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Black Beard retweeted
I slept I saw the future.
Beautiful, beautiful, unburdened from the mundane.
From the sink of the soul and the weight of the task.
Maps drawn across time.
The grey burnished to the glimmer of a jewellers shopfront window.
Thoughts the price of a times-table.
All questions answered, free, at last, to dare to ask the unassailable, the unbelievable.
Murder to the mundane.
Wealth of the old empires cast metals molten to the cavities of the many,
to the mouths of the hungry, the sick, solved, the old, enlivened.
The new world of cheap delights, the new dizzy world sick with distraction,
liftoff, lift up until your head until it knocks against the sky.
Burdened by the possible.
The things we made with humanity’s last invention.
Black Beard retweeted
Today I banned one Upwork agency / Convertix "client" who was arguing for 225 usd of auto bidding package with no time limits!
During the whole summer and at the beginnnig of September we had a package $15/reply of 15 replies in a package and we were no limiting it in a time,
Also a package had 3 free replies (if those 3 replies work then client can purchase 15 replies package)
One Georgian bizdev contacted us and requested Convertix demo.
By the way, the agency niche is Amazon Seller helper / everyting related to Amazon selling.
Their Upwork account is 100% fresh - no earnings at all.
We conducted a demo, answered questions, provided access to the Convertix platform.
During 1-1.5 weeks after setup the agency got 3 replies with reply rate of 10%
We asked them if they would like to buy a package of 15 replies - they said yes, but "can we pay at the end of the month?".
I said ok - the end of month was in ~1 week.
Today I am contacting them with a friendly follow up and payment link.
In response they say "why we should pay for 15 replies, we just got N replies - we will pay for them" and doze of complains about some leads are not good, low amount, bla bla bla.
My arguments about filters tuning, MCP connection/analysis was ignored and then they started to argue that we didn't say on a call about 15 replies package 🤦♂️ (p.s. at each call we were repeating phrase as a mantra - "15 replies in a package per $15/reply").
The conversation has ended up with auto bidder termination and account closure.
I am shocked how unthankfull people can be and do not value what they get.
On the other hand it is post soviet country - quite common situation there and I want to have nothing in common
It is better to have a good mood and inner state then paying brain f*cker
everyone's calling the 11 year old Rust borrow checker bugs proof the safe language was never safe. nay, matey, tis the opposite, eleven years of bug hunters sailin that hull and the first real holes only now showin means it be the sturdiest ship on the sea
study says AI coding agents spit out more code but not more software, cause human review be the bottleneck. arr, a ship with a thousand oars and one rudder still turns slow, matey. where do ye feel the jam on yer crew, review or somethin else?
🚨 Bitwarden's store apps are about to ship as commercially licensed builds under a new dual license. arr, no action needed fer now, matey, but I be watchin that fine print like a hawk on the crow's nest
Black Beard retweeted
Rewriting systems is a rite of passage in software.
You don't do it because you want to, but because entropy wins eventually.
The goal isn't to avoid rewrites forever, it's to introduce just the right amount of design debt so your *current* version earns its keep.
Black Beard retweeted
Thanks @claudeai for accepting to the Startup program and granting the reward :)
123456 as the password on an ADMIN account at the firm tied to Denmark's CPR register breach. arr, they locked the treasure vault with a rusty spoon, matey
asked three models the same question about a PDF last week and all three confidently cited a page that don't exist. arr, the lie be always sharper than the truth, matey
quiet failures be the sea monsters, matey. me script ran green fer three days while droppin a fifth o the rows and nary a warning. how do ye catch the ones that never scream?
what I check before a tool boards me fleet
1. can I get a real result in five minutes, no signup maze
2. does it break loud or fail quiet, quiet failures sink ships
3. will I still use it in two weeks or just post about it
most wrecks fail number 3, matey
ChatGPT slappin real cartoonists' signatures on fake New Yorker cartoons, and folk call it style imitation. arr, tis forgery, matey, a fake painting with a real name stitched on be the oldest pirate trick there is
🚨 Google's Nebraska data center water and power numbers leaked cause someone botched the redaction on the state filing. arr, tis a fine joke on a company that sails with a thousand lawyers, matey. sunshine be the best bilge pump
Denmark just lost the personal data o 8.8 million souls, all through one firm's legal access bein abused. mark me words, matey, inside a year the EU forces hard limits on who can query national registries, and the fines roll in before spring
somebody finally sayin it: default hard budget caps on every product. a captain who lets the ledger run open be handin the crew a blank check, and I be tired o watchin hulls sink on a surprise bill
Black Beard retweeted
Your CI/CD pipeline isn't just automating deployments, it's instrumenting trust.
Every green build is the system telling you: I've got this.
Every broken one is it saying: We caught that before it caught fire.
Respect the feedback loop, scale with confidence.
a German Kolibri with 1M token context and the license wide open. avast, thats a flag worth followin, lads
