Think like “Paycheck from a local McDonalds franchisee for $434? You want to wait 4 days or pay $2 and get it today?” (Indicative numbers here.)
@patio11
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Capitalism and AI: Monetizing Previously Free Access
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In part this is letting customers buy access to something that is frequently offered as a courtesy, which is a mode of capitalism that frequently discomfits at least some people.
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Credit Products and Regulatory APR Disclosure Challenges
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It is fundamentally a credit decision, right? And fundamentally a credit product, right? But presumably it is not described as that, because I can’t imagine any bank wants to calculate that APR in a conversation with e.g. regulators.
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Google’s Multi-Year AI Music Strategy Over Simple Automation
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I considered back in the day having a 1-800 number ring a Twilio app to tell someone “Yep, you called us. Why did you do that? Send an email.”, but some residual salaryman sense of appropriateness thought that uncouth, so now G is doing a multi-year Gaga and Beyoncé duet.
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Google’s 200+ Calls: Data Scraping and Business Privacy Concerns
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Google has now called me more than 200 times, having scraped my business number from public filings, asking to verify it so that they can expose it in search results / verify my Google Local listing. This is more than all other sources of calls. Combined.
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Using LLMs to Boilerplate Ruby Test Cases Faster
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(Particularly helpful for me since I always have to lookup an old project for “How does one structure ruby test cases with mocha again?” Literally faster to have the LLM boilerplate it than it is to copy/paste and modify.)
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Generate test cases automatically with LLM prompt engineering
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You can get arbitrarily creative with it, too: cat script.rb | llm -s ‘This code is janky. Write some test cases for it, focusing particularly on validating the command line args and that it exits prior to calling the API if it detects an error.’ > test/script_test.rb
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Software Business Success Beyond Writing Code
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"The software business is not primarily about writing software" might be the through-line of most of my career. I enjoy coding but found myself producing most of the value doing other things and so leaned into them progressively more heavily over the years.
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Using DALL-E with detailed prompts for better image generation options
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Dall-E, though I usually use Midjourney. I did something a bit different than my usual one-line prompt on the title/themes/style to hit and asked it to give me some options, then said:
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Occasional Programming Work on Personal Software Projects
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It isn’t a major professional focus for me since I sold my last software company but I occasionally either get the itch or need to do maintenance programming on my own sites.