I am in same boat as well. What I learned from my experience and others' experience after talking to them is that
1. You need to focus on the problems that really do exist and for which people might willing to pay for.
2. Marketing and Distribution skills are more Important than your Engineering skills.
3. Good Things take time, if your product is useful and good as well, then it is just a matter of time and marketing. Eventually it will gain traction, so don't loose hope.
Building a global postal code API (240+ countries). Just shipped per-country landing pages with format references and regex patterns. $0.000028/query with no tiers, sub-5ms. Bootstrapped, solo.
Except what will matter in the future isn’t brute strength.
It’s ownership of capital and technology.
Plumbers aren’t suddenly getting rich. At best they’re not losing jobs at the rate everyone else is, but once so many people lose jobs then they can’t afford plumbers either. So even plumbers are worse off even if they’re not as badly off as the rest of us.
And all this assumes that humanoid robots don’t develop and succeed which is a major assumption.
the thing that gets me every reread is the structure of the joke. same question, asked across the entire lifespan of the universe, same answer every time. asimov could have made it tragic but instead it reads almost like a bit that keeps escalating and then the punchline is that the answer was always going to come, just on a timeline so absurd it laps back around to funny
That's exactly what this hack is doing: using root to alter the app's internal storage. The Twitter video does it manually, but the problem is the same as when one does it through automated means.
This is so dumb. There are 100 other ways to protect children that would be more effective than this. Not only will this approach not actually protect children, this will violate the privacy of billions of people. It will introduce identity theft at mass scale (good luck solving that on short notice) and it will make activist/journalists/military/political opposition vulnerable. Perhaps this is the purpose. Who would benefit from such a scenario...mmm?
A gated, premium-tier product differentiation strategy only works when you sell the differentiated product. They went to market with 4.7 nerfed at security work and aren’t letting even large, vetted corporations pay more for the Mythos model… sentiment is quite negative where I work right now. There’s a real possibility that open source will give them a hair cut in the interim. And if the SWEs start modifying their CLI flows to avoid lock in to `claude`, it’s probable that the hair just never grows back. Losing strategy.
Ah yeah, been there, and probably the first time was when renaming a function but missing to update callers, so callers keep calling the old function, and you have no idea why the changes you made in the new function aren't working.
I have a this little function for clearing the current namespace that I call every time I rename any var inside a namespace:
> he was working as an instructor (not a professor)
No he eventually became a full professor too.
"He began work in 1949 with a $5,000 salary(equivalent to $68,000 in 2025), maintaining this position for several years. By 1952, however, he was making more money as a writer than from the university, and he eventually stopped doing research, confining his university role to lecturing students.[g] In 1955, he was promoted to tenured associate professor. In December 1957, Asimov was dismissed from his teaching post, with effect from June 30, 1958, due to his lack of research. After a struggle over two years, he reached an agreement with the university that he would keep his title and give the opening lecture each year for a biochemistry class. On October 18, 1979, the university honored his writing by promoting him to full professor of biochemistry."
> On Android 12 and lower, the MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY verdict only requires hardware-backed proof of boot integrity and does not require the device to have a recent security update. Therefore, when using the MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY, it is recommended to also take into account the Android SDK version in the deviceAttributes field.
Yeah and you’re doing a lot of heavy lifting with the term agents.
Billions have been poured into agents and there’s no sign that they will get to a place where they on the path toward generating returns to justify more good money being invested into chasing bad.
> I tried it again in February and it was on par with Opus speed.
I'm not finding that, like not even close. I'm using it mostly to write specs and docs and having Claude and Gippity check each other's work and fix things. It's looking into other previously written MD docs, and checking against 3-4 multi-thousand file Ruby codebase(s).
5.4 takes about 50% longer, almost without fail. I'm using 'medium' effort on both.
Color me surprised, when gemma-4 provided this answer: "Based on our current understanding of the universe, the short answer is no, it is not possible."
I always felt this moment would come eventually. The trend is centralisation of power and control. It's depressing. It's been a long time coming at a slow but consistent cadence.
I have to ask - what do you run locally on your laptop (model, backend, and agentic cli)?
Feature request:
A leader board with filtering so you can enter your machine specs and it will sort all models along with all the various quantisation and then rank them all - because so far model ranking site either don’t include all available quants, don’t compare apples to apples (ie was one model tested with Claude code while another benchmark done with opencode) etc
Oh - and as bonus, scoring also ranked by which agentic CLI :)
I looked this up on Wikipedia. It seems that he was working as an instructor (not a professor) of chemistry; since he was making more money as a writer during that time, he slowed down or stopped his research. Doesn’t seem to have been an intentional choice so much as how things happened to turn out.
