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Pmop commented on Build and Host AI-Powered Apps with Claude – No Deployment Needed anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/davidbarker

nsoonhui · 6 months ago

>> If I have half a million people come play my silly AI game that I have no wish to monetise - I am gonna be POOR very fast.

But the article says:

  When someone uses your Claude-powered app:

  They authenticate with their existing Claude account
  Their API usage counts against their subscription, not yours
  You pay nothing for their usage
  No one needs to manage API keys

So how would that impact you?

Pmop · 6 months ago

Yep. Meanwhile I’m trying to figure out how can I make something that people would want to pay for, and how can I charge them, if they’re going to interact directly with Claude and burn their own quota.

Pmop commented on Enterprises are getting stuck in AI pilot hell, say Chatterbox Labs execs theregister.com/2025/06/0... · Posted by u/dijksterhuis

Garlef · 6 months ago

Doesn't this mean: There's room for disruption/land grab?

If the big corporations can't move fast enough and 100 startups gamble on getting there, eventually one of them will be successful.

Pmop · 6 months ago

And a lot of them cannot get up to speed, even when they want to. Many big corporations struggle with evolution and innovation due to crippling bureaucracy, created and supported by risk averse leadership. This is usually worse for publicly traded companies.

Unless it is something like Meta, then they have a Zuck, someone smart, with enough oversight and power, who can drain the swamp and make the whole machine move.

Pmop commented on Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic sgnt.ai/p/hell-out-of-llm... · Posted by u/petesergeant

lelanthran · 9 months ago

> If I may ask - how are humans in general different? Very few of us invent new ideas of significance - correct?

Firstly, "very few" still means "a large number of" considering how many of us there are.

Compared to "zero" for LLMs, that's a pretty significant difference.

Secondly, humans have a much larger context window, and it is not clear how LLMs in their current incarnation can catch up.

Thirdly, maybe more of us invent new ideas of significance that the world will just never know. How will you be able to tell if some plumber deep in West Africa comes up with a better way to seal pipes at joins? From what I've seen of people, this sort of "do trivial thing in a new way" happens all the time.

Pmop · 9 months ago

Not only "our context window" is larger but we can add and remove from it on-the-fly, or rely on somebody else who, for that very specific problem, has a far better informed "context window", that BTW they're adding to/removing from on-the-fly as well.

Pmop commented on Mark Zuckerberg explains why so many tech companies are doing layoffs businessinsider.com/mark-... · Posted by u/Octabrain

Zanfa · 2 years ago

> Translation: They all saw Twitter cut 80% of its staff and yet is still online.

Is it though? Any time there's a Twitter link, clicking on it has at least a 1/3 chance of seeing "Something went wrong. Try again?".

Pmop · 2 years ago

Twitter as a non critical application can afford to malfunction for a couple of minutes or maybe hours even.

I think they're not understaffed, for now. They're delivering new features and fixing most bugs. A understaffed engineering team usually struggles with that.

Pmop commented on Sora: Creating video from text openai.com/sora... · Posted by u/davidbarker

ij09j901023123 · 2 years ago

We thought programmers, fast food workers, and drivers would be automated first. Turns out, it's movie / video, actors, editors and artists....

Pmop · 2 years ago

We all are going to get automated out of the workforce together :)

Pmop commented on Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video] youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUE... · Posted by u/541

brap · 2 years ago

>if you open up any Rails application, it looks basically the same in structure whether it is the biggest Rails app there is or a new one

I've never worked with Rails, but this sounds amazing. One of the things I really hate about the Node.js ecosystem is that there are no clear conventions, the structure is always different even when the same framework is used. It's a mess. The exception is probably Next.js but it's more frontend-y.

Pmop · 2 years ago

Not "any" but "most". I've worked for a company whose RoR codebase/structure looked completely different from the usual because they used a Domain Driven Design-inspired architecture.

Pmop commented on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? · Posted by u/imadkhan

firefoxd · 2 years ago

I hate to say this, stop applying.

Find a recruiter on LinkedIn. This is what it has come to. There are thousands of resumes being sent at my company, yet the recruiter can't find anyone. Why? Because no one is applying through her link. The regular resume channel is reserved for bots at this point. Contact a person and you have more chances.

Pmop · 2 years ago

I also had good results with recruiters. They will actually get you at the door, so you better be prepared. Seems to be a decent strategy for people who are bad at networking like I am.

Pmop commented on Let us serve you, but don't bring us down blog.archive.org/2023/05/... · Posted by u/_delirium

pfooti · 3 years ago

I run a system at my employer that occasionally gets scraped by malicious users. It can be used to infer the purchasability of a specific domain, which is a moderately-interesting API endpoint, since that requires talking to domain registries. For a while, nobody cared enough about it to abuse the endpoint. But then we started getting about 40 QPS of traffic. We normally get less than 1.

I was keeping an eye on it, because we are hard-capped at 100 QPS to our provider, beyond that and they start dropping our traffic (and it is an outside provider, bundling domain registries like verisign and stuff), which makes regular users break if their traffic gets unlucky.

Anyway, after a week of 40qps, they start spiking to 200+, and we pull the plug on the whole thing: now each request to our endpoint requires a recaptcha token. This is not great (more friction for legit users = more churn) but it is successful. IF they had only kept their QPS low, nobody would have cared. I wanted to send some kind of response code like, "nearing quota".

FTR before people ask: it was quite difficult to stop this particular attack, since it worked like a DDOS, smeared across a _large_ number of ipv4 and ipv6 requesters. 50 QPS just isn't enough quota to do stuff like reactively banning IP numbers if the attacker has millions of IPs available.

Pmop · 3 years ago

There's a demand, why not supply it, and make money while you are at it?

This reminds me of the RMT driven botting problem in WoW (World of Warcraft). Instead of fighting the neverending game of cat and mouse against botters, Blizzard just decided to supply the long reprimanded demand for in-game currency by creating the WoW token, and they make money while they're at.

Pmop commented on The taxman will eventually come for AI, too bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/elsewhen

bitshiftfaced · 3 years ago

If AI automates away the workforce to the point that we have less annual tax receipts, then I'd also expect two other things to happen:

1) Everything becomes cheaper due to this automation, and

2) The cost of public services that these taxes pay for become cheaper due to this automation

Pmop · 3 years ago

Yeah but people will still have to generate excess produce somehow in order to have something to trade for those (now cheaper) goods, and with automation taking both skilled and unskilled jobs out of the market, I keep wondering what kind of jobs will be left available for the average Joe.

Pmop commented on Iceland long term visa for remote workers island.is/en/get-long-ter... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

r00f · 3 years ago

I have always been blown away by money requirements for such visas, in many countries. Show monthly income of 1000000 ISK. Over 7k USD. Why?

I used to live in Dubai, which is considered pretty expensive place, and never spent over 2500 per month, despite dining out almost all the time. Maybe 3000 if I needed some purchases like clothing or hobbies stuff. I get it, Numbeo says Iceland is 13% more expensive, but 7k? What exactly kind of lifestyle are they expecting from humble nomad?

Not all nomads work remotely for FAANG. Some live happy nomad life with much lower income.

Pmop · 3 years ago

Isn't Iceland inhabited by like 340k people? Maybe they're testing the waters or trying to limit how many people end up moving there.

Overall I agree. DNs would use Portugal's D7 to move in (in an exception of what the visa was originally intended to), but then Portugal introduced a DN visa which now requires a much higher income than what D7 requires, I think 4x times more than D7.