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gr2020 commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

Can someone comment on the cost of running agentic models? Not for a company but for an individual. I tried "vibe coding" a personal project I was struggling with and left even more frustrated because I kept running into token rate limits with Claude (used inside of Zed if it matters). Did I pick the wrong model, the wrong editor, or do I just need to not be so tight with my money?

gr2020 · 7 months ago

I haven't used zed specifically, but were you using your own API key for Claude? If so, you were probably running into the Anthropic API rate limits [1]. You can either a) deposit more funds to move your way up the tier list, or instead access Claude via something like OpenRouter, which will give you much higher limits.

[1] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/rate-limits

gr2020 commented on OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal github.com/openai/codex... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

therealmarv · 8 months ago

yes! It's great! I like it!

But it has one downside: It's not so good on unknown big complex code bases where you don't know how it's structured. I wished they (or somebody else) would add an AI or an automation to add files dynamically or in a smart way when you don't know the codebase structure (with the expense of burning more tokens).

I'm thinking Codex (have not checked it yet), Claude Code, Anon Kode and all the AI editors/plugins doing a better job there (and potentially burning more tokens).

But that's the only downside I can think of about aider.

gr2020 · 8 months ago

I’m not positive, but I think if you do

/context this_will_be_my_prompt

it will do a few requests on its own to decide what you need in context, add those files, and return back to you so you can continue on.

gr2020 commented on Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way castro.fm/blog/making-cas... · Posted by u/msmithstubbs

thoroughburro · a year ago

Overcast lost me after months of waiting for its disastrous redesign to be fixed. Castro is, in my opinion, the best replacement for feature equivalence.

However, I actually chose standard Apple Podcasts. The transcriptions are a game changer.

gr2020 · a year ago

Is there any sort of dynamic range compression available with Apple Podcasts? I've looked around, but can't seem to find anything. I find it especially necessary when listening in the car, so I've been using Overcast...

gr2020 commented on About iCloud Private Relay support.apple.com/en-au/H... · Posted by u/andrewstuart

tempfs · 4 years ago

Just remember that now instead of your ISP knowing every site you visit, Apple now will.

So where as in the olden days, in order to figure out who you were, some actor had to buy logs from the destination sites and from the ISPs, then correlate.

Now they can just buy the information from Apple. How convenient for Apple.

I know Apple says they will only share your information with trusted partners and only with your consent which is implicit when you use private relay. No one ever asks who these partners are though. Probably the same people that used to buy your data from the destination sites and ISPs...

gr2020 · 4 years ago

This is the point - Apple doesn't have that information either. From the article, in the "How Private Relay works" section:

> when you browse the web in Safari, no single party — not even Apple — can see both who you are and what sites you're visiting.

gr2020 commented on XB-1's wings are officially closed out blog.boomsupersonic.com/x... · Posted by u/howrude

gr2020 · 6 years ago

Somewhat OT - but from their FAQ they say they're targeting a price of $200M for the Overture. I'm certainly no expert, but this feels to some extent a bargain given the capability. Capacity 55-75 passengers. A few data points for comparison (all of these approximate of course, with multiple variants available of each):

Airbus A220 - $90M

Airbus A320neo - $110M

Boeing 787 - $140M

Boeing 777 - $320M

Airbus A350 - $325M

Gulfstream G700 - $75M

All of these can of course carry more passengers (except the Gulfstream), but assuming it's somewhat efficient from a fuel perspective, and assuming an airline could sell ~60 business class seats on each leg, I'm optimistic for them - cutting your trip time in half is certainly something to brag about.

For reference, as an example, a British Airways 787-9 used for transatlantic routes seats 8 first, 42 business, 39 premium economy, and 127 economy.

gr2020 commented on Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’ bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/galeos

fyp · 6 years ago

While we are on the topic of leverage and index funds, can someone explain leveraged index funds to me?

If I believe index funds are going to have a positive return, why not try to lever it up as high as possible? For example TQQQ (triple leverage) looks pretty enticing compared to QQQ.

gr2020 · 6 years ago

Leveraged index funds generally work as expected on an intraday basis - but they're not intended for longer term holds. You can of course try it, but things will not turn out as you'd hope. Here's an article describing what happens:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-advisors/082...

gr2020 commented on LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site zdnet.com/article/lastpas... · Posted by u/Daviey

rolltiide · 6 years ago

I’m still using non-cloud 1password but I cant recommend it to anyone else or my employees because of the forced cloud thing

gr2020 · 6 years ago

FYI, 1Password doesn’t force you to use their cloud service. Even if you subscribe (as opposed to standalone), you still don’t have to actually use it. I switched from an older standalone version to the current subscription version, but I’m not using their cloud service to sync my vault.

gr2020 commented on Stripe Capital stripe.com/capital... · Posted by u/jonknee

pc · 6 years ago

[Stripe cofounder.]

> But one thing strikes me as odd about this whole arrangement. The better a business performs, the quicker it is able to repay the loan, and the higher its effective APR becomes! It's essentially a prepayment penalty in disguise. So you'd better make sure the loan doesn't help your business too much, or you'll end up getting hosed by the loan fee.

Yes, this is right -- if your business suddenly starts doing a lot better, your effective APR will be higher.

What we heard overwhelmingly from customers, though, is that the downside risk of credit obligations they can't meet (liquidity problems are asymmetrically damaging!) substantially outweighs the theoretical "risk" of a higher effective APR caused by significant outperformance in the business. (Stated differently, we're taking the risk of your business underperforming, in return for you paying us back somewhat faster -- but still at a capped rate -- if things go better than you expect.)

I think the model we have makes more sense for most businesses. But there's no dogma; we'll certainly revisit this over time if we find that a lot of customers seek a different risk profile.

gr2020 · 6 years ago

Purely out of curiosity - and you may not be able to, or may not want to answer - but how does a company like Stripe structure this sort of business? Are you making loans right out of your working capital, or do you have separate debt obligations of your own to cover these, or something else? I would imagine this sort of thing is regulated somehow, but I don’t really know... would love to hear whatever you can share!

gr2020 commented on Root cause analysis: significantly elevated error rates on 2019‑07‑10 stripe.com/rcas/2019-07-1... · Posted by u/gr2020

gr2020 · 6 years ago

Anybody know what database they’re using?