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New comment by lbreakjai in "Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser"

lbreakjai — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:49:55 +0000

It's odd, it worked flawlessly on a M2 Macbook air running Firefox. I usually have to switch to Chrome for anything fancier than just browsing.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

lbreakjai — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 07:25:37 +0000

There's an entire universe of companies outside the MAG7 or VC-backed startups. I used to work for a US company, employing 60.000 people worldwide, which made the switch. But you will never hear about it because it's not a "tech" company.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election"

lbreakjai — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:03:01 +0000

Our designer uses some some of open-source Lovable. I don't remember the name, it's just pointed to our liteLLM gateway. A dev helped him with the setup, so there's still a bit of value in lovable's "it just works", but it's so much cheaper someone is bound to eat their lunch.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic's growth just flattened"

lbreakjai — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:19:15 +0000

You just wait, we're still early®.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic's growth just flattened"

lbreakjai — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:17:32 +0000

If Claude is good enough to review the code, then it should be good enough to write it right the first time, isn't it? Why waste money on CI?

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay"

lbreakjai — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:34:51 +0000

Not when the product you're selling is to make humans obsolete. Imagine if Apple had a budget to buy pixel phones for every employees.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay"

lbreakjai — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:19:42 +0000

Friction is good. I've been in this for fifteen years, and I can't name a company whose product would have been better if they somehow had a magic wand to instantly implement even half of those 5 years, 600 tickets deep backlogs.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay"

lbreakjai — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:12:51 +0000

> The AI usage still needs a knowledge worker to direct it in ways that it can't direct itself

So we're back to square one, and your productivity increase has a ceiling that's much lower than 5x, let alone 20x. There's a limit on how many things one can keep track of, how many code changes one can reason about.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay"

lbreakjai — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:46:33 +0000

I disagree. If a model is good enough for your task/workload, then subsequent smarter models won't really help you.

New comment by lbreakjai in "ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging"

lbreakjai — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:36:13 +0000

I'm not surprised. At work, we paired devs and non-devs together, and we're sharing subscriptions, since we tend to exclusively use one or the other. It's like when Copilot was billing per query rather than per token, always bound to disappear.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code"

lbreakjai — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:52:13 +0000

> and is probably difficult to update (original writers long gone)

The new program won't be any easier on that front. It literally doesn't have an original writer. So the new program will certainly be maintained and updated by a LLM, at which point I wonder if the language switch mattered at all?

New comment by lbreakjai in "French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic"

lbreakjai — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:28:42 +0000

The end user always pays, one way or another.

New comment by lbreakjai in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

lbreakjai — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:56:46 +0000

They've been rooting for ours, it's only fair.

New comment by lbreakjai in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

lbreakjai — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:51:55 +0000

The amount itself is probably meaningless. The fact that there was a shortfall at all is, for me, the signal.

Not too long ago, people were fighting to throw money at them. That might be the sign that we're past the peak of inflated expectations and going down towards the through of disillusionment .

New comment by lbreakjai in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

lbreakjai — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:17:15 +0000

This is such a terrible failure mode. I had quite a few of those "People are saying that ..." that turned out to be sourced from the only two reviews left on the product I was looking for, but made it seem like it had broad consensus.

New comment by lbreakjai in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

lbreakjai — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:09:02 +0000

Cost won't become prohibitive, it'll trend towards utility.

New comment by lbreakjai in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

lbreakjai — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:03:51 +0000

I personally have dumped everything into money market funds. That should give you somewhere between 3 and 4% return assuming you're using a dollar one.

New comment by lbreakjai in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

lbreakjai — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:47:08 +0000

Except the other models/harnesses can already search the web. The only reason why I still end up on google is if I need to check the spelling of a word ("Didn't you mean xyz instead?") or for very quick and small checks ("Number of inhabitants in X city")

If I need to _really_ search, something that would take comparing multiple links, I go to Claude/ChatGPT directly.

Just yesterday, I was looking for a small tool, I didn't really know the name, but had a picture. My first reflex has been to paste the picture in Claude, and ask it to find me places where I could buy it, that delivered in my country.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue"

lbreakjai — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:06:02 +0000

Yes, but google makes money from the ads all around the results, which I won't see if I'm using a Claude's UI.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

lbreakjai — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:18:05 +0000

Freedom never meant that the society much be changed to accommodate you. You're free from persecution (Conditions apply), you're free to behave the way you want, to associate with who you want. Likewise, Society is free to not associate with you and move in a different direction.