What type of projects are you guys building? I bought Max and these features to try it out to build a more complex project (ROS2) and that does not seem to work out at all… HTML page, yes, embedded project not so much.
With all the LLM coding assistants, you have to get a feel for each model and which extension/interface you're using with them. Not only that, but it's also dependent on your project!
For example, if you're writing a command line tool in Python, it doesn't really matter what model you use since they're all really great at Python (LOL). However, if you're writing a complicated SPA that uses say, Vue 3 with Vite (and some fancy CSS framework) and Python w/FastAPI... You want the "smartest" model that knows about all these things at once (and regularly gets updated knowledge of the latest versions of things). For me, that means Claude Code.
I am cheap though and only pay Anthropic $20/month. This means I run out of Claude Credits every damned week (haha). To work around this problem, I used to use OpenAI's pay-per-use API with gpt5-mini with VS Code's Copilot extension, switching to GPT5-codex (medium) with the Codex extension for more complicated tasks.
Now that I've got more experience, I've figured out that GPT5-codex costs way too much (in API credits) for what you get in nearly all situations. Seriously: Why TF does it use that much "usage". Anyway...
I've tried them all with my very, very complicated collaborative editor (CRDTs), specifically to learn how to better use AI coding assistants. So here's what I do now:
* Ollama cloud for gpt-oss:120b (it's so fast!)
* Claude Code for everything else.
I cannot understate how impressed I am with gpt-oss:120b... It's like 10x faster than gpt5-mini and yet seems to perform just as well. Maybe better, actually because it forces you to narrow your prompts (due to smaller context window). But because it's just so damned fast, that doesn't matter.
With Claude Code, it's like magic: You give it a really f'ing complicated thing to troubleshoot or implement and it just goes—and keeps going until it finishes or you run out of tokens! It's a, "the future is now!" experience for sure.
With gpt-oss:120b it's more like having an actual conversation, where the only time you stop typing is when you're reviewing what it did (which you have to do for all the models... Some more than others).
FYI: The worst is Gemini 2.5. I wouldn't even bother! It's such trash, I can't even fathom how Google is trying to pass it off as anything more than a toy. When it decides to actually run (as opposed to responding with, "Failed... Try again"), it'll either hallucinate things that have absolutely nothing to do with your prompt or it'll behave like some petulant middle school kid that pretend to spend a lot of time thinking about something but ultimately does nothing at all.
I’m trying to do something similar but hyper fine tune a model of choice for my specific local data source. For example, use existing code models to answer dquestions with code examples based on my private source files and documentation.
I tried doing it with using Huggingface and Unsloth but keep getting OOM errors.
Have anyone done this that runs locally against your own data?
Music Hackday was great (Infinite Gagnam Style anyone? [0]) and I especially remember Reykjavik 2012 as a personal transformative event! I made Horisfy [1] and and won best hack, very similar to Johnny Cash, but riding horses on Iceland.
This was the time before Echonest was bought by Spotify and Tomahawk (used in Johnny Cash hack) was sprawling.
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This is very interesting! How come Stanford owns so many properties? It strikes me a bit odd and their own website have plenty of listings to choose from, ranging from 500k to 5m. Perhaps the reason was first to ensure that staff can afford housing, but can they at these prices?
If you could afford a $5 million house, what would be the reason to buy it from Stanford and not on the open market? Is it at a market discount considering the cap on ROI?
Would you consider the options available in the listing [0] the cheapest way to get housing in the area?
Not all of the homes are subject to the ROI cap. The homes with ROI caps are sold at 50% of FMV, so the carrying cost is significantly lower than if you pay full price.
I detect that your question probes the subtle difference how one can be implicitly defining the semantics of "living" and "in" when posing the question, influencing the expected answer.
Im not sure it's comparable. I thought the backstory for living in an airport is something along the lines of the story of the movie:
"The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States and at the same time is unable to return to his native country because of a military coup."[0]
If you were able to come and go, you would just technically be homeless with the unknown benefit to stay in airport for 20 years.
You strike me as a passionate employee that cares about the work. That is a great personality trait, wanted by many employers. Don't throw that out because of politics, make use of it somewhere where its valued instead! Doing bare minimum will probably not be enjoyable; it made me resentful and depressed.
This is a good time disconnecting from current work and explore new avenues. Start interviewing as a way to build up your confidence, visit other offices, talk to other passionate employees, understand what it could mean to be valued in a new company.
Contrary to popular HN belief, it is possible to land a new job, with better compensation and interesting work without participating in complicated interview processes.
At the very least, you have now opened doors to new work should you eventually be fired.
Right... another way to look at this response is it's really passive-aggressively hoping they figure out they are wrong; it's still looking for their approval.
If you are truly dependent on specifically them, eg for visa reasons, that can only lead to a "partially managed decline".
If not, it's better to make your own decision to switch tracks in a controlled way and leave their bullshit and your need to care at all about it behind. You only have so many days on the planet, you will regret wasting them with people that make you feel like this.
Great answer that I wish I knew years ago. I was that guy.
So I started just doing as little as possible and... nobody seemed to care. It was on paper a sweet gig. Decent salary, lopsided work life balance. But you're right... despite what sounds like a dream job, I was constantly bitter about it all.
I finally moved jobs, am actually working again, and much happier. Wish I'd done it 5 years ago.
> Contrary to popular HN belief, it is possible to land a new job, … without participating in complicated interview processes.
Contrary to popular HN belief, the job interviewing process can be fun, interesting and fulfilling. As a job candidate, you get the opportunity to do something almost nobody gets to do: you get to peel back the curtain on a workplace and, as an outsider, see what it’s like! Is it the sort of place you’d enjoy working in? We spend so long in most workplaces that it becomes impossible to see the forest for the trees; or see our potential independently of the potential of our coworkers. Interviewing shakes us out of complacency.
Job searching can be an opportunity to redefine yourself and explore what’s out there. Think of it like travelling to other countries. It can be stressful, but the change of scenery can be delightful if we let ourselves enjoy it.
I do not see how take home assignments, leet code questions, whiteboard programming and binary tree inversion can fun and fulfilling.
I want to explore potential co-workers, what the employer would value in me, what interesting hard problems they have, what they do for fun, how they celebrate and how they learn, if they actually code or have meetings, what I would be doing, what they need help with, what I can bring.
I think all of the above can be understood in a meeting or two and should take about 2-3 days from meeting to offer and not be stressful :)
>take home assignments, leet code questions, whiteboard programming and binary tree inversion
As a candidate you can choose to refuse to engage with such impositions.
If it's a dealbreaker for the potential employee, you probably don't want to work there anyway.
I registered and have not logged in since 2012. This is what I got 12 hrs ago.
To me, It does not seem like they are charging me, seemingly because I never entered any billing data?
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I got that too, but there's an email that gets sent 3 - 4 hours after that one. Look for "Your Manuscript Account" from "FogBugz Customer Success". Of course, any billing attempt won't succeed without updated payment info (unless their next step is to try to send it to collections....)
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EDIT: Oh wow. Try clicking on that FAQ link. Or if you want to save a click, the ZenDesk reply says "Oops, this help center no longer exists. The company you're looking for is no longer using our help center."
Nothing is working. I thought that I'd be "nice" and login and cancel my account. Can't do that either, you just get a 500 errors from the sad Kiwi who now has to go live with his new evil masters.... Poor kiwi.
At least they haven't "upgraded" the 500 page kiwi – all the others have two mouths. Because they thought people wouldn't understand that a bird's beak is its mouth.
An OSS project that a previous company heavily relied upon, pleaded that they needed funding or would seize maintenance. As the project manager at the time, I told the R&D manager to start funding this OSS project. In return, we'd get maintenance and features that we otherwise would handle in-house. Roughly a 10kUSD/y handout from a Fortune 500.
"How much do we pay today?", asked the R&D manager, "Nothing", I said, "its open source". "Then we will continue to pay nothing".
So many companies take OSS projects for granted and as a once OSS core developer, I have seen many sides of this. Don't expect anyone to pay you for the work you are doing, and if you find your self not having the capacity to continue, try to see if there's any other maintainer ready to continue it for you, if not, even if it hurts, just leave it alone...
While this plays out with OSS quite a bit, it's not limited to just free software.
You are almost always spending more on an early adopter than they are paying you for your software, but typically that's with the understanding that you are re-selling those solutions to new customers.
That hasn't always been the case. I've worked at a couple of startups where one of our customers was exuberant about how critical we were to their roadmap, but part of why they were so happy was because they were getting a sweetheart deal, and we couldn't figure out how to tell them no, or sign them to a more lucrative contract because the one they have is already so nice, they'd be fools to sign a different one.
And then they go pikachu face when we either went under or got sold to someone whose career (and probably no small part of their job satisfaction) was built around saying No if you were lucky, and Fuck you, Pay me if you weren't.
This is the game, and people who don't like it still play it, which makes it worse.
Boss knew we were using our integration box for customer demos. I don't know how many times I explained that the entire team would be blocked by 1 pm on demo day, and some people would be blocked as early as 10 am, for want of a cheap box. I had to make a chart that showed man hours lost versus the cost of the new machine. Six weeks. The new server would pay for itself in six weeks. He said something sheepish about how he thought I meant a '"server" server', not a workstation class machine. Still don't know what he was thinking. A "server" server still would have paid for itself in six months, and he would have the luxury of me not bitching at him every time he forgot why almost everything that didn't get done on a Thursday slipped to Monday afternoon and asked me again about slippage.
Well, yes. But clearly, the 3rd party project is not the core business but would be if there was no alternative. The company would just develop it them self, if deemed necessary. The idea is that the knowledge would be retained within the company instead. The term "its free real estate" comes to mind.
This request for money was both too late (after you've been using the OSS project) and too early (before there was a concrete need). The latter is especially bad because if you haven't had a need yet, why do you think that there will be one in the future?
It might have worked better to treat the OSS project as a "free trial but we pay start paying after 90 days" from the beginning.
