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The problem is that we were on the Team plan which is a flat rate plan.

You raise a valid point but it has no substance. Management confronted us and said "you are doing it wrong!" And I stopped them "no, we aren't. even if we are, we can try to economize on tokens. We can get a 100% improvement, 200%? 500%?

It's still order of magnitude LESS than what we were doing and it's costing us, in dollars, twice what we were paying before.

You see, the problem with the Enterprise plan is that, unlike Team or Pro, it does not include any (subsidized) usage. Every token counts towards the budget. And corporate either did not read the fine print, or they had more than 150 developers (the maximum allowed by Team plan) and they were forced to switch.

They were expecting it would last for the entire month, like the Team plan was.

But it turns out the Pro and Team plans are subsidized and include far more tokens, that reset every week, than the "actual price" that they charge large companies.

It would be a valid point if one or two devs got it wrong. But it happend for all of us (and we work in different projects).

I'm Argentinian. And I'm speaking from experience.

and they are not yet charging for the "tokens" what they need to charge to become profitable

We recently got access to Claude Enterprise and found how expensive it is. We were given $45 a month of budget. Everyone in the team blew through that in 2 days. And considering this is still being "subsidized" I honestly don't see what's the future for "AI Coding".

As to HR, a critical function of HR is resolving conflicts.

No it's not? HR's only role is to protect the company from their employees.

HR is not your friend. Raise any concerns with HR and you will be flagged as problematic. They are not there to resolve conflicts. They're there to AVOID conflicts. And the best way to avoid conflict is not having "conflictive" people in the first place.

HR does not work in your interest. HR works in the interest of the company.

HR is there to document your mistakes so the company can fire you cleanly. That's HR's main function.

(Note: I'm against the profligate financial support the US is providing Israel, for a variety of reason)

The problem with the idea of "stop sending billions to Israel" is that it's not actually that we send, you know, truckloads of cash to Israel for it to spend wherever it wants. Most of our aid to Israel is in the form of arms and equipment that is specifically to be purchased from US companies -- so most of that money actually ends up staying in the US, and if you were to take that money off the table, then several large US contractors -- and thousands of employees -- would then feel that pinch.

(Not that that makes it a bad idea, mind you)

Y'know, it feels intuitive to assume that going through some sort of Massively Traumatic Event (e.g. WW2 or Great Depression) would have depressed survivability, but apparently that's -- again, totally counter-intuitively -- not necessarily supported by studies.

For example, this study comparing Holocaust Survivors lifespans to control group in Israel demonstrated that while Holocaust survivors had more chronic health conditions, "mean age at death was significantly higher in the survivor group compared with the control group."

I've seen some hypothesis that these sorts of massive events sadly cull the population, on average leaving a population that will actually be hardier than otherwise, which ... both makes sense and is a bummer.

You didn't answer what they were asking.

They are behind CGNAT and Cloudflare provides a cloud VPN service that you can use to dial out, and then open ports in the cloudflare console, into your computer.

You are talking about two different things cloudflare does.

Technically, but I think it's still an important point to make, you don't actually need approval from the authorities to drive a car, you just need it to drive a car on public streets. If you want to take your car to a private raceway, or if you have a large enough property where you could drive a car on it, you don't need any sort of approval for that.

So that's meaningfully different from this kind of rule, where you can't even fly a drone on your own private property.

(Disclaimer: I'm an Israeli, though rather opposed to the genocidal attempt at ethnic cleansing currently being conducted by my country. That said, keep that in mind in terms of potential bias in this post).

It's not precisely correct to say that the US has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to Israel. it's a bit more of a 'closed ecosystem' than that -- the vast majority of financial support the US has provided Israel has been in the form of weapons and munitions, which Israel has then purchased from US companies. In other words, while in some respects this absolutely is financial and military support of Israel, in addition to that it's also a vast transfer of tax revenues from us (I'm a tax-paying US citizen these days) to the military-industrial complex and more specifically American companies.

So most of this money has stayed in the US, it's just been transferred from the people and their representative government to commercial entities.

Ah yes, the "I'm going to take my toys and go home" threat, uttered by children and oligarchs everywhere.

Companies unwilling to abide by a country's laws are welcomed to not operate in that country. These threats happen all the time and so far what it takes to get a company to not operate in a given country is pretty much a legal order (see: Russian and Iranian sanction laws).

well, at my current job they use NoSQL, in this case it's DynamoDB and it's been frustrating at times. So I asked the question: why are we dealing with these problems day in, day out, if the problems we're trying to solve have been solved half a century ago with SQL?

The answer is cost. The way we access data may be convenient to do with SQL, but it's also expensive. We have big (not webscale but large) volumes of data coming in every day. Having this on SQL would cost us tens of thousands a month. Keeping it in DynamoDB costs us a few hundred. And it's stupidly fast - if we wanted to get that kind of performance from SQL we'd have to pay for a supercharged overprovisioned server.

And honestly it's been fun. It's turned "boring business software development" back into more of an engineering problem.

I see the problem as a more "get off my lawn" types here. They have fully adopted "vibe coding" as "anything made with AI assistance" as much as older people call anyone younger than them "millennials".

There's a big difference between an experienced programmer providing the AI with clear, concise prompts and guidance; than having someone with zero knowledge trying to build an entire app from scratch.

One is "augmented capabilities", the other is vibe coding. But the haters here just refuse ANY sort of AI involvement.