DO is so expensive compared with others; one of my clients insisted on using it as they found aws too costly; I got them over to Hetzner after a few months saving them 28k/month. I have no clue why people bother with DO vs AWS if they want to spend that kind of cash on hosting. I host million$ SaaS on Bunny.net and Hetzner for less than $200/mo; will never go back to the overcharging companies; and this is trivial to rsync migrate to whatever other provider too.

Rage bait as it is; please stay over there in the US, I will stay here in Spain. I will live with this 'opression' that I have to read about on HN to notice. All good!

For code that cannot be true or it somehow amplifies the fact that most programmers were/are terrible anyway and now they can be 10-50x as terrible?

Ample sources confirm this to be the case. Basically the code quality is so poor the debugging and rework offset all gains into the negative. It's possible that improvements will eventually get those to net positive, but it's not even at net zero yet. https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-...

Most software engineers are terrible, probably more than half are net negative in the grand scheme.

I would argue this extends to most white collar positions. It's not simple to solve.

I luckily have the freedom to work with SBCL almost fulltime. It is a joy; shame most will never get to experience it (few jobs, parenthophobia etc).

Alright, you and your sibling reply have me wanting to look at it. I wrote Scheme/Racket when I was going through The Little Schemer and SICP. I'll buy a common lisp book. Any recommendations?

Also are Gemini and Opus not both big brands? If it was some small ai shop vs opus then sure. So seems indeed to make little sense?

I read this on reddit daily ; we have usage monitoring running and collect all stats; we have seen no difference at all. Guess they are split testing or something maybe?

Could you elaborate what these usage monitors look like? I collect data locally and can easily show that cost per token has gone up in some of my sessions

All our people run a cron script which counts tokens (from jsonl) use and runs a scripted cli /usage (sending keyboard input to the running claude code) and sends that to a central system where we can see this. We see no real changes on any of the accounts or averaged. I have to note here that we only use sonnet 4.6; opus always ran over limits if not continuesly monitored and switched over to sonnet since it came out and it's useless to us for that reason.

I use AI for code and we review that code and write tests ourselves first which the AI cannot touch. For writing we hardly ever do, unless we know the requester of something is incompetent and will never read it anyway; then it is a waste of time to do anything, but they expect something substantial and nice looking to tick a few boxes. It is great for that; a large bank with 40 layers of management, all equally incompetent, asked for a 'all encompassing technical document vault'; one of them sent an 'expectation document' which contained so much garbage as to show they did not even know what they were asking, but 1000s of pages was the expectation. So sure, claude will write that in an hour, notebooklm will add 100 slidedecks for juiceness. At first sight it looks amazing; its probably mostly accurate as well, but who knows; they will never ever read it; no one will. We got the 20m+ (with many opportunities to grow much larger) project. Before that was only in reach of the huge consultants (where everyone in those management levels worked before probably) who we used to lose against. Slop has its purpose.

Yeah, using cp to backup sqlite is a very bad idea. And yet, unless you know this, this is what Claude etc will implement for you. Every friggin' time.

Well, humans also default to 'cp' until they learn the better pattern or find out their backup is missing data.

Also, my n=1 is that I told Claude to create a `make backup` task and it used .backup.

I don't understand the double standard though. Why do we pretend us humans are immaculate in these AI convos? If you had the prescience to be the guy who looked up how to properly back up an sqlite db, you'd have the prescience to get Claude to read docs. It's the same corner cut.

There's this weird contradiction where we both expect and don't expect AI to do anything well. We expect it to yolo the correct solution without docs since that's what we tried to make it do. And if it makes the error a human would make without docs, of course it did, it's just AI. Or, it shouldn't have to read docs, it's AI.

You're confusing a workman's winking complaint about their tool, with, being unfair by not treating AI like a human.

I'm making a general observation about this frequent genre of complaint.

And I'm lucky enough to be making an observation about your general observation about this frequent genre of complaint

I don't get what you're trying to say then.

It works fine as long as no one is writing to the sqlite file and you are not in WAL mode, which is not the default.

But we were talking server loads here: anyone runs sqlite server-side not in WAL mode?

> and don't have to work a boring job.

Don't have to as they can retire, but as someone who used to be in a professional band (far from a rockstar), I would have end my life if I have to play one of these songs EVER again after playing them 10000s of times (rehearsal + gigs). I cannot understand how anyone does that without being very much drugged up. Especially once you have the money to quit.

Is Heroku that expensive these days? What are extremely lower costs? In my experience DO is hella expensive.

Northflank is by far the cheapest alternative