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willsmith72 commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless

eek2121 · 5 days ago

Also: a large amount of folks seem to think Claude code is losing a ton of money. I have no idea where the final numbers land, however, if the $20,000 figure is accurate and based on some of the estimates I've seen, they could've hired 8 senior level developers at a quarter million a year for the same amount of money spent internally.

Granted, marketing sucks up far too much money for any startup, and again, we don't know the actual numbers in play, however, this is something to keep in mind. (The very same marketing that likely also wrote the blog post, FWIW).

willsmith72 · 5 days ago

this doesn't add up. the 20k is in API costs. people talk about CC losing money because it's way more efficient than the API. I.e. the same work with efficient use of CC might have cost ~$5k.

but regardless, hiring is difficult and high-end talent is limited. If the costs were anywhere close to equivalent, the agents are a no-brainer

willsmith72 commented on IBM to acquire Confluent confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12

phyzome · 2 months ago

"Actual 9 to 5", meaning the standard 40 hour work week?

If someone is telling you to work more than 40 hours a week in a salaried position, and they're not paying out the nose, you're being scammed.

willsmith72 · 2 months ago

depends, "out the nose" is relative based on what else you could be doing and what else is out there

and no job i've had considered 9-5 40 hours after a 1 hour lunch break

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willsmith72 · 2 months ago

including downdetector... that's annoying https://downdetector.com/status/npm/

willsmith72 commented on Mixpanel Security Breach mixpanel.com/blog/sms-sec... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

zdmc · 2 months ago

@sama has raised lots of $ so why risk these types of issues by outsourcing what you have the funding to build and control in-house? plausible deniability? (similar with their prev? use of auth0)

willsmith72 · 2 months ago

you shouldn't try to innovate on everything, have to draw the line on buy/build somewhere

willsmith72 commented on Mixpanel Security Breach mixpanel.com/blog/sms-sec... · Posted by u/jaredwiener

kevcampb · 2 months ago

The title here is misleading. The original article does not state breach and at no point have Mixpanel used that term.

willsmith72 · 2 months ago

Well OpenAI say users' names, emails and locations have been divulged, one of them is going to accept there was a "breach"

willsmith72 commented on Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/pseudolus

willsmith72 · 3 months ago

I just hope that in 100 years time, people will be shocked at the prevalence of social media these past 2 decades

willsmith72 commented on Nano Banana Pro blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

willsmith72 · 3 months ago

> Starting to roll out in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio

> Rolling out globally in the Gemini app

wanna be any more vague? is it out or not? where? when?

willsmith72 commented on Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max openai.com/index/gpt-5-1-... · Posted by u/hansonw

amluto · 3 months ago

I would love to see all the big players put 1% of the effort they put into model training into making the basic process of paying and signing in suck less.

Claude: they barely have a signin system at all. Multiple account support doesn’t exist. The minimum seat count for business is nonsense. The data retention policies are weak.

OpenAI: Make ZDR a thing you can use or buy without talking to sales, already. And for those using containers or a remote system or really anything other than local development with the codex CLI, you really really need to fix this bug. I bet Codex could do at least the client part for you!

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2798

(Hint: Claude Code gets this right by default, despite the fact that everything else about Claude sign-in is a joke.)

Google: get all your B2B AI product managers in one room and tell them that they need to make one single product menu on one single webpage with all the pricing on that page and that the Google Cloud people are not permitted to make anything that isn’t actually logically Google Cloud depend on Google Cloud Billing. Your product cannot compete with OpenAI or Anthropic if people need to ask an LLM to figure out what your product is and if your own fancy LLMs can’t give a straight answer. My company pays for a non-Google product primarily because it’s too complicated to pay for the Google product! Right now, trying to use Google’s AI is like trying to ride Bay Area public transit before the Clipper Card.

willsmith72 · 3 months ago

pretty sure the serious companies are just using claude through bedrock. let anthropic handle the model, outsource the rest

willsmith72 commented on Collaboration sucks newsletter.posthog.com/p/... · Posted by u/Kinrany

iLoveOncall · 3 months ago

Praising people for saying "it's your call" and in the same article boasting about "extraordinarily high ownership" is simply laughable.

The two are literal polar opposite.

willsmith72 · 3 months ago

not at all. me, owner of a new feature: hey boss wanted to get your thoughts on this. Boss: "let's schedule a review for next week, and pull in x and y who are familiar with the space"

Vs Boss: "your call"

willsmith72 commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) · Posted by u/david927

willsmith72 · 3 months ago

Simple feedback collector. Something I end up building in every project, so why not built it once and productise even just for myself. Still building out the dashboard, some clustering, and automated PRs (by Claude Code)

https://feedbee.willsmithte.com/