I've had premium subs with both and switched to Claude 3.5 Sonnet. I'm blown away by what it can do. Example for context:
I'm a software dabbler so I can do basic stuff with frameworks like Django, but I'm definitely not a developer by any stretch. My use case is to build mvps cheap and quickly to test out ideas.
Claude spit out a Django project that integrated Twilio for SMS functionality. What's _really_ amazing is that it also walked me through how to set up ngrok and Twilio so that I could use my computer as a temporary server. Again, I'm a dabbler so devops is completely over my head.
In maybe 2 hours I had a functioning prototype that I could interact with via SMS. I can't comment on the quality of the code or how viable this approach is for building in production, but to bring an idea to life so quickly with limited skills is really exciting.
I’m basically a sysadmin with limited programming language skills other than pretty good with ansible/chef and can just usually figure stuff out, but not a coder or SRE-level by any means.
Even the cursor/Claude free plan combo is incredibly impressive, and if you are patient and provide good and reasonable prompts, I’ve been incredibly happy, even astounded with what I’ve been able to accomplish so far with a Python Flask web app I’ve been working on. I feel like that given my current Python skill-level (quite low), it would have taken me a few weeks (at the very least), to accomplish what I’ve done in one day with my Flask side project on the Cursor/Claude free plan. It’s kind of mind-blowing actually.
> I haven't seen any of these tools doing anything that anki doesn't — why not contribute to it instead?
For the same reason that your area likely has more than 1 pizza restaurant. Other people want to take a stab at their own vision of a thing and that's awesome. Personally, I find Anki to be pretty uninviting to the general public.
Fluent-Forever.com is an example of an application of spaced time learning applied specifically to languages and their app is pretty great.
We may disagree philosophically, and that's ok, but I tend not to buy into the perspective that if X already exists and Y is like X then Y should not exist.
You are comparing apples to oranges here. Starting up a whole new "study group" community is not the same as opening up a pizza restaurant.
I don't mean to be harsh or mean but OP is treating this as a product rather than a hobby projects with producthunt submissions etc. when in reality it's a barebones clone of a standard application that already exists.
Open communities benefit from numbers. Another developer to Anki even if you'd just wrap around nice web ui around it would be significantly more efficient and valuable then reimplementing the same spaced learning logic and starting everything from 0.
The whole point of Anki is to standardize this field - it's libre software made for the medium not for profit.
This is such an odd opinion. The open source world is filled with different implementations of the same idea and while there is a lot of duplication, a lot of good also comes out of it. I'm not sure why somebody making another flashcard program is such an offense to you. I'm not sure why you wouldn't be more supportive of somebody trying his own thing. Competition isn't bad. It's generally a good thing.
There's a price at which it's worth it and a price at which it's not. $10k? Sure. $200k? Nope. Now it's a matter of finding that inflection point.
Do you have any scholarships? What percentage of the degree are you paying for and how much of that is being financed?
Might you be able to walk into the president's office and negotiate your tuition? Not the bursar. Speak to a decision maker with vision. If you're as good as you say you are and can prove, with pay stubs, that companies also find you that valuable as a sophomore, you're an asset to your university.
You're the success story they're dying to tell prospects. And you might be willing to make introductions to those companies just in time for the campus career fair. And what about when you become an alumnus? If you're this promising as a sophomore, where will you be in 10 years that they can continue to reap the benefits from? College is a business, too. Sell them on you.
You're concerned that you could better spend the time in university improving your skill in iOS development. How can you leverage those gigs in your curriculum to count toward credits?
As for the courses you're not interested in, don't make the assumption that you are aware of all the things you will ever need to know to be successful in life. But again, there's a price at which that exposure makes sense, and a price at which it doesn't.
Can't one argue that income from rental properties is more predictable than the income from full-time employment? In the former, there are binding contracts between the landlord and tenant that guarantee the landlord income (similar to the relationship between a homeowner and a bank, which seems hypocritical on the bank's part). In the case of full-time employment the employee is not guaranteed to have a job as an employer can fire someone at any time for any reason.
There's also stuff that breaks unexpectedly that you're on the hook for repairing immediately, at whatever the cost. It can sometimes be difficult to fill vacancies, and in many instances those "binding contracts" aren't worth peanuts. If a tennant leaves or destroys the apartment, you could either go after them in court (expensive, time consuming, and you aren't likely to recoup very much very easily, and you certainly can't compel them to continue to pay you if they're broke), or live with keeping their security deposit (again, peanuts).
That's the real kicker for me, the idea that being currently employed under a W2 means anything for future earnings. That is a very outdated concept, IMO.
It's not as strong of an indicator as it was in the past, but if you have years of track record with your employer you probably will keep getting that paycheck in the future- and if you get fired, you can probably find a new job.
Not a perfect signal, but it's not like there actually is a perfect signal to be had.
1 - If a tenant loses a job and can't pay the rent, that contract isn't worth the paper its written on. You can't practically collect money someone doesn't have. Even if you collect a judgement, and sell it, you'll be lucky to get 20 cents on the dollar. Not even mentioning your time, court costs, and legal costs. Those may be recoverable, again, but practically speaking they're gone. The number of tenants who actually have the ability to pay and don't is, in my experience, very small. Few people wish to fuck with their housing situation.
2 - we just went through a rather unexpected bout of widespread unemployment
3 - the author appears to not have verifiable income streams (ex rent) with which to service the mortgage. If you are unaware, at least in markets I'm familiar with (and I have some familiarity with this), newly purchased rental properties rarely cover the mortgage + taxes + maintenance. You often expect them to be cash flow negative for some period. Which doesn't even begin to mention the risk of not finding tenants. Or the tenants not paying. And even in the latter situation, depending on where you are, it can take many months to forcibly remove them.
4 - basically, the author just switched from w2 to self-employed and therefore has no history with which to demonstrate his self employment is anything but a fantasy. If he had a year of demonstrable self-employment history, he probably would have been fine. His complaint, in general, seems overwrought.
5 - and again, in case anyone has forgotten, we just went through a bout of systemic risk due to banks selling mortgages people couldn't service combined with people overestimating their ability to pay. Therefore, even if he is stuck in the cracks, this is the price of insuring a lack of systemic risk to the system (for which the US taxpayer is on the hook), particularly when banks just demonstrated you can't trust them to properly underwrite mortgages.
6 - credit != ability to pay. You can get very good credit simply by taking small loans and paying them on time. In my experience, those two things aren't well related at all. Note you also may make $250k/year, forget to pay a small medical bill (which is easy to do), get sent to collections, and have a credit score in the 600s.
7 - in the history of tenants we've had to evict (thankfully very few, and not all for nonpayment of rent), several have had very good credit
I think it's similar to people in the military who are given a gun and told to shoot someone they've never met. There are many people who believe what they're doing is for the good of their country and trust the people giving the orders.
You planned that using logic, but people's emotions don't react to logic. It's an emotion after all. I thought it was obtrusive as well and didn't realize how far into the article I was. The only thought I had was "this is in my way and there's more to read."
All that being said, just do a split test :) Maybe people like me are in the minority and you get more upvotes for having it displayed that way.
I've heard non-elderly, non-infirm people consuming the major brand product as a convenient replacement for meals.
Furthermore, all the existing makers have to do is launch another brand and Soylent is more/less boxed into an all but hipster lifestyle business. They would have to fight an uphill battle all the way as there is no real element of defensibly about it in a market where the existing players already dominate the key element: distribution.
As an example of branding nutritional beverages: as a kid, I like carnation instant breakfast because what kid doesn't like any excuse to have chocolate milk for breakfast? It's not quite the same as a complete nutrition product, but it's close enough to illustrate the point of branding. Most people dislike Ensure because it's associated with the infirm and the elderly. If one were to build a complete nutrition brand, it has to be associated with Olympians, military specops and so on.
>Does ramen, McDonalds, and frozen cardboard pizza count as real food?
Nope.
It is pretty expensive to eat good, healthy food all of the time, but I still think middle-class families can afford it (although its getting harder all the time). Sometimes the crappy, unhealthy alternatives are cheaper, but there are still meals that you can cook at home that are pretty inexpensive.
Haha of course, hence the "I doubt that'll happen anytime soon." Though I wouldn't be surprised if it became commonplace for people to swap out their breakfasts for something like Soylent in the near future. I already do something similar by throwing milk, protein powder, ground up oatmeal, and flax seeds into a blender every morning. The convenience is pretty overwhelming, and it has a much better nutrition profile than a bowl of cereal.
I do the same for breakfast, but I feel more comfortable doing so because most of those foods are regulated. I don't believe protein powder is, which is a little scary considering how often it's consumed. If Soylent is to be treated as a supplement (lack of regulation) that is consumed exclusively, it's even more unnerving.
PS - Are you Louis? We had a quick email convo last year. If you need help implementing some of the marketing aspects of EatThisMuch, let me know.
Yeah, thanks for that recipe. I've been drinking those shakes for a week or two now, and I think I feel better.
The recipe, for those who are curious:
- 1/2-1 cup raw oatmeal
- 1-2 tablespoon(s) peanut butter
- 1 scoop whey protein powder (I use Gold Standard Double Chocolate)
- 1 tablespoon flax seeds
- 1 banana
- 1-2 cups milk
Blend the oatmeal and flax seeds into small bits before adding the rest, then add the rest and blend. Chocolate-banana-peanut butter taste, and a pretty good mix of nutrients.
I've noticed you promoting this site in multiple threads and have continued to bite my tongue because I admired the hustle, but I think this crosses the line.
OP asked about learning to design websites, which suggests s/he is in the very early stages of discovery. The last thing OP needs is people telling him/her to spend money on something loosely tangential to the request.
You could have mentioned a couple great resources that would actually be of value to OP and then gently mentioned "but if your end goal is just to run a web business, you can skip ahead and check out my site".
Love the hustle, but please be more mindful of spam.
I'm a software dabbler so I can do basic stuff with frameworks like Django, but I'm definitely not a developer by any stretch. My use case is to build mvps cheap and quickly to test out ideas.
Claude spit out a Django project that integrated Twilio for SMS functionality. What's _really_ amazing is that it also walked me through how to set up ngrok and Twilio so that I could use my computer as a temporary server. Again, I'm a dabbler so devops is completely over my head.
In maybe 2 hours I had a functioning prototype that I could interact with via SMS. I can't comment on the quality of the code or how viable this approach is for building in production, but to bring an idea to life so quickly with limited skills is really exciting.