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Do you have any family/friends you could stay at? This situation is preventing you from taking the time to make smart next-moves.

The consumer version of chatgpt is very good at this if prompted correctly, as it can do a ton of web searches and compile results nicely.

If you're very early stage and you are not on an established market, your competitors may not be visible on google but are (almost guaranteed) on the same marketing channels as you are. For instance, if you sell accessories for cats, you and your competitors will be in the reddit / instagram / tiktok comments for relevant cat articles / videos.

Fun fact: On reddit, I found that a good strategy is to google search for users that are "advising" others for their "favorite" product. It's usually one or several guys astroturfing to get their product some social validation.

They just want US authorities to ban big corporations from using models like GLM etc. so that they can keep selling their overpriced tokens. Funnily enough, a ban like this would close to impossible to enforce on individuals, so I guess their lobbying efforts will soon be met by lobbying efforts from big corporations that are losing from this.

Already 12 points after just 34 minutes. As noted at the end of the article, streisand effect is alive and well and this article is on its way to the front page.

I recently tried it as a solopreneur (you don't really need to leave your job anymore since AI multiplied early-stage coding capacity significantly). Even on my tiny niche (notekeeper + AI assistant for dungeons and dragons), there's a ridiculous amount of competition (1).

I think these are the times of "marketing engineers", aka people who manage to make small tools/gimmicks that draw attention on social media. If you figure out how to do this, you'll be the king of the age of AI software.

[1] Fun fact: the demographics that plays DnD either hates AI (half of them) or now vibe-codes their own tools (the other half)

>The packaging bottleneck has become a hot topic in Silicon Valley as TSMC has struggled to keep up with demand. Dr. Iyer tried to help by developing plans for a packaging research and development center, funded with $1.1 billion from the Biden administration and slated to be built in Arizona, but the Trump administration effectively killed the effort last year.

Crazy how dependent on politics these projects are.

actually, now I just witnessed it acting brain-dead. New release for sure, or maybe fable is coming back?

New release maybe? I did not notice it this time, but usually people reporting degraded models correlates with new models release

I continue working on my search engine for Dungeons and Dragons, basically making a specialized chatgpt for D&D + a discord bot that autorecords sessions and sends you the transcript & AI summary when it's done. At the moment I'm trying to figure out how to make it completely free without sinking too much of my own money into it. I'm thinking maybe running it on one GLM subscription or something like that, and it simply is not available whenever it runs out of tokens?

Anyways, here it is: https://lorepanic.com/landing-new

their product attempts to duplicate your local dev setup on a machine on the cloud, which means they copy your .env / local postgres db, local docker-compose stack etc. It worked quite well for me, I tried it just now (except for postgres + setting up git). I think the product is quite good but still needs a bit of polishing.

I'm a bit frustrated that they restrained EU users from downloading their app, but I guess they just want to avoid dealing with GDPR, which is fair for an early startup!

Youtube revanced on your phone + ublock on firefox and you'll never see youtube ads again. There's also a replacement app for android TV that I forgot the name of that works well. Do not use chrome, google nerfed its ad-blocking capabilities a while ago

I see this kind of first-gen coding agents a bit like the AI-era microsoft excel: you need to be a poweruser to use it correctly, otherwise you'll end up failing catastrophically. Hence the amount of different ways to use it.

Having an "unfinished" product is also a great marketing tool for companies like anthropic: each skill/plugin/guide that you see on the internet is boosting their SEO + social validation metrics.

There is also a significant amount of accounting fraud happening right now, according to Michael Burry: https://x.com/michaeljburry/status/1987918650104283372?lang=...

The comments to his tweet, if true, tend to say that the real lifespan of an AI chip tends to be around 1 to 3 years in reality, since racks don't cool down that well. Not sure if these commenters are a reliable source though lol. https://x.com/xdire_me/status/1987920424978837711

In france, there was an edition of the discworld series literally called "pocket", and yes it sometimes fit in pockets (which had to be on the bigger end of pockets though), especially if you bended the book a little. Looked like this: https://www.babelio.com/livres/Pratchett-Les-annales-du-Disq...

The first books of the discworld were thin too.

I apologize for making you sad, seeing all the comments made me realize that I should have been way less aggressive with the AI proofreading ; I wanted the sentences to feel a bit more Terry Pratchetty and thought a lot of Claude's suggestions were really better than what I had made. I actually agree to your point too

Yeah this was the way I originally started to read his books. The translations were amazing. When I later started to read the originals, I was surprised at how difficult it was for me to understand: the jokes are really designed for native speakers in a lot of ways, and the vocabulary isn't that simple

It's true that AI is making traditional algorithmic abilities matter less in the job market, so people naturally are less drawn to it. Just look at the stackoverflow demise story: SO is also a community for people who like solving coding issues, and they are experiencing a really steep decline in traffic.

But I think the other, maybe even more significant issue is that the market for coding-related tools and services is completely oversaturated these days. I recently saw that the daily launches on producthunt increased 20 fold due to AI. The market for pure software stuff is extremely competitive nowadays.

Really nice simulation! This reminded me of a youtuber that studied chart analysis (in the sense of analyzing financial charts to try to play on the stock market), and through simulations realized that markov processes reproduce roughly the patterns that people usually use in this field ("resistance", etc.)

This is bound to become more and more pervasive, with supply chain attacks happening extremely frequently now. My cooleagues and me almost got caught in the latest Shai-Hulud attack due to some tanstack packages. Noone is safe now.

When that happens, you'll have fomo from not using opus 5.x. The numbers that they showed for Mythos show that the frontier is still steadily moving (and maybe even at a faster pace than before)

Noticed leetcode is also completely down, could it be AWS again or some other datacenter somewhere?

I use antigravity now, I think they made it a little bit more stable, it crashes less often lately. Limits are quite high. Someone made a proxy tool to use your antigravity token allowance in claude-code, I haven't tried it but worth considering if you want cheaper option for claude-code. Antigravity has per model limits, so you can start by using opus 4.6 then use opus 4.5 then use gemini-3-pro before you have to start paying additional tokens.

Apps that require verification of "humanity" are going to get trendy. I'm thinking of world app for instance.