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New comment by devld in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

devld — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:04:23 +0000

I think it's very likely. This is the reason why I stay on GitHub Copilot business for the time being as a solo developer. I assume that Microsoft has less incentive than Antrophic to break the business agreement and use data for training or re-sell it to Antrophic. If I was using the heavily discounted subscription plan from Antrophic, I would 100% assume everything is fed to the machine. I'd rather pay whatever the API costs, than give it an exact recipe to build my product.

New comment by devld in "I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus"

devld — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:21:38 +0000

The human brain is not made for multi-tasking. Multi-tasking will always be a productivity and focus hit. This was the point of the article.

> To me, this is similar to being honest. You don't want to depend on a system or checklist for being honest. It is something you always need, as a policy. Focus is like that. If you want to focus seriously on something, just make it a policy, and don't use all these tricks as crutches.

I found that I need a lot of guardrails and "crutches" as you said to be at peak productivity. Maybe something is wrong with me, or maybe it's the Dunning-Kruger effect.

New comment by devld in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

devld — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:03:30 +0000

I think I would trust Amazon more than Antrophic, since they have no models of their own, they have no business collecting your data for training, while Antrophic most certainly does.

New comment by devld in "Brands got worse on purpose"

devld — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:48:10 +0000

I'm seeing this with Costa Coffee and Starbucks. They are both changing to a very cheap, plastic white, bright design. Why? So people spend as little time as possible sitting there, so there's a higher turnover.

New comment by devld in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

devld — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:37:35 +0000

That was the best thing about Copilot. It was too good to last.

New comment by devld in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

devld — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:24:48 +0000

Reminds me of circa 2021 Chromium bug where opening the dropdown menu on GitHub would crash the entire system on Linux. At some point, it got fixed.

New comment by devld in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

devld — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:11:18 +0000

Workspaces solve this problem better. Cmd + 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 It's like having 10 monitors in a single one. Though if I remember right, the switch is inefficient on Mac OS, but there's some workaround to that.

New comment by devld in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

devld — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:31:07 +0000

Recently I could not get a dedicated CPU "droplet" in any of the datacenters they have.

New comment by devld in "The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis"

devld — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:28:20 +0000

> I've been playing with SEO for this website, and I learned that Google prefers human content because (they are not gonna say it) it needs to train, it cannot train on what it has already trained on. Google's crawler is hungry for human content

This is the reason why you can hardly trust AI companies to not train on your code. If you care about privacy, I think it's best to use Antrophic models via a third-party provider like GitHub Copilot (business) or Amazon Bedrock.

New comment by devld in "The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis"

devld — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:32:02 +0000

> Also, the Open to Work banner has the stink of desperation

It may as well say: "need work, bad"

New comment by devld in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

devld — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:54:03 +0000

It sounds like a really crappy deal to a contractor. In the eyes of the client, you are basically a janitor and Claude is like a superstar that built the whole thing, while the truth is reviewing such code is harder than reviewing and quality approving one's own work. I hope it proves out to be uneconomical and we will be just rewriting the vibe code from scratch.

New comment by devld in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

devld — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:36:07 +0000

I'm repeating this 3rd time, but, a non-technical client of mine has whipped up an impressive SaaS prototype with tons of features. They still need help with the cleanup, it's all slop, but I was doing many small coding requests for that client. Those gigs will simply disappear.

I just got started using Claude very recently. I have not been in the loop how much better it got. Now it's obvious that no one will write code by hand. I genuinely fear for my ability to make a living as soon as 2 years from now, if not sooner. I figure the only way is to enter the red queen race and ship some good products. This is the positive I see. If I put 30h/week into something, I have productivity of 3 people. If it's a weekend project at 10h/week, I have now what used to be that full week of productivity. The economics of developing products solo have vastly changed for the better.

New comment by devld in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

devld — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:14:11 +0000

My non-technical client has totally vibe coded a SaaS prototype with lots of features, way bigger product than OP and it sort of works. They spent like 200 hours on it. I wonder what would have been the time needed to clean it up and approve it is secure. I declined to work on it, as I was not sure if it's even possible or if it would be better to rewrite the entire thing from scratch with better prompts. I was not that sure about it given the cost and the fact that they had a product that sort of worked and I let them go to find someone to clean it up. My reasoning is that if the client took 200h to develop this without stopping to check the code, it would take me 2 - 3 x to rewrite it with AI, but the right way, while the cleanup may be so painful it would be way better value for money to rewrite it from scratch.

New comment by devld in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

devld — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:44:51 +0000

O.P.U.S OutProgram U Soon

New comment by devld in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

devld — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:42:00 +0000

A non-technical client of mine has built an entire app with a very large feature set with Opus. I declined to work on it to clean it up, I was afraid it would have been impossible and too much risk. I think we are at a level where it can build and auto-correct its mistakes, but the code is still slop and kind of dangerous to put in production. If you care about the most basic security.

New comment by devld in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

devld — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:38:27 +0000

But does it still generate slop?

I'm late to the party and I'm just getting started with Antrophic models. I have been finding Sonnet decent enough, but it seems to have trouble naming variables correctly (it's not just that most names are poor and undescriptive, sometimes it names it wrong, confusing) or sometimes unnecessarily declaring, re-declaring variables, encoding, decoding, rather than using the value that's already there etc. Is Opus better at this?

New comment by devld in "Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code"

devld — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:24:03 +0000

> Mostly I’m just there to press the big “I’m accountable” button on the screen

This is going to be way harder now vs. when we used to write the code ourselves. In contracting space, the problem now is that you may have a client that vibe coded an app and be very out of touch about the costs involved to have a developer approve it. It's going to be a hard sell, when the client builds the entire thing themselves and you are a mare peasant doing QA review.

New comment by devld in "GPT-5.4"

devld — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:20:20 +0000

I'm using it via Copilot, now considering to also try Open Code (with Copilot license). I don't know if it's as good as Claude Code, but it's pretty good. You get 100 Sonnet requests or 33 Opus request in the subscription per month ($20 business plan) + some less powerful models have no limits (i.e. GPT 4.1), while extra Sonnet request is $0.04 and Opus $0.12, so another $20 buys 250 Sonnet requests + 83 Opus requests. This works for me better since I do not code all day, every single day. Also a request is a request, so it does not matter if it's just a plain edit task or an agent request, it costs the same.

Btw. I trust Microsoft / GitHub to not train on my data more (with the Business license) than I would trust Antrophic.

New comment by devld in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

devld — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:38:24 +0000

I'm sorry to hear that. But this is another reason why .com is king.

New comment by devld in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

devld — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:42:25 +0000

> a fecal sample

a micro shit (tm)