the time. Turns out it's a pretty unreasonable burden to place on people that they should read and follow
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by phoenixy1 2y ago
The context isn't fully spelled out, but Powell is describing the inspiration for "The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?" Those lines are the beginning of his novel and the novel itself is entirely in the form of questions.
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by phoenixy1 3y ago
I can't speak to the Plaid/Square integration specifically and why transaction history is requested in that case, but in general, a common reason Plaid would want transaction history for an ACH transfer is to do risk assessment fo
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by phoenixy1 3y ago
It's not. But an article explaining the real reasons why your resume was immediately thrown out (you have none of the required qualifications; you live in Australia and the job is only open to US applicants; you applied for the same po
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by phoenixy1 3y ago
I work at Plaid. The basic, non-discounted rate for the Transactions API is like 30 cents per connected account per month (or 45 cents per month if you're buying some optional add-ons to go with it), and any customer the size of Intuit
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by phoenixy1 3y ago
I work at Plaid and I think that pricing info is a bit off — assuming we’re talking about just the APIs for transactions data (which is what the budgeting apps typically use) and these prices are in USD, even customers who don’t qualify for
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by phoenixy1 3y ago
All banks work in the free Development environment, but for banks on OAuth, including Chase, you need to go through the Production approval vetting as a pre-requisite. Once you've been approved for Production (and if applicable for the

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