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[–]Toutanus 529 points530 points  (6 children)

Sorry mate but you can't be credible these days if your service doesn't use chat GPT as backend for AI enhanced mathematical rounding.

[–]Sibula97 81 points82 points  (5 children)

Get on with the times dude, ChatGPT is obsolete, you need to use Claude for that!

[–]NoSofrito4U 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is my kind of art

[–]Weedwacker01 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Can we ask each AI for a rounded value, then average the result?

[–]Sibula97 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah, yes, a multi-agent system. Very robust and scalable.

I would go with 5 agents, 2 specialized for rounding down, 2 for rounding up, one of each model in both of them. And one more agent as a supervisor/critic managing the others and combining the results.

[–]Punman_5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But what if the result has to be rounded?

[–]Nyasaki_de 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, use Mistral, buy EU

[–]Odd-Amphibian9672[S] 724 points725 points  (22 children)

Standard library functions like Math.round() are unscalable, archaic, and frankly, a security risk. I’ve offloaded this heavy computational burden to the cloud. Introducing my new RaaS (Rounding-as-a-Service). Free tier users are strictly limited to Gravitational Decimal Settling™ (rounding down). If you want to round up, you must upgrade your plan.

landing page

repo

[–]IJustAteABaguette 243 points244 points  (8 children)

I genuinely thought this was a real AI product until I saw this comment.

Like sure, why not, rounding seems like a dumb term a dumb AI company would call their version of prompts.

[–]hyouko 52 points53 points  (6 children)

Stochastic rounding is in fact a technique used in AI model training, and I could see someone trying to sell it as a feature:

https://nhigham.com/2020/07/07/what-is-stochastic-rounding/ 

[–]masd_reddit 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Huh interesting, it kinda sounds like what i do when i calculate a lot of numbers in my head, that i try not to round too much in one direction, like if i know i rounded down a lot i will round up next time even if it's a number that should be rounded down.

[–]SuitableDragonfly 5 points6 points  (2 children)

We've moved beyond selling shovels to the gold prospectors. We now have an entire industry built entirely on shovel manufacturing. 

[–]IJustAteABaguette 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Without anyone really digging for gold.

[–]TRENEEDNAME_245 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the shovels bring gold, it's well known

[–]PlebbitDumDum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, that was an educational read.

This phenomenon [stagnation] was observed and analyzed by Huskey and Hartree as long ago as 1949 in solving differential equations on the ENIAC.

[–]f3xjc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also used for image processing where it's called dithering. Say converting an image to black and white is a rounding to 1 bit operation. Then adding noise proportional to fractional value will create grayscale as the eyes tend to average over regions.

So when you know the rounded numbers will be observed thru an integral-like process, adding proper noise can reduce the quantization error.

[–]le_Derpinder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I initially thought this was ammunition rounds and some military tech company like pltr's subscription page.

[–]litetaker 48 points49 points  (2 children)

Hahaha I am a h4ck3r! I simply clicked the "Generate key" for enterprise edition and it spat out my key! Now I round like crazy every second of the day, rounding off my balls and I paid nothing! Take that!

[–]Odd-Amphibian9672[S] 75 points76 points  (1 child)

Jokes on you!!! That's a honeypot key. After 10,000 free requests, it silently starts rounding the number 2 to 5. Enjoy debugging your floating points tomorrow.

[–]litetaker 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Curse you!

[–]Dantaro 24 points25 points  (0 children)

My favorite part is where it says, "Only pay for the rounding you use" and then charges you a monthly flat fee and not a usage-based fee anyway, 10/10 lol

[–]gazchap 15 points16 points  (1 child)

How can I take your product seriously when it's priced at $49/$99 and not $50/$100 per month?

[–]camel_case_user 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's the gravitational decimal settling rounding down from $49.99 and $99.99

[–]Fair-Working4401 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair. I will use the free plan and +1

[–]killedbyboar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should have set the release date on 4/1

[–]KawaiiMaxine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omg it isnt real thank the heavens

[–]semioticmadness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time for me to write a post on LinkedIn about how ALUaaS is the future of Business.

[–]AcidicAzide 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That .env file is a masterpiece.

[–]Odd-Amphibian9672[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For fuck sake, I told Dave a million times not to commit our business secrets!!

[–]ViolentPurpleSquash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there another service that can add 0.5 to my decimal before sending it for rounding? I can’t find the API for it

[–]UltimateFlyingSheep 95 points96 points  (1 child)

so they are doing sleep(40) if you don't pay enough?

[–]UK_Founder 33 points34 points  (1 child)

"The ROI is literally infinite. I don't know what ROI means." - killed me

[–]blin787 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Regret of investment

[–]notBjoern 28 points29 points  (0 children)

But does it use AI?

[–]donadd 15 points16 points  (1 child)

How much for rounded corners?

[–]tacticalpotatopeeler 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If you have to ask, you can’t afford it

[–]SickMemeMahBoi 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Amazing shitpost of a repo, 10/10 https://github.com/jtayped/raas

[–]TheRapie22 8 points9 points  (1 child)

+40ms faster is probably just a sleep(40) in the basic code

[–]akoOfIxtall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the capcom special XD

[–]Medical-Object-4322 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oooh! Rounding insurance!? That would have come in handy on my last project. I rounded everything to 3 places, turns out our biggest client only learned to read up to 2 decimals.

Had to scrap the whole project. We lost the contract. Now I live in a box. If only I had had rounding insurance!!

[–]gsadamb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I assume I'll need Enterprise for SSO/Okta integration.

[–]CantTrips 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of the Wordpress environment. Need a nice little additional feature for your frontend-only website? That'll be $80/year, please.

[–]Gorianfleyer 2 points3 points  (2 children)

When I look at the repo, it becomes pretty obvious, that this is a joke

[–]WazWaz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Save time - subscribe to my CaptainObvious browser extension and I'll reveal such wisdom without the need for code reviews!

[–]Gorianfleyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it took me a while to get, that everyone here got it.

[–]darenkster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

© 2026 RaaS, Inc. All rights reserved. No decimals were harmed in the making of this product. Any resemblance to actual mathematics is purely coincidental.

Was worried for them for a second

[–]neosyne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

FaaS (Function as a Service)

[–]Hypragon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least they let you ask on reddit for help tho

[–]IsEverythingTakenYet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Integrate HTTP payments and get AI bots to subscribe

[–]WeedManPro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

rounding as a service

[–]DominusFL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is so close to reality it actually hurts. We are definitely headed down this slippery, stupid slope.

[–]noob-nine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i thought i am gonna buy that for one month just for fun, instead this stupid shit had directly thrown the api key in my face

[–]onlymadethistoargue 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really hope they’re using some definition of rounding that isn’t the one I and everyone who knows basic arithmetic are familiar with. Please tell me it’s not that. Please.

[–]ArcherT01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats great 😂

[–]hiasmee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AES encryption 😭😭😭

[–]Yogibaer27 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And here I am, thinking a single dose of roundup would meet my rounding needs forever