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New comment by catmanjan in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

catmanjan — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:18:53 +0000

I mean, yes?

Maybe it's different where you live but QA pretty much disappeared a few years ago and project managers never had anything to do with the actual software

New comment by catmanjan in "I’m joining OpenAI"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:51:36 +0000

If its profitable why are they banning people from using it in systems like claw?

New comment by catmanjan in "I’m joining OpenAI"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:51:29 +0000

So why are they banning people from using it in systems like claw?

New comment by catmanjan in "SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:38:21 +0000

It was revealed to me in a dream

New comment by catmanjan in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:19:24 +0000

Ok? Even if they're batched? Grid energy is batched too

New comment by catmanjan in "I’m joining OpenAI"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:18:51 +0000

Are you sure? I thought tokens (or watts) were sold at such a loss that if current supply limits were reached they’d go broke

New comment by catmanjan in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:42:10 +0000

Also interested in this - the kWh figures people talk about do not match the price of the subscriptions

New comment by catmanjan in "I’m joining OpenAI"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:29:53 +0000

Is that just because people pay subscriptions and never use their tokens? Same model as ISPs

New comment by catmanjan in "I’m joining OpenAI"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:25:34 +0000

My understanding was that if everyone paid and used AI the companies would go into liquidation on energy bills etc

New comment by catmanjan in "Kimi Claw"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:02:29 +0000

How else will you get iMessage?

New comment by catmanjan in "I’m joining OpenAI"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:52:43 +0000

AI companies must hate this right? Because they're selling tokens at a loss?

New comment by catmanjan in "I’m joining OpenAI"

catmanjan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:41:28 +0000

Did claudebot have paying customers? My understanding with these companies is that you buy the market, the product can just be forked (like Amazon did)

New comment by catmanjan in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

catmanjan — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:14:48 +0000

Infinite growth is a childish belief

New comment by catmanjan in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

catmanjan — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:00:48 +0000

Sounds more like busy work rather than something that makes money

New comment by catmanjan in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

catmanjan — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:48:41 +0000

However good growth is finite unless you also believe in immigration and debt

New comment by catmanjan in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

catmanjan — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:27:56 +0000

If someone from the Phillipines clicks waypoints for a drone in Ukraine, is it a warcrime?

New comment by catmanjan in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

catmanjan — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:56:33 +0000

My exact reaction

New comment by catmanjan in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

catmanjan — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:38:35 +0000

>food is largely a solved problem

It really isn't...

New comment by catmanjan in "You already have a Git server"

catmanjan — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:23:19 +0000

Most of those things are ops related, not software development

New comment by catmanjan in "Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents"

catmanjan — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:40:26 +0000

No we have a Microsoft graph connector which inserts externalitems into graph, copilot is able to surface these, probably via the same semantic search database

The capability was there for years, but it was expensive - something like $0.60 per 1000 items indexed, then sometimes after copilot was added it became free for up to 50 million items, and now it's free for unlimited items - you just can't beat that for price... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilot...