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We run an internal agentic development harness we experimentally built for working on large-ish projects. first version started as a TUI, but it quickly became unusable for the large scale projects it was meant to work on (essentially PRD to PR, with planning loops, task decomposition loops and dependency aware execution / review loops). The TUI was too state-bound for another agent to drive reliably, and too cramped for a human to review at scale. We ended up replacing the TUI with a headless cli, and every interface we've built for the harness has become either a text artifact (mostly for agents to work) or a web view (for humans to drive and review).
Not-so-funny thing is that the Betterstack dashboard is down but our status page hosted by Betterstack is up, and we can't access the dashboard to create an incident and let our customers know what's going on.
Edit: wording.
For context, the minimum wage is $152 per month (around 75,182,000 rials).
The economy has gone to shit in the past 10 years. The minimum wage was around $425/month, or $2.4/hour back then, compared to $0.86/hour now.
The Rail has lost much of its value since then but the salaries haven't increased enough to cover the brutal inflation, resulting in extreme poverty for the majority of the population and situations like the one explained in the article.
1. Your balance is running low at -65 USD
2. (30 seconds later) your account is suspended, I checked the account an hour later when I saw this email and the balance was -4,000 USD
I asked support why they continued charging our account even with auto recharge disabled, but they just ignore the question.
Support says it's our fault, asks us not to dispute the charge (although there has been no charge yet as we disabled auto recharge), and said it will take 10 days for finance to issue a partial refund (that was 24 days ago).
Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran
People like variety - the initial love doesn't last long. After a few weeks/months it gets boring and repetitive. Learning the shiny new tech is only fun until you you've figured out how it works, but the project doesn't end there and you have to deliver a product in the end. But for most people who exclusively want the "position where they can learn new things" fixing the bugs and doing the finishing touches is no longer fun once they've figured out how the underlying tech works - they leave for the next position where they can learn another shiny new tech and you're left with a half-finished project (usually with subpar code quality because this was the first project they did using the new tech).
I'd mentioned in the blog post that out of 34 tweets that were added to the spreadsheet, only 6 of them were solid leads. But going through 34 tweets to find those 6 is a lot easier than going through hundreds of them over 8 hours.