$12 in tokens and the OP wasn't even at the computer. OP was working on a personal matter, arguably way more valuable than fixing a CSS scrollbar.

Here's what the $12 payed for: https://github.com/datasette/datasette-agent/commit/a75a8b72...

Such a fix would have only required basic CSS knowledge and taken max 5 minutes with the HTML inspector. Paying $12 to save 5 minutes ($144/hour) is a decision that a lot of people wouldn't be comfortable making.

Their response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499478

I am amused by the "I am an LLM researcher, so wasting tokens to do basic things is totally justified" perspective.

I have a lot more critical views of this author, but I'll just stop here.

The short film version of the original is great, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

It stars Tom Noonan and Ben Bailey!

Film featuring meat? Spare me

Meat flapping at each other, no less. /shudder

How much more software does Uber need?

Unless they are iteratively replacing expensive vendors and optimizing other headcount costs?

> How much more software does Uber need? > Unless they are iteratively replacing expensive vendors and optimizing other headcount costs?

Yes and yes. Also the world changes and software has to evolve to model that change, especially at a place like Uber whose software models phenomena in the real world.

And gas stoves, why wind turbines are bad for golf courses, the effects of nuclear weapons on hurricanes, the favorability decline of Robert E Lee, invisibility for stealth fighters, the rapid death of the US farmer due to solar panels, and the impact of tariffs on consumer prices...

Wait, maybe not that last one.

Sub-companies are owned by companies. Don't cap liabilities to the limited assets of a sub-company that actively violates the law.

Or cap them to a reasonable standard: 100% of revenues derived from the game.

Now label AI ads and let us filter them out.

Leading up to tax day, every ad was a terrible AI slop Turbotax ad.

Same. I hope Apple continues to come down on these companies -- and their customers -- that abuse the trust that Apple has built up with iMessage.

Sorry OP. Not all products need to succeed.

I don't think that technology exists. Sorry.

Subversion pre-1.5 was a nightmare. Branch merges were by convention in commit messages. To merge 20 commits from your branch, you would do `svn merge -r 125:140 /branches/my-feature` and then note in the commit message which range you merged.

1.5 made that tracking automatic but just shoved it into a metadata field that just percolated through every directory in a project.

And if someone tried to rename a core path? In the distance, sirens.

If NYC schools can do it at scale (1,600 schools this year banned cell phones), Princeton could certainly do it.

Students either leave phones at home, or the school provides pouches/mini lockers for each student.

They can't do it at scale, they can only mandate it at scale