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People say a lot of things about Apple.

The 5s doesn’t get regular updates though. The previous update of iOS 12 was three years ago. So about ten years of support. I think that’s also more or less the duration for newer models.

OTOH, the 5c was released together with the 5s but only runs iOS 10, last update in 2017. So for the extra cheap models the story is a bit different.

I guess it would be because it’s too easy to get to something that looks like it works without understanding anything about it.

But on the flip side the other day I was able to create a pull request for a project in a language I’ve never used before because Claude found the bug that I ran into while trying to use it. I still wrote the PR myself though. The issue was pretty obvious once I knew where it was. But I don’t think I would’ve even tried otherwise in this particular case.

Stuck in the past as always. When the newest nuclear power plant is over 50 years old (we stopped building them in the early 80ies under his party), the industry doesn’t want to build new ones, and renewable sources can and have been installed at a pace anything else can only dream of, nuclear is simply not relevant. Germany never produced more than 30% of its electricity with nuclear, and that was 30 years ago. Renewables have nearly twice that share now.

They have a public API where you pay by usage, like most LLM companies. They also have a private API used by their apps that they sell under a subscription model (but with usage limits in exchange). Because those subscriptions are often cheaper than paying by usage, people reverse engineered the private API and put support for it in tools like OpenCode.

So the short of it is basically just that they want people to honor their ToS and not reverse engineer private interfaces for competing products.

As a customer you can of course have a different opinion on what they should do/what you want from them, which is where the drama comes from.

I think it’s also a good reminder that if your business is built on top of one of these AI companies, you are completely at their mercy. They can put limitations in their ToS breaking your product (e.g. it’s not allowed to use Claude to develop competing products), they can raise prices (effectively the same as the current drama), they can randomly lock you out or decide to not do business with you anymore, etc.

Not much of an implication because we knew this before. But a reminder of something to keep in mind especially knowing that none of these AI companies are profitable right now.

But then why did they recover once they moved back to a monolith?

He’s not really blaming the infrastructure as such either. More the fact that they were trying to do it with 4 engineers. I would definitely blame the infrastructure too though. They didn’t have microservices, they had a distributed monolith.

It’s some inventory management SaaS btw.