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This happens with me every year with Barnes and Noble bookstore. I canceled their annual membership back in like 2018, Starting in 2021 this zombie account started charging me for a renewal. I reached out to support and they disavowed any knowledge of how this could happen, had no record of charging me, and no clue how it could have happened.

Since Amex is nice about allowing someone who charged you in the past - keep charging you even as your card has changed, they allow the charge.

Every year I do a chargeback, every year. Amex can't figure out how to not allow it and B&N has no idea why they charge it. Hmmm...

WoW. That's certainly a surprise to me. I'd never expect an invoice after not putting in a card.

I also believe this is totally just a case of "billing and metering is hard, and may actually be a larger engineering effort than your actual service".

I was just looking at them earlier today since our Github actions are slow AF, and while they sounds great, this tells me it'll cost me more time to make sure I babysit it than most other trials.

With most of these, they end, the service stops working, and you have a choice to make: (a) it was worth it sign up, (b) not worth it revert.

Docker sucks on the mac, orbstack is great if you need docker. If you are on linux, use podman too vs. docker.

Two words - Thank Goodness.

Before the flood of money from the index funds arrive, I'd love to see what's the right valuation for them.

It's really a nissan leaf with a nicer leather interior.

Slowly and then suddenly :)

""" Steve Ballmer In IBM there's a religion in software that says you have to count K-LOCs, and a K-LOC is a thousand line of code. How big a project is it? Oh, it's sort of a 10K-LOC project. This is a 20K-LOCer. And this is 5OK-LOCs. And IBM wanted to sort of make it the religion about how we got paid. How much money we made off OS 2, how much they did. How many K-LOCs did you do? And we kept trying to convince them - hey, if we have - a developer's got a good idea and he can get something done in 4K-LOCs instead of 20K-LOCs, should we make less money? Because he's made something smaller and faster, less KLOC. K-LOCs, K-LOCs, that's the methodology. Ugh anyway, that always makes my back just crinkle up at the thought of the whole thing. """

From https://www.pbs.org/nerds/part2.html

Yup, honestly a google spreadsheet could probably do it as well.

I like the "copy prompt" feature, it's super simple but makes it just a few seconds to go from issue -> claude session.

Also assigning directly to cursor or codex, that's how I handle the easier tasks.

We also have scheduled tasks that elaborate existing tickets with information where needed, again that's just MCP but it works well enough

I have to say the new model is quite good at the basics, I've been handing over more and more tasks from Linear straight to it instead of the copy-paste into Claude dance lately.

At this point, more of my complaints are on the harness side, which is odd since originally they were by far the best harness out there.

Support - This is pretty much non-existant, it's community support or sales support.

Interacting with GitHub - this should work and be awesome, Claude code does this well (responding to lint errors and comments). Cursor you have to poke the agent to look at the comments or lint errors, and even then it's about 10% good. Even GitHub Copilot is better here.

Bugbot - I have it setup to trigger manually, but it still seems to wake up and burn 80-120k tokens just to notice it's configured to be manually invoked. When it does run, it tells me there's no issues (but claude or copilot both find real things)

App - When you have both agent window and the ide windows, it's hard to open up the code in the right directory. A simple "cursor ." from the terminal used to do it, now it'll often open the agent window, you have to try a few times for it to work.

I love that they are running super fast, it's just hard when many of the basics break or don't work.

I'd rather have a remote hosted devcontainer and a local IDE. No fiddling, settings pushed on the container (same with plugins to use etc).

The keybindings with the web ide's always are a drag to me, actually the lack of good keybindings.

Yup, you guessed it.

I was the eng manager for that for a bit, added some APIs to use to do code reviews inside of Eclipse or IntelliJ. That idea never took on, but when when I showed it to the code search team in Munich, they loved it.

Critique was a fast follow.

still on the cloud side, cloud workstations and also the cloud shell gui mode are all theia.

I never understood theia TBH

Nice to see you Brian!

Blaze was started late 2005 or early 2006. Eclipse+IntelliJ was also at that time.

The IntelliJ blaze plugin was already started and out when I joined in 2007. My first job was to keep it from being rewritten yet another time, get teams to use it, and also keep it from being cancelled.

Totally.

GCP makes more revenue than Oracle, which is in the 96th spot. Also YouTube was 2x Paramount revenue in 2025.

Yup, the title is "A new monthly Agent SDK credit for your plan"

Now like cursor and github copilot claude will now cost you raw token costs unless you sit there and click a button.

I guess I need to remove the -p from my bash function I use while in the terminal, that'll cost token costs now.

git-commit-message () { git add -u && claude -p /git-commit-message }

that was ~20 years earlier but was so awesome when it was around. That and webvan were better (for customers, not for making money) than anything that existed until 2020.

This sounds just like my thoughts on PostgreSQL's row level security. As a additional layer it's good, as the only thing, watch out!

Yes, I loved my $10 a month person subscription for light coding tasks, it worked great. I'd use claude code max for heavy lifting, but the $10 a month copilot plan kept me off cursor for the IDE centric things.

Just use claude code directly with a pro plan instead of copilot for roughly the same cost.

On wait, nevermind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855565

I tried out claude design yesterday and I have to say, it's exactly what I thought (hoped?) Figma Make was going to be.

I didn't want yet another lovable.dev or v0 with figma make, I wanted the prompt -> figma design which I could iterate on by hand once I got something in place (and also faster route to creating the prototype in figma) to play with the UX of it.

While I love this set of prompts, I’ve not seen my clause opus 4.6 give such verbose responses when using Claude code. Is this intended for use outside of Claude code?

I think almost everyone supports the openai api anyway (even Gemini). Not entirely sure why there needs to be a wrapper.

There's nothing as good as VB6 that's developed and supported by *anyone*. It's not a Microsoft only phenomena.

I think programmers started wanting "real" languages (notice the quotes), and henceforth got more complexity and things take longer, although with GenAI, we may be back to the "draw as screen and do this" that we were with VB6. Just now the source generated should be considered the object code, and the prompt is the new source (at least for those types of apps)

It's been super amazing to see how much they could continue to support newer hardware and keep it going considering that I don't believe they have the kernel source.

It wasn't too long ago I saw OS/2 on some ATM machine that was crashed.

I used to love OS/2 back when developing DOS applications (since I could crash the app and not the machine). OS/2 got me interested in "real OS's" and then SunOS in college, etc.

I'd love to see the policy on review tools to start with, I know even people who are skeptical of getting "AI Slop" thrown at them by agents at a high rate, getting code reviews from some of the SOTA models definitely can be helpful.

Google found that with Jules years ago at this point, same for other automated tools.

When I first saw the headline though, it sounded like someone was listening to one of my favorite Rush songs.

"""

If you choose not to decide

You still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom fears

And kindness that can kill

I will choose a path that’s clear

I will choose free will.

"""

Not in like 20 years, I'll take a look again, it used to be my favorite back in os9 days

I use other tools (sublime, vscode, cursor, antigravity, emacs) none have run into this out of the box.

I'd love to try Zed, but it's unusable on MacOS (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/20806 seems to be the issue).

If that ever gets fixed then I'd look at replacing Sublime (which is still my go-to for quick editing) and then see if it can handle more advanced coding (which one the rotating list of various vscode forks handle today)

cesium or rubidium?

As far as I remember, near each other, but the comment I was replying to was specifically about needing accuracy.

It's been over a decade now since I managed the truetime team at google, things may have changed since :)

Spanner

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