If i had a euro for every time I started writing a compiler, and got lost in the parser weeds, i d have ... At least couple of euros

Motivational comment to remind OP that his life matters, even and especially, in difficult times

You talking like a bite must happen. No it's not. Source: myself, we ve had a dozen of dogs. Among them : rotweiler, new foundlands, montagne de pyrénées, terrier, and dozens of chihuahua and spitzs

I am on latest Fedora Gnome, and tab switching between windows randomly stucks. It's so annoying, i had to go back to X11, even if handles badly high dpi laptop; the alternative being to reboot randomoy in the middle of the work

Is there any way to attract bumblbees in one's landplot?

My grandfather had these hedge like bushes with giant red flowers lining the front windows that always had bumblebees. Im not great with identifying flowers; looked like Hibiscus maybe, but in a somewhat dense bush or hedge structure. Anyway, the bumblebees loved that. Didn't notice them anywhere else on the property, and the first time I saw them (4-5yo) I was quite terrified and would have remembered. They were huge and fury with bold colors and not afraid me, but not so scary after I learned about paper wasp from playing around in the wood-shed.

It really depends on where you live. I've found this site useful:

https://xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/pollinator-friend...

Make a few beds and allow them to be "wild" based on your region. All sorts of pollenating insects will show up, eventually.

They're after low-lying flowering plants, on my property. Basically weeds in the grass.

I dont know what world you/I are living in. I do ask claude to enumerate/explain concepts i am not familiar with. I never approached the free tier limit (is there one?). At work, we have a webpage which ia basically a chat to different models, sometimes i use it

Would I be paying 20€ to ask those questions? I dunno, i dont feel any particular need. Would I be paying 200€?! Are you insane hell no

People aren't paying $200 to chat, they're paying to have ClaudeCode or Cowork or Claude for Chrome do the work instead.

The question should really be what is the reservation price of existing buyers.

At some point the price will rise. But the value has to have risen for existing buyers to be ok with that - but can they perceive the value? Hmmm difficult to tell. Benchmarks are not an objective way to measure that.

In the long run google is most likely to acquire a serious cost advantage given their level of vertical integration.

We've been experimenting with claude code handling jira tickets and opening PR -- we're starting with Opus. It costs about $1 per PR that gets merged-- how much does it cost to have a software engineer do that PR? That's your price sensitivity. It will only get cheaper as models get more efficient and people get better at using them, though.

You’re operating in a micro perspective.

Managers of firms care about impact of financials. They don’t care about the metrics you are measuring / gaming. Ultimately all ‘progress’ has to show in the cash flows.

Are you taking more cost reduction projects and more revenue-generating projects? Are you actually delivering? Are customers perceiving you to be as trusted as before? Etc. are the only things that matter. ‘Show me the money’.

To me this is akin to the discussion re. Scrum, agile etc. Who cares? Show me the money.

Totally agree. We cut the scrum this week it is so impractical in the modern world.

This week my spending is > $2000 , and my ceo is very happy, another top user burned $1600.

You personally will not pay , but these who will will replace people who are not productive.

That’s actually the limiting factor. There will be top 5% of developers who will throw away on the street remaining 95%. No EU socialism will protect the rest . It is very unclear what is the new world market , with no web developers , no custom dashboard teams , no analytics teams , no devops whose role is to babysit human devs. From one side it’s a market for opportunity to automate , but human devs are generators of unlimited inefficiencies. Once the market settles down , the demand for lots of tools will shrink.

On my spendings to anthropic . I’m a manager, and top user I burn tokens on tickets creation , planing , even sprint filtering , for sure the most went to coding. Bugs are getting fixed by just sharing a screenshot and a sentence or two of description in 80% of the cases , all the way including to PR creation and making sure release is live and good with tests.

There are ways to cut the cost a bit , maybe 30-40% but it’s not practical .

sure, can't wait to see traders having chatGPT license and trying to convince it to explain the P&L lol. But what do I know

Good for you. Not sure how your comment contribute to ... well, anything, but... Good for you!

Of course, I am sorry I have posted my opinion under opinion-gathering topic. I apologize sir. Won't happen again o7.

I have 2 family members for whom Tramadol opened the door for severe addiction. One is now on regular morphine, the other had psychosis. I know it obvisouly depends on the individual, just to dilute your very rosy comment

I didn't mean to make a rosy comment, thanks for the ribbing.

Tramadol isn't all that strong, but it does take the edge off. With a 6 week taper, my challenge was more about the resurgent pain.

I would not recommend Tramadol, the gut complications are debilitating and it's unclear ignoring the chronic pain served me well.

I always wondered : govt needs support for their IT infra; students need experience. Every damn uni / eng school have a ton of "associations". Just delegate software support/development into universities/eng school? I see it as a win-win

Some banks force you to validate transfers on your phone; unfortunately its not the user who decides