Great, let's just require biometric identification before posting online, what could go wrong.

Does that mean that you also don't switch to newer Anthropic models? Because they would change similarly, wouldn't they?

Exactly, my first thought was "Why in earth would anyone think that S3 was the right service to store millions of tiny ephemeral files?" and now it seems they have invented their own in-memory store instead of just using something like Redis. I also wonder what happens if their DIY thingy crashes, are the videos lost? Why not send to Kinesis or SQS in the first place?

From the article, individual video segments were 2-6 MB in size and SQS and Kinesis have a 1MB limit for individual records so they couldn’t have used either service directly. At least not without breaking their segments into even smaller chunks.

You're right, I didn't pay attention there. Still seems that there a many solutions better suited than S3. Probably a classic case of "We need an MVP fast, let's optimize later".

Agreed, but this isn't always bad. Optimizing early with unclear requirements can kill time, which at an early stage is just delaying product launch.

Migrate/optimize later when you're actually reaching scale is a perfectly reasonable approach.

In fact, if you have a decent abstraction or standard in place (e.g. S3 API or repository pattern) you can swap it out in place.

The propaganda machine is called X and he bought it to brainwash people, so don't feel to bad about it. Good that you realized!

To be honest I have never used Cursor nor do I know their pricing, but isn't revenue kind of a stupid metric if you're just a frontend for a paid API? Like wouldn't almost all of this revenue just go through them towards OpenAI or Anthropic?

The only thing missing is replacing the head of the federal reserve bank with a mindless puppet so they stop standing in the way of success (inflation).

I just get downgraded to 2.5 Flash after like three prompts and can't seem to find an option to switch back. So much for "60 requests per minute are free".

It is a fungus that is harmless for humans, so I assume not that much. Of course it is always dangerous to artificially mess with an ecosystem. It has backfired more often than it has worked as intended when humans did that.

Most of the time it’s been extremely successful when we mess with ecosystems.

We just call it farming, cities, etc.

Yeah but if you ignore all the massive successes, it always goes wrong.

That is not my experience with AliExpress. I usually just got my money back when I complained.

They just make it very hard to complain. And it always is necessary to do a lot of back and forth

It probably varies based on item price and how obvious the issue is. I had two sub-$10 items arrive visibly broken recently and got refunds in under 5 minutes.

They're more likely to only give a few dollars back rather than a full refund

You have to call their bluff when they try to pull that, they don't want you to ship stuff back either. I got a full refund after a few back and forths of "are you sure you want to ship that back for a refund??".

What's the use case for using Telegram over Whatsapp? At least the latter has proper end-to-end encryption of content?