This reminds me of when I signed up for cerebras to try it out and dumped $20 in and hooked it into opencode and the speed was truly insane. But my one session burnt through like $15 of that in seemingly a matter of minutes. I've since used those really high tok/s options for specific application use cases, but would not advise as a coding agent. Much harder to catch issues when it is moving a million miles an hour and then it is too late and it has already spent a ton of tokens.

Have you actually gotten it to build stunning designs? From what I’ve seen it still falls apart very quickly. They can do a decent job at building blocks but usually not putting them together in a cohesive way in my experience.

Well subjectively I've been extremely happy with what it built for me. This was all made with claude design: www.warpgate.io. It's the website for my NAT traversal library. Even has different theme for it, kek.

Assuming they are pointing out what looks like karma farming which isn't really in the spirit of the site.

Yeah it is a dream on ultrawides. I was able to get a decent custom config with Qtile, but Niri is so much more natural. Being able to hit mod+c and center the current window is just so perfect on the ultrawide.

In contrast I’m a fan of the overeager messages for actual updates like these presented.

It is just when after said delivery that I then end up on a mailing list where I get sent something seemingly daily from a single vendor that I’m less pleased.

I strongly suspect that "Do not send me marketing emails" at checkout time ACTUALLY means "Wait 6 months before sending me marketing emails, when I might plausibly forget that I checked this box", because I always do my best to opt out of mailing lists and I always seem to start getting stuff anyway 6-12 months after making a purchase. The Silicon Valley model of consent strikes again.

They classify it as "transactional" emails (like what is supposed to be order receipts, shipping updates, etc) and so "decide" they can send you an "order update" to an "existing customer with a business relationship" 6 months later, instead of adding you to the spam list immediately.

I just received a marketing email from Dell, and in the footer they claimed it was a transactional message. The last transaction I made with them was 3 years ago!

It's insane - I rarely want marketing emails (there are some I do, new products from Saddleback Leather are always interesting) but when I do actually find out about some new product that's desirable, I find that I never get marketing emails for it, even if I'm signed up to things you would think would cover it!

Apple knows who I am, what I've bought, and I'm not unsubscribed from all, and yet they've never told me about the Neo, though they did send me an email talking about the event that might have been the one that revealed it.

Same here. Back in 1999 buying something of a yahoo market website was a crapshoot and you didn’t know what was going on till you got it. I have no issue with overzealous updates. But after that; go away! I know you exist.

It's honestly one of his worst videos, but Jon Bois has quite thoroughly documented how many mattresses they tried to sell him as a result of him buying a mattress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n36R8xlhe1U

Jon Bois worst video is still better than 99.9% of all videos.

Yeah I feel like we’re getting pranked here

It’s also possible this is the first iteration of the loop described in the “A practical loop for training taste” section. Which would be less of a “prank” and more of “using the HN audience to feed the machine”.

The loop (some points snipped for brevity):

> 1. Pick one high-leverage artifact from your week. A paragraph…

> 2. Generate 10 to 20 versions with an AI model.

> 3. For each version, write one sentence that starts with "fails because..."

> 4. Rewrite the strongest version with a hard constraint…

> 5. Ship the final version somewhere real and observe what happens.

Indeed, no taste.

It’s a fun book. Definitely worth a read.

And very creepy too. I loved it.

I’ve found that just not answering any calls from unknown numbers (and having my phone just silence those calls so I don’t even see them) prevents all of this. If the caller is legitimate (e.g., new dentist office regarding an appointment) they can leave a voicemail. And if it isn’t spam and they aren’t willing to leave a voicemail and have me call the back, it probably wasn’t important in the first place.

Sure, I may be missing out on some opportunities. But the peace of mind is far greater.

Seconded. Even if one unknown number call isn't a scam, they will almost certainly pass on your number to ones that are. I made the mistake of answering one last week and since then I've been absolutely drowned in spam calls. Some of them even call a second time immediately after the first attempt, presumably to try to break through DND.

This, my pixel marks almost all calls not in my address book as suspected spam or phishing.

The difference is that the recruiters come to you on LinkedIn. This is quite handy when you're currently employed since opportunities come to you that you wouldn't have otherwise looked for.

Cool, even more reason to dislike it. I want my people doing their work, not wondering if the grass is greener somewhere else.

Your personal opinion does not (and should not) dictate how others behave.

The same could be said of almost all luxury goods.

Disagree - Buying because you like the style or the exclusivity is not the same as buying because you have the false belief that the more expensive thing works better when it doesn't

Someone who spends $10k on a watch doesn't believe it tells better time than their iPhone

Someone who spends $10k on their digital CD player believes the digits it's sending to their digital amp are some how magically different than the digits from a $20 digital CD player. They're the same digits, delivered at exactly the same speed. Bit for bit identical.