I'm Italian so the situations is similar if not worse back at home.

So I am sure this is not viable for many people as buying an ETF counts like 1 trade, but investing the same money in the underlying assets count like 10s of trades.

I am not again performance bonuses, but they should be attach to better metrics. Eg the number of happy users is still up in 3 years time. Or something like this.

QQ: does it support programmatic cell access/modifications?

Eg `cell file.cell --write A2 "42"` or `cell file.cell --read "=SUM(A1:A10)"`? Couldn't surmise that from the glimpse I gave the README, but it would be pretty cool for scripting stuff.

If they have to raise prices to stop hemorrhaging money, would you be willing to pay 1000 bucks a month for a max plan? Or 100$ per 1M pitput tokens (playing numberWang here, but the point stands).

If I have to guess they are trying to get balance sheet in order for an IPO and they basically have 3 ways of achieving that:

1. Raising prices like you said, but the user drop could be catastrophic for the IPO itself and so they won't do that

2. Dumb the models down (basically decreasing their cost per token)

3. Send less tokens (ie capping thinking budgets aggressively).

2 and 3 are palatable because, even if they annoying the technical crowd, investors still see a big number of active users with a positive margin for each.

Above that threshold you should use tools like moosend, benchmarkemail, or similar. And they ask a pretty penny when you reach that scale.

So they could be trying to tighten the thinking budget (to decrease tokens per request) or to lobotomize the model (to have cheaper tokens). I mean, no-one is really sure how much a 200 dollars/month plan actually costs Anthropic, but the consensus is "more than that" and that might be coming to an end.

This explanation falls well in line with the recent outrage about out of quotas error that people were reporting for the cheaper (or free) plans.

My fear is that adding yet another keyword it might get lost in the sea of keywords that a Rust developer needs to remember. And if recursion is not something you do often you might not reach for it when actually needed. Having this signal in the function signature means that people would be exposed to it just by reading the documentation and eventually will learn it exists and (hopefully) how to wield it.

What do you folks think?

If Oil goes the USD follow suits thanks to Petrodollar. This will happen until it's still easier to trade oil in dollars.

Is the same on the job market? I don't think so. I never heard any SWE saying "let's scare people away from a CS career so we can bargain for higher salaries". The opposite is true though. Companies participate in career fairs, pre-uni events to make people gravitate towards a CS careers, ... so with a higher supply each employee loses a bit of bargaining power.

Small excursus, this very fact was taken to the extreme in 2022 when everyone did layoffs at the same time despite the numbers being still great. If you put 300k people on the street at around the same time you can hire some of them for way less money as they now lost all leverage (since there are other 299.999 people waiting in line for a job).

There was a surge in demand for SWEs and scarcity brought salaries up. Are them too high? Hell no. On average, my colleagues and me generated ~2M$ each in 2025 for our company, while we get payed a fraction of that (grants and bonuses included). If you look at net income per employee we are at around 700k each in 2025.

Additionally, employers try their hardest to drive costs down (eg. offshoring as much as possible, everyone doing layoffs at the same time, ...) and average/median salaries remained high. If the salaries were overinflated those numbers should have came down I believe. The fact that they didn't makes me think that it still is a scarcity problem not an overinflation one.

If it is a big company the answer is and will always be: whatever makes the stock price rise the most.

This is a bad thing IMHO

Battery is great and everything feels snappy even after the PC being powered on for weeks.

Anyway you can already try freethreaded builds that have the GIL disabled, but my experience is that most of your dependencies won't work.

Additionally, I wonder how many CxOs have corporate real estate in their investment portfolio which might influence decisions.

Man, I envy you. For me, the joy comes from writing good code that I can be proud of. I never got ANY joy from writing a prompt.

I mean, it is a means to an end (getting the LLMs to do the boring stuff) and so it is a necessary evil. Also, the LLMs are at times amazing and at times dumb as rocks even for very similar prompts. That drives me crazy because it feels I have no control over those things.