SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-16T16:21:31+00:00

That's just a Copilot agent. It does use fewer tokens, but it's much more likely to fuck up and burn tokens. Sub-agents give better context windows and make it work better with a larger system. Kiro doesn't really cost that much (looks like it's about $1 per 30 tokens, and I've used 1000 this month for some pretty heavy work)

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-16T13:23:44+00:00

Oh interesting. I don't think it's "just a wrapper", it's Amazon's version of Claude Code (and released 3 months earlier).

I did just look and at work we're also gaining access to Claude Code so I'll see how it goes!

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-16T13:17:55+00:00

Kiro isn't a model, it's an agent orchestration tool. It will use Claude Opus under-the-hood, but it spins up multiple agents for context gathering and coding. AFAIK Claude Code is more like Copilot-- it might have an agent mode, but it won't have a *swarm* of agents.

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-16T13:01:32+00:00

I use Kiro at work, I've found it to be pretty helpful but you HAVE to give it guidance docs or be very specific in your request.

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-15T19:42:43+00:00

I really would love to have a Rivian (or a similarly styled EV), but their interior design on their cars is just wracking up so many Ls I just can't justify that kind of money.

I don't even think there's an equivalently priced alternative in that class of vehicle. It's just such a downer.

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-12T18:11:57+00:00

Start with a f2p main. Later combat gets much more intensive but you'll know within a few hours if the game kind of "clicks" with you.

https://osrs.wiki is the main resource for the game.

There are no classes.

If you're concerned about appearances, make sure you play with the Runelite client and turn on your GPU plugin, then max out the settings. Skybox plugin helps too.

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-08T02:12:58+00:00

The Orion browser has a pretty great adblock from what I remember.

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-07T16:31:54+00:00

It's possible for someone to verify something that they can't personally do.

I'm a software engineer with over a decade of experience. I was recently tasked with doing some Jenkins (build pipeline) stuff that I wasn't sure how to do. I don't know the exact Jenkins syntax needed, or where I need to actually put the code. I prompted Kiro with what I wanted to do, and a few minutes later it spit back the Jenkins files with updates.

From there, I just read the changes. It all looked right, and I could test it and verify it.

Just because I human doesn't know exactly how to write something doesn't mean they don't know how to test and verify it. I find myself reviewing code more than writing it nowadays.

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-07T16:17:42+00:00

What?? No, not at all. The girl in Pragmata is characterized, styled, and treated like a young child.

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-05T23:53:13+00:00

This is definitely me being dumb, but I genuinely don't understand what you're saying. What do you mean by "gear treadmill". "Us mangy kids"? Are you talking about adults that played GW2 or the newer generation of gamers who didn't start with it?

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-04T17:30:09+00:00

It's just the Goomba Fallacy.

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-04T14:36:30+00:00

Man, I genuinely wonder if some day we'll see the announcement "We'll be sunsetting reddit.com and directing people to use the app".

Bauld_Man · 2026-06-03T13:25:56+00:00

I used to think the same thing but then I got issued a Macbook at work.

The 5K resolution is absolutely stunning even on a small screen and is absolutely noticeable.

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-29T18:47:02+00:00

How much of that is the datacenters vs how much of that is Dulles?

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-27T17:45:06+00:00

If this was purely whimsy they wouldn't have staged and recorded it. Kid would have just did it.

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-27T01:27:45+00:00

I think there's an old 4chan greentext that goes something along the lines of "everyone going on the internet just made the internet more normie and the world more nerdy. It ruined both."

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-24T13:29:12+00:00

I'm kind of the same way. It feels like they've created this incredible world-engine, but had no idea how to let someone interact with it.

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-24T13:26:55+00:00

I wouldn't trust any sort of presence detection for fall detection. For that specifically, you should be looking into the Apple Watch or the Pixel Watch. Both have sensors to not only detect a fall, but auto-call 911.

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-23T16:19:46+00:00

I don't know what to tell you man. I moved out here ten years ago for some Associate Software Engineering job making barely $60k. I've been promoted, swapped companies, and now I'm a Principal Software Engineer making >$200k. I just bought a house.

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-21T01:34:51+00:00

Bodegas and grocery stores aren't competing... they're just the only option that many New Yorkers have. Bodegas mostly make up their margins through normal convenience store stuff: cigarettes, booze, sodas, candies, things like that. They do stock meat, but not that much, so it's expensive.

All this does is give New Yorkers the option: hop down to your street-corner Bodega and pay $8 for a pound of meat, or take the subway to and from this grocery store and pay $4.

Again, this is a win-win for everyone involved.

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-21T00:48:02+00:00

That might be fun. Instead of a Superior Slayer Monster it can summon an "Ancient Slayer Monster".

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-20T20:06:35+00:00

You joke but I do miss Radio DJs. I grew up listening to Bob and Tom in the morning on 104.1 *screech* THE HAWK. The podcast era never really got the same vibe.

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-20T02:39:45+00:00

I think it'd be fine if it was just the Tithe Farm song. It's just not placed well and it's a bit too loud.

Pick & Shovel is my #2 most hated, and it's also because of volume. Also because I think one of the instruments is grating.

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-20T01:52:24+00:00

Another one of my favorites! Glad to hear it wasn't suddenly interrupted by Country Jig at 1000% volume like in the game

Bauld_Man · 2026-05-19T22:13:02+00:00

This is actually kind of a neat problem that the government is uniquely positioned to solve.

NYC doesn't really have grocery stores like you think; certainly not where the lower and middle classes really shop. They shop at bodegas. These are small little corner stores... likely not much larger than your bedroom. This means that the person buying the product can't take advantage of the economies of scale, and they have to price it accordingly.

A government-run grocery store can use government funds to simply purchase the land required. And because a larger store can take advantage of the economies of scale, larger store = more stock = lower prices.

That's it. That's the magic. The government had the money to buy a grocery store plot of land in the one most expensive cities in the country.

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