Thanks for the warning. I would have chosen to be pragmatic as well but with another vendor. While I applaud your generosity with trust mine would have been evaporated at the first invoice.
A few things in life I can't fully grasp why they are so sought after. One is that constant need to exhibit growth. As if being massive and staying as massive is not good enough, one has to always and continuously grow. The other is constant speed increases. We're already operating at 50x speed. My output is much wider and so much faster, I am sometimes my own bottleneck. And now as if that is not enough we want more speed. "I want a full software product from scratch in 12 seconds, Because 5 minute is too long and I got things to do..."
different use cases for different people. some people are nurturing a code base and ensuring it doesnt become a gross mess so they become the bottleneck. some people are just trying to prompt stuff into existence and dont know what sql is.
I think this site often overlooks that second group and how large it likely is.
I remember when I had to wait minutes to get a high resolution image over a dialup connection. When computer and communications hardware advanced enough that I could get 30 high resolution images every second, there were brand new uses. In the case of LLMs, I could imagine that much faster operations allow you to introduce them as parts of systems that need to react to the real world at high speed, like factory equipment. Showing that a model can do the usual LLM tasks at extremely high speed is just a demo proving that the approach works.
yeah at a very high speed the agent can code the solution when you ask it for something on the go. Imagine it be able to make a feature as fast as a website loads sometime in the future that would feel like magic
The example in the video was a generation of a dashboard app of some sort. I can do that with a "normal speed" Claude in a few minutes. The difference is a few minutes. This is compared to a few weeks in old school development time. I don't have a problem with taking it a little "slow" (as in - few minutes) and lending my thought to it rather than just going for fast generation and who knows what's inside. I get your use case, but this is a specialised one, and not the one 90% of people will think of - everyone want that fast app in 12 seconds... Or so it seems from me being downvoted on that comment.
I frequently tell agent to do something, wait ~10 min (which is just enough that I can't/don't want to start anything else), ask it to change something, wait a few minutes again, and so on. So I'm basically idle while waiting for agent, and it would be great if it was faster.
It's like your compile times were ~10 min. Sure, it's not a huge deal, but it's sooo anoying
10 minutes sounds like a very long time. Maybe I'm using it differently but I don't see those wait times. I give specific instructions, and use pro plans, and the turnaround is fast.
To me, 7.5 years is not worth it. and the 1K in 20 years is nothing. This should be the standard and it should be free. Until then we'll keep paying through the nose for energy...
Not on those terms. Nobody wants to pay through the nose and see a return in a decade. We wouldn't be paying through the nose if we used our own gas instead of importing it. Crazy idea, I know...
It does not appear flagged to me. Perhaps someone recently clicked vouch? Their comment is flagged though. Just guessing but maybe HN's bot saw their github is selling a service. HN has been getting flooded with AI generated services being sold on github. The only way to know for sure is to email dang.
I enjoy the maintenance, doing what I can myself, trying to learn if I don't know. When the house was renovated (read rebuilt internally completely), we chose to stay in it during the works. It was fascinating.
And, houses (usually) increase in value. Some more than others.
People want importance. To feel, or more accurately, to show that they "Know". That they "Care". They are experts in this or that. They are this, they are that. Whatever it is they are "selling" or to whichever group they want to belong to - they play that part they conceive is theirs.
I love exercises like this - they expose this. Float it right up to the surface. It's poetic.
Because if you still need to read your code and understand it, it should be in a language you are comfortable with. And yes, you still need to read your code and understand it. If that's rust, good on ya. But if that's Python -good on ya too.
I find walking slowly quite difficult. I feel like I'm putting more effort to balance myself slowly and all in all it feels less stable than just "walking" at a moderate to brisk rate. I wonder if this is the same category of problem just in reverse...
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