Do you really think Zed's focus on AI is just about money? You do realize software engineering is in the midst of a tectonic shift?

You could call it a rug pull, but they may just be doing the math and realize this is where pricing needs to shift to before going public.

If you're talking about output quality, then yeah, that's not as easy. But for product outputs (building a customer service agent or something like that), having a well-designed eval harness and doing testing and iteration can get you some degree of convergence between the models of similar generations. Coding is similar (iterate, measure), but less easy to eval.

When I read these comments on Hacker News, I see a lot of people miffed about their personal subscription limits. I think this is a viewpoint that is very consumer focused, and probably within Anthropic they're seeing buckets of money being dumped on them from enterprises. They probably don't really care as much about the individual subscription user, especially power users.

It will probably be the case that there will be a diverse set of offerings of these kind of drugs, with different priorities and people will just have to try each until they find the one that works best for them.

My sleep has been pretty hosed up since I started but it wasn't like it was great before. I am also probably suffering from sleep apnea and I'm hoping to address that soon as I probably have another 4-6 months at the current weight loss rate before I am at a normal BMI.

I noticed that I did not want to drink the day after my first shot. It was that fast. If anything the closest I came to drinking came from routine, not desire. That is to say, what is an afternoon watching football if not with a beer in hand? But I was able to move past that.

One thing I should make clear, no matter how heavy a drinker I have been at times in my life, including with liquor, I have never had a physical addiction. A person deep in the throws of physical addiction will need to approach this carefully.

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There is a lot of great writing on this subject and some real world testimonies in there. Also happy to answer any more questions here.

This is fair. But I'll ask you this: how long would it take for you to trust it? Assuming there are no side effects beyond what we know now, which are:

* gastroparesis is a small number of patients

* elevated thyroid cancer risk in mice

* nausea and general uncomfortableness when taking it (some percentage, not all)

* muscle and bone loss which seems to be roughly on par with any rapid weight loss approach

* a small percentage of people develop malaise, anhedonia and suicidal ideation

* a propensity to gain some percentage of weight back and/or relapse in addictive behavior when going off the drug

These are the side effects we know about with over a decade of prescribing GLP-1 agonists. Assuming these continue to be the primary side effects, how long would you wait until you are comfortable in trusting they are the only ones?

The strange thing about GLP-1s effect on my desire to drink is how it manifests: I just don't care about drinking. I actually _could_ drink and be fine I think, I haven't tested it. I don't go through life with the burden of the knowledge of my own addiction. I don't have to be vigilant about triggers and self-assess my actions. I just don't drink.

I have been reading obsessively about this drug since going on it. I have been fortunate enough not to suffer side effects on it, save for one -- frustration with the cynicism around it. A cynicism I shared prior to experiencing its effects.

I am convinced that, barring any life threatening long term side effects, this is the most important drug of our lifetime (from a first world perspective) or until a silver bullet cancer drug is found. The potential to be the tide that lifts so many boats and alleviates so much physical and emotional pain and suffering on a population level is almost overwhelming to think about.

Millions of peoples lives could be made better within months if this stuff was made freely available tomorrow. It would cause all manner of downstream benefits for society, in particular I think it would have a real impact on reducing some load on a healthcare industry that is buckling at the weight of our collective unhealthiness.

I honestly think the FDA should find a way to put the screws to NN such that they reduce the cost of this drug and license it at an affordable cost to the compounders.

One way of thinking about it is that I have always enjoyed fruits like apples, blueberries, etc but I have always enjoyed a bag of chips or a great sandwich more. What I've found now is if I keep fruits, yogurts, cottage cheese etc in the fridge I will opt for them over the more junky foods, or at least just as much.

There are some weird corners of YouTube.