$100/m for SaaS is very steep.

For an entire productivity suite including mail, meetings and terabytes of backed up redundant storage with nearly no bandwidth limitations it's like $35/m for even the most expensive option.

Those products have very low COGS in comparison to this.

Claude Code and Codex are not SaaS products in the traditional sense.

Comparing state of the art LLMs with Office365 / Gsuite is like comparing renting a datacenter vs an airbnb. Entirely different things.

Compare it to hosting models locally, that would be more apt. Or renting GPUs from cloud vendors.

It’s a SaaS, and the most expensive SaaS available.

If you’re saying an LLM provides more value than the office productivity suites , mail platforms and meeting platforms which run essentially the planet: then I am afraid, you have drunk the kool-aid.

If you’re evaluating software licenses you have to weigh the price to value, there can be value to these LLMs but its not 3x the productivity of Mail+Spreadsheets+Live Meetings+presentations+wordprocessing+filesharing.

Its just not.

If you really think the value add by LLMs is comparable to email and calendar, I don’t understand why you don’t understand my point that you’re not the customer Anthropic cares about.

Your point is stupid.

The cost of offering a service and the cost of buying a service are correlated but not the customers problem.

If you are the most expensive SaaS on a docket sheet and you’re also the least reliable you had better be delivering some serious value in the times you’re up otherwise customers won’t depend on you and you’ll be the first one out.

Nobody wants to pay premium prices for things they can’t depend on. If you cant understand that then you need to stop offloading critical thinking to your AI tools because your mind needs the exercise.

you could arguably ditch the productivity suite and a few other 'essential' subscriptions to make room for this one, except the price point will get enshittified to hell in the coming months and years.

I always called it a “bit-mass”. Like a thermal mass used in freezers in places where the power is not very stable.

I knew I didn’t invent the concept, as there’s so many systems that cannot recover if the disk is totally full. (a write may be required in many systems in order to execute an instruction to remove things gracefully).

The latest thing I found with this issue is Unreal Engines Horde build system, its so tightly coupled with caches, object files and database references: that a manual clean up is extremely difficult and likely to create an unstable system. But you can configure it to have fewer build artefacts kept around and then it will clear itself out gracefully. - but it needs to be able to write to the disk to do it.

Now that I think about it, I don’t do this for inodes, but you can run out of those too and end up in a weird “out of disk” situation despite having lots of usable capacity left.

Its not a stupid question.

Normally when I have run latency calculations in the past I run them from the perspective of the caller, not the server.

In most cases this is over the network, a named pipe or sock file.

I guess it should be possible to run multiple runtimes inside a program that run independently.

I found that to be true years ago when I spooled the source of the Twitch leaks.

To me it said, clearly: nobody cares about your code quality other than your ability to ship interesting features.

It was incredibly eye-opening to me, I went in expecting different lessons honestly.

the women most afraid of child rearing live in countries with the best maternal healthcare.

something irrational is happening wether you want to admit it or not.

It's actually pretty common for old sysadmin code too..

You could always tell when a sysadmin started hacking up some software by the if-else nesting chains.

That 2019 logo looks fantastic.

The modern logo reminds me of Microsoft Word for Mac 2010 :(

My postings on LinkedIn have definitely had direct consequences in my professional life.

I consider them all good because ultimately if you get upset by the way I behave then that's probably going to be true if we work together also.

Sometimes people like to tell me that I'm very authentic and it's clear that I'm not trying to suck up to anyone, which they respect. Some people quietly retreat from me and I find out later that it's because I hurt their feelings inadvertently by shitting on AI or calling out web development as largely being inefficient in resources or something.

Love this response, and as some one who does perhaps a bit too much spending/wasting time on other types of social media, including here, I've made a conscious decision to post on LinkedIn more.

And it's such a difference. It forces me to slow down and think about a lot of things. The most important being: Is this even worth posting AT ALL?

And then, okay -- how can I say this in a future-proof way that both appeals to normies and tech folk like myself. I feel like I'll be doing better the more I post to places like that, and maybe less here?

Goes with the territory of allowing remote code execution arbitrarily and all the time otherwise you won't be able to..

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read text on the internet.

> read text on the internet.

B—b-it 4K scaling! Reactive design (to read text)! Emojis, reactions, badges! Memes and gifs!

All of which can be done with HTML, CSS, or UTF-8

Nearly all the top level comments are about the value of Linkedin at all rather than the technical reasons that 2.4G of RAM for a website is atrocious.

Can we talk about how it's possible that any application short of video editing can require so much RAM?

In fact, I've done video editing on computers with 1GiB of RAM back in 2004 and it worked fine, (for the 1024x768 resolution which was en vogue at the time)..

Is linkedin doing something complex? Is there a reason that it requires more resources than my entire computer from 20 years ago, or my entire operating system, text editor and compiler today?

I know right? Talk about missing the point. Honestly, I think everyday HN is closer to a reddit comment section.