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So Fable would cost me 20k/mo at Enterprise rates. That’s around the average cost of a loaded SWE in the USA. “But I’m >2x more productive” doesn’t justify doubling the opex of the Software/IT department for most companies when revenue isn’t even up 10%.
I switched to DeepSeek v4 Pro with OpenCode and am on track for a few hundred dollars of spend this month.
Rewriting your stack from Ruby to Go in 2 days where it would’ve taken 6 months is impressive and fun. But that isn’t upping revenue.
Iterating on net new business features and ideas that are niche that the LLM isn’t trained for are much harder. Is 20x the token cost worth it there?
They could script this to run over a long period of time targeting 1 account, or they could target many accounts at once, and would probably have success.
One of my biggest complaints was that one of the Account Recovery flows was just an emailed 6-digit code. So a 1 in 1 million chance that somebody without access to any of your stuff could hack you by just hitting reset and guessing "123456". It's actually surprising how many other Account Recovery flows across the web I have noticed recently that do the same thing. Not sure if Ory has added the option for more entropy in this code as of today's release though it's been a while since I've used it.
Otherwise it was a great project to work with that has tons of knobs to customize. I commend the authors, aeneasr especially. It must be a ton of work to keep up with all of the auth standards and offer this in an Apache2 licensed package all while building a business around it as well!
This young person sounds like they are motivated enough to succeed at any study they put their mind to. Of course many companies will deny a young person employment based on age, just like they would deny them employment based on a lack of a formal degree.
But one day you turn 25, you are the right age, and you have the right degree. Then the praises for saving the company 70% on their cloud computing costs stop, and the same managers start asking you to work the weekend to fix other people’s code. And if you oblige, the burnout will become as real as a Doctor’s burnout, I imagine.
I’m sure ActiveX and Silverlight removal did too. And iframes not sharing cross domain cookies. And HTTP mixed content warnings. I get it, some of these are not web specs, but some were much more popular than XSLT is now.
The government will do what they do best, hire a contractor to update the site to something more modern. Where it will sit unchanged until that spec too is removed, some years from now.
The algorithm seems sane for modern browsers. But you could probably find an outdated browser - older Android device WebView would be common -where the whole thing breaks down.
So I think tokens can be a thing of the past for modern browsers. I like the middleware, I hope it does show up in ASP.NET proper soon. My guess is they’ll keep tokens middleware around alongside it for some time once it does though, and the decision on which to use will come down to whether or not you want to make sure older browsers are secure.
Part of "AI-native" means being able to really focus on how we can improve our Product to lessen upfront burden on users and increase time-to-value. For the first time in a while, I feel like there is more skill needed in building an app than just doing MVC + REST + Validation + Form Building. We focus on the minimum data needed for each form upfront from our users, then stream things like Titles, Icons, Descriptions, etc in a progressive manner to reduce form filling burden on our users.
I've been able to hire and mentor Engineers at a quicker pace than in the past. We have a mix of newer and seasoned Engineers. The newer Engineers seem to be learning far quicker with focused mentoring on how to effectively prompt AI for code discovery, scaffolding, and writing tests. Seasoned Engineers are able to work across the stack to understand and contribute to dependencies outside of their main focus because it's easier to understand the codebase and work across languages/frameworks.
AI in development has proven useful for some things, but thoughtful architecture with skilled personnel driving always seems to get the best results. Our vision from our product is the same, we want it to be a force multiplier for skilled Platform Engineers.
As the cost of tokens goes down, or commodity hardware can handle running models capable of driving these interactions, we may start to see these UIs emerge.
Claude Code has been an absolute beast when I tell it to study examples of existing APIs and create new ones, ignoring bringing any generated code into context.
This moves the needle for Go but you still need to cut a FIPS version of your software since this crypto is still statically linked. I like this option quite a bit if the Government customers get on board with it.
There are some Go forks maintained by Microsoft and RedHat I believe that do dynamic linking for crypto which requires CGO.
The federal tax credit in the US is much higher than the Chinese equivalent it appears. But the factory and R&D subsidies are much harder to compute.
> These are early days of AI-assisted software development.
Are they? Or is this just IBM destroying another acquisition slowly.
Meanwhile the Dotnet Runtime is fully embracing AI. Which people on the outside may laugh at but you have extremely talented engineers like Stephen Toub and David Fowler advocating for it.
So enterprises: next time you have an IBM rep trying to sell you AI services, do yourself a favor and go to any other number of companies out there who are actually serious about helping you build for the future.
And since I am a North Carolina native, here’s to hoping IBM and RedHat get their stuff together.
Been using $50-100 of Opus tokens through API access per day. Think I’ll hit the Max 20x limits and get put in timeout?
I wish Max could automatically overflow to API access when it times out so I would need to have token anxiety.
Other nice thing about BSL is it converts to an Open Source license after 3-4 years which addresses the concern “what if the software vendor goes out of business”. You can support it yourself or another vendor can pick it up and support it after that time period.
Them can you have it overflow to API credits once it hits the 5 hours max?
But that is a nice special permission for those who are still able to use it!
And that could also be a good model if the plan is to dual license it and sell to enterprise.
LGPL can make it a tough decision to use, since that essentially rules out Single-file publish, R2R, and Native AOT in the .NET world. Your project seems like it could be very useful for edge in which those packaging models can be very attractive.