GPT 5.4 and Claude Opus/Sonnet 4.5/4.6 are now billed at API rates for all users, even enterprise customers. Previously, they were subsidizing these models around a factor of 10x, billing per request and not per token. Composer 2 bills for $0.08 per request on the fast model, and $0.04 per request on the slower model - no matter the tokens used.

It seems like they are targeting Enterprise above all else, relying on a enterprises signing up a bunch of paying users that rarely touch Cursor to subsidize the power users using an excessive amount of Composer tokens. It's a fair strategy, as cursor seems to increase output by 20-30% so the price is well worth it for Enterprise customers.

This is a key candidates to use AI as we have built hundreds of warehouses in the past. We have a standard product that spans over a hundred thousand lines of code to build upon. Still, we rely on copying code from previous projects if features have been implemented before. We have stopped investing in the product to migrate everything to microservices, for some reason, so this code copying is increasingly common as projects keep getting more complex.

Teams to implement warehouses are generally around eight developers. We are given a design spec to implement, which usually spans a few hundred pages.

AI has over doubled the speed at which I can write backend code. We've done the same task so many times before with previous warehouses, that we have a gold mine of patterns that AI can pick up on if we have a folder of previous projects that it can read. I also feel that the code I write is higher quality, though I have to think more about the design as previously I would realize something wouldn't work whilst writing the code. At GWT though, it's hopeless as there's almost no public GWT projects to train an AI on. It's also very helpful in tracing logs and debugging.

We use Cursor. I was able to use $1,300 tokens worth of Claude Opus 4.6 for a cost of $100 to the company. Sadly, Cursor discontinued it's legacy pricing model due to it being unsustainable, so only the non-frontier models are priced low enough to consistently use. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when this new pricing model takes affect tomorrow, I guess I will have to go back to writing code by hand or figure out how to use models like Gemini 3.1. GPT models also write decent code, but they are always so paranoid and strictly follow prompts to their own detriment. Gemini just feels unstable and inconsistent, though it does write higher quality code.

I'm not being paid any more for doubling my output, so it's not the end of the world if I have to go back to writing code by hand.

edit: My $40/month subscription used $662 worth of API credits.

After the first few initial customers put in tickets to unlock their phones after 60 days passed, Straight Talk changed their policy from 60 days since activation to 60 days of active service, breaking the FCC guidelines knowing that no one would sue them in a federal court over a small amount. They forced users to buy a second month of service to unlock the phone. One user even successfully won in small claims court for breach of contract since Straight Talk refused to activate their phone, since you can't just change the contract after the sale is complete. You sadly can't sue for breaching FCC policies in small claims, that requires hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lawyers. I put in a FCC complaint over this, but the FCC more or less ignored it.

Verizon is just doing this as a pretext. It's a continuation of them ignoring this policy after users were buying cheap phones to use on other carriers and waiting 60 days. It just looks better to claim you are defeating criminals.

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The only difference is that meat, fat, dairy, fruits and vegetables are grouped together with this new pyramid with grains on the bottom. while south park puts fats -> meat and dairy -> fruits and vegetables -> grains as the order.

Cursor's tab completion is better, but it doesn't seem to have a concept of not trying to tab complete. IntelliJ is correct half the time for completing the rest of the line and only suggests when it is somewhat confident in its answer.

https://github.com/UltraVanilla/paper-zstd/blob/main/patches...

from the author of this patch on discord - the level 9 for compression isn't practical and is too slow for a real production server but it does show the effectiveness of zstd with a shared dictionary.

  So you start off with a 755.2 MiB world (in this test, it is a section of an existing DEFLATE-compressed world that has been lived in for a while). If you recreate its regions it will compact it down to 695.1 MiB

  You set region-file-compression=lz4 and run --recreateRegionFiles and it turns into a 998.9 MiB world. Makes sense, worse compression ratios but less CPU is what mojang documented in the changelog. Neat, but I'm confused as to what the benefits are as I/O increasingly becomes the more constrained thing nowadays. This is just a brief detour from what I'm really trying to test

  You set region-file-compression=none and it turns into a 3583.0 MiB world. The largest region file in this sample was 57 MiB

  Now, you take this world, and compress each of the region files individually using zstd -9, so that the region files are now .mca.zst files. And you get a world that is 390.2 MiB

Additionally, when I first got it, I found that I was only getting 40 minutes of deep sleep which is why I was always somewhat tired. After adding magnesium to my diet I am getting around 70 minutes of deep sleep. I wouldn't have been able to pinpoint this without the data. The apple watch is the best sleep tracker [1] so your data might be too noisy to find results.

[1] https://youtu.be/LPqtfC70QTU?si=6tTayfNCkcJwDayW&t=12m30s

Minecraft server software marketshare is tracked with bstats. Paper (58.3%) is a fork of Spigot (21.3%) and is more open to contributions and has a lot more performance enhancements. Spigot continues CraftBukkit which implements the Bukkit API. Spigot only really exists to update to the latest game version and no longer receives performance enhancements. Purpur (10.1%) also exists and forks paper, and add gameplay features that couldn't be forked into Paper.

The largest non-bukkit competitor is Fabric, which is nice because by default it changes no gameplay behavior. Spigot and all forks change gameplay behavior to improve performance and make implementing the API easier in subtle ways. Paper is more suitable for a public server as it patches exploits by default while Fabric is better for a more technical or private server as it doesn't break vanilla behavior .

Bukkit-based servers can be made compatible with Bedrock edition with the Geyser plugin