ramesh31 (u/ramesh31)

ramesh31 commented on My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips) efitz-thoughts.blogspot.c... · Posted by u/efitz

pmxi · a day ago

> If you are a heavy user, you should use pay-as-you go pricing

if you’re a heavy user you should pay for a monthly subscription for Claude Code which is significantly cheaper than API costs.

ramesh31 · a day ago

Am I alone in spending $1k+/month on tokens? It feels like the most useful dollars i've ever spent in my life. The software I've been able to build on a whim over the last 6 months is beyond my wildest dreams from a a year or two ago.

ramesh31 commented on US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules bbc.com/news/articles/cvg... · Posted by u/vinni2

nrclark · 2 days ago

That would be doing Californians a favor tbh. Then we'd have an excuse to leave this rotten union.

Coastal Oregon and coastal Washington can come too.

ramesh31 · a day ago

>That would be doing Californians a favor tbh. Then we'd have an excuse to leave this rotten union.

I know this is just frustrated anger, but it does no good. Our union has survived more than one braindead administration before. We fought a war killing hundreds of thousands to save it for god's sake. We dealt with Zachary Tyler and Andrew Johnson and Grover Cleveland. We'll get past this moron and be stronger for it, just watch.

ramesh31 commented on US to review all 55M visas to check if holders broke rules bbc.com/news/articles/cvg... · Posted by u/vinni2

antithesizer · 2 days ago

That is why they're doing it. They're looking for pretexts to reduce headcount. They don't give a s** if the positive is false or not.

ramesh31 · 2 days ago

>That is why they're doing it. They're looking for pretexts to reduce headcount. They don't give a s* if the positive is false or not.

At least we're still at the stage where they're bothering to find pretext. There is still hope.

ramesh31 commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF · 2 days ago

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

The iOS instructions are the most onerous (IMO) but still easy enough to follow. It's 15 minutes of fumbling around for the non-technical person, then they're protected.

(Though, as others have pointed out, this is probably moot. The blocking is more effectively done by ISPs.)

ramesh31 · 2 days ago

>It's 15 minutes of fumbling around for the non-technical person, then they're protected.

You and I have very different ideas of what "non-technical" means. If it involves anything beyond pressing "download" on the app store, it's out of reach of the vast majority of users.

ramesh31 commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

jve · 2 days ago

As a GPT user, your comment triggered me wanting to search how superior is Claude... well, these users don't think it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1l5h2ds/i_paid_fo...

ramesh31 · 2 days ago

>As a GPT user, your comment triggered me wanting to search how superior is Claude... well, these users don't think it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1l5h2ds/i_paid_fo...

That poster isn't comparing models, he's comparing Claude Code to Cline (two agentic coding tools), both using Claude Sonnet 4. I was pretty much in the same boat all year as well; using Cline heavily at work ($1k+/month token spend) and I was sold on it over Claude Code, although I've just recently made the switch, as Claude Code has a VSCode extension now. Whichever agentic tooling you use (Cline, CC, Cursor, Aider, etc.) is still a matter of debate, but the underlying model (Sonnet/Opus) seems to be unanimously agreed on as being in a league of its own, and has been since 3.5 released last year.

ramesh31 commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS

dns_snek · 2 days ago

We really need to add some kind of risk to people making these claims to make it more interesting. I listened to the type of advice you're giving here on more occasions than I can remember, at least once for every major revision of every major LLM and always walked away frustrated because it hindered me more than it helped.

> This is actually amazing now, just use [insert ChatGPT, GPT-4, 4.5, 5, o1, o3, Deepseek, Claude 3.5, 3.9, Gemini 1, 1.5, 2, ...] it's completely different from Model(n-1) you've tried.

I'm not some mythical 140 IQ 10x developer and my work isn't exceptional so this shouldn't happen.

ramesh31 · 2 days ago

The dark secret no one from the big providers wants to admit is that Claude is the only viable coding model. Everything else descends into a mess of verbose spaghetti full of hallucinations pretty quickly. Claude is head and shoulders above the rest and it isn't even remotely close, regardless of what any benchmark says.

ramesh31 commented on Margin debt surges to record high advisorperspectives.com/d... · Posted by u/pera

Fade_Dance · 3 days ago

Cash parked in money markets (which is just a click away) hasn't done that badly. Getting 4-5% has kept pace with inflation for the most part. Especially now, with economic risks to the downside/slower growth arguably growing, cash doesn't look that bad (until rates are lowered, which will put investors in a pickle, and probably force them modestly out the bond duration curve). Obviously inflation (or more specifically stagflation) risks are clear grey swans as well though, so some exposure to gold (or CTA trend following, which performs well in stagflation) is probably a prudent addition to a diversified asset mix looking to protect against the known risks. And as a benefit, gold and CTA are fairly decent black swan hedges as well (but it's a bit pointless to try and protect against black swans, which are unpredictable by definition).

ramesh31 · 3 days ago

>Cash parked in money markets (which is just a click away) hasn't done that badly. Getting 4-5% has kept pace with inflation for the most part.

This sounds good on paper until you realize that inflation numbers like core CPI are tied almost entirely to consumptive costs. For anyone saving cash with the hope of buying assets like a home at some point, you're watching that move further and further away every day. So you're left to either deal with the stress of taking part in the madness of this market, or watch your chances of ever owning anything slip away.

ramesh31 commented on Why is D3 so Verbose? theheasman.com/short_stor... · Posted by u/TheHeasman

ramesh31 · 3 days ago

Because the alternative is big config files or a declarative DSL. Builder pattern works really well here to keep things simple.

ramesh31 commented on Margin debt surges to record high advisorperspectives.com/d... · Posted by u/pera

FollowingTheDao · 3 days ago

Is anyone here wondering like me why we did not have a recession in 2021?

Was it the COVID checks they sent out? Might be a good thing to do in the next recession...

But this current state of margin debt, I do not like at all. That with the reduction of new home construction.

ramesh31 · 3 days ago

>Is anyone here wondering like me why we did not have a recession in 2021?

We didn't? '21-'23 was a bloodbath on the market. How that was spun as not being a recession is mind boggling to me.