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New comment by ryanSrich in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

ryanSrich — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:37:11 +0000

Question: for a smaller SaaS tool, or even internal product. If a team doesn't want to manage AWS or another IaaS provider, what are the best alternatives for the following

1.) Vercel - having a bad month

2.) Supabase - having a bad month

3.) Railway - now having a bad month

New comment by ryanSrich in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

ryanSrich — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:26:18 +0000

Generally agree. I use AI very heavily, but rarely am I letting it actually think for me. It's a tool that reduces the time it takes for ideas in my head to manifest into reality. If you don't have those ideas, or a poor understanding of the system the AI is working on, you're going to produce slop. If you can't recognize this slop, you're more susceptible to having psychosis.

New comment by ryanSrich in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

ryanSrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:02:11 +0000

Having tried most (all?) of the commercially available + open source options, and even tangential competitors like CC, Conductor, Antimetal, etc. I haven't found anything that's close to the experience of Cursor. The harness they've built is incredible.

I'd even go so far as to say that any competitors that are direct (windsurf, kiro, etc.) aren't even in the same universe. Cursor is just so much better, faster, has better features (plan and debug mode), and squeezes much better results/code out of the same models. They absolutely have some secrete sauce that the other options just don't have.

New comment by ryanSrich in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

ryanSrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:58:50 +0000

Not quite first party, but composer 2 is far superior to grok for coding. Unless you're eluding to them using SpaceX infra to train their own model vs. using grok

New comment by ryanSrich in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

ryanSrich — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:27:05 +0000

For programming, the way I would build a curriculum is to force students to actually learn how to program and code first. This is simple by requiring them to write code inside the classroom by hand for all exams.

I would make this the focus for 90% of the first 2 years of their degree.

I would then have them spend 75% of their last 2 years learning how to use and program with AI. Aside from knowing how things actually work, there's no more important skill now than mastering AI.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

ryanSrich — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:16:31 +0000

The cynicism or even lack of interest is because it's extremely underwhelming.

If you ask 100 people in 1969 what humans would be doing in space in 57 years I can guarantee not a single person would guess that we've done nothing of substance. And that the most exciting thing we have done that involved human space travel is simply flying around the moon, people wouldn't believe it

New comment by ryanSrich in "The MacBook Neo"

ryanSrich — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:19:00 +0000

MacOS is a bug filled nightmare, and it's still light years better than Windows. I haven't used Ubuntu extensively since early 2019, but it still wasn't comparable to OSX at the time.

Apple and specifically MacOS is significantly worse than it has ever been, but again, still far better than the alternatives.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

ryanSrich — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:27:16 +0000

The equivalent of about $20/hr today for those wondering

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:16:41 +0000

Yes. https://x.com/claudeai/status/2014834616889475508?s=46

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:06:18 +0000

This has always been my personal definition of AGI. But the market and industry doesn't agree. So I've backed off on that and have more or less settled on "can do most of the knowledge work that a human can do"

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:05:16 +0000

So it's even more human than we thought

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:04:48 +0000

This is entirely solvable with skills, memory, context, and further prompting. All of which can be done in a way that's reliable and repeatable.

You wouldn't expect a Jr. dev to be the best at keeping things dry either.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:03:12 +0000

I would and have done the same with Jr. devs. It's not an argument against it being AGI.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:02:28 +0000

Giving opus a memory or real-time access to the current year is trivial. I don't see how that's an argument against it being AGI.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:59:25 +0000

I think "tested" is the hard part. The simple part seems to be there already, loops, crons, and computer use is getting pretty close.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

ryanSrich — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:50:44 +0000

AGI is here. 90%+ of white collar work _can_ be done by an LLM. We are simply missing a tested orchestration layer. Speaking broadly about knowledge work here, there is almost nothing that a human is better at than Opus 4.6. Especially if you're a typical office worker whose job is done primarily on a computer, if that's all AGI is, then yeah, it's here.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Heroku is not dead"

ryanSrich — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:12:49 +0000

The market has clearly passed it by. I was a huge Heroku fan. It even inspired my first startup in 2014 (basically a healthcare tech version of Heroku). At the time, I thought it was the future, and found messing around in AWS, etc., too time-consuming and unnecessary. That was when Rails was all the rage.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

ryanSrich — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:26:33 +0000

That's the idea yeah. There are other people actively working on this. You can follow vx-underground on twitter. They're tracking it.

New comment by ryanSrich in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

ryanSrich — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:24:42 +0000

Seems like a job for an LLM

New comment by ryanSrich in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

ryanSrich — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:19:34 +0000

Are they paying through? Reddit was also popular for a long time and didn't make much money.

My point was more that it seems this wave of AI is more profitable if you're in B2B vs. B2C.