It tries to strike a balance between working out of the box and being flexible... which has its challenges, still nice overall.

One big real-life pain I experienced is that caches don't always work, e.g. for xAI, since it only supports completions API and thought signatures are returned wrong.

It's one of those things that always stopped me from building cool tools - you have to make a living somehow.

So I am happy for the team of builders that they were able to receive the deserved payout and sustainability.

Well, looking at OpenAI / Google / Anthropic we see crazy cost increases, such that it might invalidate your unit economics.

Cheering for Chinese models!

What am I missing?

* create a feature-name.md file in a gitignored folder

* start the file by giving the business context

* describe a high-level implementation and user flows

* describe database structure changes (I find it important not to leave it for interpretation)

* ask Claude to inspect the feature and review if for coherence, while answering its questions I ask to augment feature-name.md file with the answers

* enter Claude's plan mode and provide that feature-name.md file

* at this point it's detailed enough that rarely any corrections from me are needed

Another dimension to this is native vs 2nd language speakers.

For those of us who had to learn English, we put a lot of effort into grammar, while native speakers whip out half-baked sentences without a second thought.

These days when it comes to technical stuff I much more prefer to fill in gaps by reading articles or documentation. Technical books are so long it feels like authors are paid by words.

And when it comes to fiction I have really leaned into audiobooks. My eyes are too tired from computer work, and I can combine audio with other activities like jogging or cooking.

There are some "technical" audiobooks as well, but only a small category of technical books makes sense in the audio format.

Little did I know, GPS jammers around the city make my grandma appear 50km away.

Not Apple's fault of course.

But I think that it mostly comes down to companies being able to pay for these ads. Mastercard / Visa payments no longer work in Russia. If a company has a way to pay (by having another business entity in another country), then it probably works.

But one difference is Rustore actually has payments and subscriptions, which hurts Google more.

During the APK install, however, you do see the ugly Android prompt about how this app may be dangerous.

Rustore has its own app payment system, which obviously circumvents Google Play fees.

This works on regular Android phones.

Are there other examples of such stores? Perhaps it's Google's answer to that.

Visiting my grandparents I remember we had to go through a sort of border control to get there.

My mom told stories of how the government would change the asphalt every year in that city to cover the nuclear dust.