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I get that credit cards are a barrier of entry but I’m more willing to give providers a break now that AI agents make it much easier to abuse free tiers. It’s also harder for smaller companies to offer free tiers. If we want a more diverse set of service providers we as customers need to be willing to accept some trade-offs.

The irony in your comment is that you accuse the OP of interpreting the world based on his own warped view of it rather than what’s actually in front of him, yet you’re doing precisely that. The OP did not call Altman racist and made a point to draw the distinction. He also claims his is not the only example of this and is effectively encouraging an investigative journalist and the rest of HN to look into it and verify for ourselves.

Some degree of skepticism is healthy here. An online comment is not definitive proof, and it’s all too easy to pile accusations as part of a comment thread that’s already critical of someone. But the way you readily armchair psychoanalyze and dismiss the OP tells me you’re not engaging in an honest way.

I’ve heard this is very airport dependent

Low income and liberal is usually code for certain “undesirables” that conservatives tend to dislike. Better watch what LLM your kids use or they might end up speaking Spanish and listening to rap ;).

I understand the concern but then to make this available for adults you now have to provide proof of age to companies, which opens up another can of privacy worms.

I’m confused by this comment. The original comments talk about Kagi not living up to the hype. You say you’ve had the same experience and wish you could get LLMs to use Kagi for web searches?

What’s your reasoning for labeling lawyers as low-exposure?

Unions would’ve been useful at a time CEO’s are salivating at the idea of slashing jobs and replacing SWEs with AI.

Thanks for chiming in! My takeaways are that, as of today:

- Using a stack your team is familiar with still has value

- Migrating the codebase to another stack still isn’t free

- Ensuring feature and UX parity across platforms still isn’t free. In other words, maintaining different codebases per platform still isn’t free.

- Coding agents are better at certain stacks than others.

Like you said any of these can change.

It’s good to be aware of the nuance in the capabilities of today’s coding agents. I think some people have a hard time absorbing the fact that two things can be true simultaneously: 1) coding agents have made mind bending progress in a short span 2) code is in many ways still not free

You also need a system that is ok with giving you some of said abundance without you working.

Last year the US voted to hand over the reigns, in all branches of government, to a party whose philosophy is to slash government spending and reduce people’s dependence on the government.

To all the US futurists who are fantasizing about a post-scarcity world where we no longer work, I’d like to understand how that fits in with the current political climate.

I have a hard time telling whether agentic coding tools will take a big bite out of the demand for software consultants. If the market is worried about SaaS because people think companies will use AI to code tools internally vs buying them, I would think the same would apply to consultants.

I’ve seen the code current tools produce if you’re not careful, or if you’re in a domain where training data is scarce. I could see a world where a couple of years from now companies need to bring outside people to fix vibe coded software that managed to gain traction. Hard to tell.

Yeah the “not invented here” syndrome was considered an anti pattern before the agentic coding boom and I don’t see how these tools make it irrelevant. If you’re starting a business, it’s still likely a distraction if you’re writing all of the components of your stack from scratch. Agentic tools have made development less expensive, but it’s still far from zero. By the author’s admission, they still need to think through all these problems critically, architect them, pick the right patterns. You also have to maintain all this code. That’s a lot of energy that’s not going towards the core of your business.

What I think does change is now you can more easily write components that are tailor made to your problem, and situation. Some of these frameworks are meant to solve problems at varying levels of complexity and need to worry about avoid breaking changes. It’s nice to have the option to develop alternatives that are as sophisticated as your problem needs and not more. But I’m not convinced that it’s always the right choice to build something custom.

> I wasn’t politically savvy enough to do that.

Over the years I’ve come to realize that what people call politics at times is just having interpersonal skills.

It’s wild to me that you’d want to spend your personal money to use productivity tools for work. If your work machine broke would your first instinct be to buy your own replacement or to have work pay for it?

> Stack: Next.js, React, TailwindCSS, shadcn/ui, four languages (EN/DE/FR/JA). The AI picked most of this when I said "modern and clean."

I’m not an AI hater but I do see this as evidence of LLMs being susceptible to chasing trends as much as people.

Next.js with server rendered React is not a stack that an experienced web developer would have recommended for a “clean” solution to a collection of financial calculators. It’s the answer you’d get if you asked for the stack that’s trending the most lately.

The site has since changed the content from when I made the comment. It used to say zip code in the label and error.

For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.

Not noticed any changes? Not even the one where in many searches sponsored results take up the whole initial screen and the actual results begin under the fold?

> On every WebAssembly discussion, there is inevitably one comment (often near the top) asking what happened

The meat of the article is informative, but the headline and motivation is based on this statement. It’s doesn’t reflect my experience but maybe I just don’t hang out in the same internet spots as the OP.

> We don’t yet see major websites entirely built with webassembly-based frameworks

I don’t know why this entered into the zeitgeist. I don’t think this was ever a stated goal of the WebAssembly project. I get the sense that some people assumed it and then keep wondering why this non-goal hasn’t been realized.

Did you read the article?

The title change here is editorializing. It’s not a given that this will be implemented and the original title reflects that: “Trump threatens to ban Wall Street investments in single-family homes”.

Why the exception for companies that flip homes? In my area, those typically have really poor workmanship and it’s a good idea to avoid them.

Huh? They absolutely were blindsided and the evidence is there. No one expected ChatGPT to take off like it did, not even OpenAI. Google put out some embarrassing products out for the first couple of years, called a code red internally, asked Sergey and Larry to come back. The fact that they recovered doesn’t mean they weren’t initially blindsided.

People are surprised because Google released multiple surprisingly bad products and it was starting to look like they had lost their edge. It’s rare for a company their size to make such a big turnaround so quickly.

Not the parent poster but I’ve disabled memory and history and I can still see ChatGPT reference previous answers or shape responses based on previous instructions. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong or how to fix it.

How does something like Tailwind lead to a company big enough that you can layoff 75% of the engineering team?

You’re getting some pushback but one look at pm_reduce_collapse and I’m glad I don’t have to work in this codebase.

> I’m also sold on his take on "vibe coding" leading to ephemeral software; the idea of spinning up a custom, one-off tokenizer or app just to debug a single issue, and then deleting it, feels like a real shift.

We should keep in mind that currently our LLM use is subsidized. When the money dries up and we have to pay the real prices I’ll be interested to see if we can still consider whipping up one time apps as basically free

My guess is that “free” is meant in terms of the old definition where you’re not having to pay someone to create and maintain it. But yes, it’s important to realize there really is a cost here and one that can’t just be captured by a dollar amount.

Maybe the tables could be turned and we can build a service with dozens of subscriptions to every VPN detection service and report them for ToS violations ;)

This comment would be more useful if you have the name of the product or linked to it. I’m also not aware of this offering and wasn’t able to find information on it.