Two things you can try: dispute it with your bank as an unauthorised hold if any of those payments were card transactions, and file a complaint with the DFSA if your business is in a free zone. Stripe does have UAE regulatory obligations and a formal complaint sometimes moves things that support tickets don't.
The way we handle it is keeping a small set of fixed test cases that we never change. Like same inputs, same expected outputs. so when we tweak a prompt we run it against those first. if it passes the fixed cases and feels better on the new ones, we keep it.
Never experienced BBS firsthand but from everything i've read about it, the thing that stands out most is how intentional the interactions were. you had to actually want to be there. no algorithmic feed pushing content at you. The people who showed up were genuinely curious about the same things.
This is complete opposite of how online communities work now where half the participants didn't choose to be there, they just got recommended in. honestly, every social platform is giving us things which we dont need but the algorithm is making sure we needs it
Honestly the leverage you have is the parts they can't vibe code. I mean DevOps, architecture decisions, anything that breaks quietly in production. i'd focus there and let them find out the hard way what happens when nobody understands the system they're shipping.
The joy thing is real, though. once a client stops trusting your judgment, the relationship is already broken. sometimes the right move is to document everything clearly, hand it over properly, and walk away before it becomes your reputation on the line. I'd like to know more opinions on this
Been using Aegis for a while now, the encrypted backup alone makes it worth it over Google Authenticator. losing access to everything because you switched phones once is enough to make you take backups seriously.
Ente is worth a look if you want cloud sync without giving up control of your keys. haven't tried Raivo personally.
Nearly missing a passport expiry is the kind of thing that happens to everyone at least once and nobody builds anything about it until it happens to them. good that you did something about it.
It surprised me when i got to know, i wonder how long this went undetected. Compliance certification exists so companies don't need to audit their vendors themselves, but here the whole certification is fake.
We've been building in the GRC space with Mitigata, and the pressure to make compliance "fast and painless" is real. And i know you all would agree with me that every prospect asks how quickly they can get certified. But fast certificates cannot be genuine.
I know with Claude, hitting 5 messages every 5 hours mid-task is a real workflow problem.
Many times, when i used to hit claude limits mid task and switched to ChatGPT thinking the no-limit thing would make up for it. But it's really annoying.
I ended up just being more deliberate about how i use Claude. longer more complete prompts instead of back and forth, which naturally stretches the messages further. not a perfect fix but it changed the experience enough to stick with it.
Finally someone said this! I feel it's not that people are doing less, it's that the feedback loop that used to tell you whether you actually understood something is now gone. you ship, it works, you move on, and three months later you can't explain why you made half the decisions you did.
The bit about taste is what actually stuck with me, though. taste comes from having opinions formed through struggle, not summaries and that's the part AI quietly erodes without you noticing it's happening. Does anyone here agree with me?
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