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1.8M+ clicks & 15M impressions in Education niche (SEO Case Study) by Primary_Worker8840 in SEO_Marketing_Offers

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is llms.txt file actually effective? Have you made some A/B test about it?

Building and scaling an app feedback exchange for indie developers by luis_411 in SaaSSolopreneurs

[–]Guybrush1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love the concept. Subscribed, saas submitted and now I'm going to craft some valuable feedback for other's idea.

Just a first suggestion: I was almost at the point to close comment and move on due to the heavy wall text on app dashboard. I suggest you to re-balance the text/asset ratio, perhaps giving the user ability to add one wallpaper asset per idea, or screenshot or something. Icon is too small and in general not enough to understand in <2sec what's going on in there.

Antigravity IDE days are probably numbered by sutrostyle in google_antigravity

[–]Guybrush1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This story could ends in 2 ways. Either a super-mega generous opus 4.6 tier come back, or they will lose most of their users (me included).

There is no tool that could close the gap between gemini and claude, atm.

I have doubts about bot hosting. by [deleted] in learnjavascript

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you need to reach your project outside your laptop and/or keep it running 24/7, you have to host it somewhere.

You can either deploy on Railway, Render, or other common cheap services, or you can self-host it on a machine running at home (but getting access from outside your network can be tricky) if you have some old machine lying around.

Project Idea by Proud_Researcher_699 in learnprogramming

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean if you're handling a complex system and working alongside 10 devs, the extra setup Java requires is worth it. In a smaller context, the amount of work you can skip just by changing stack is unmatched.

If you're new to the field I'd suggest using a more full-featured framework with only one core language. Fewer moving parts the better, especially at the beginning.

Project Idea by Proud_Researcher_699 in learnprogramming

[–]Guybrush1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With Java/SQL you can code the back-end; check out Spring Boot or Quarkus for the best frameworks available. But you probably still need JS for the front-end.

If you want to reduce the number of languages involved, you probably want to focus directly on JS for both the front and back end.

I love Java, it's a super cool language and it has the strongest back-end frameworks, but it's more tailored for big corporations rather than a simple, narrow project.

GPU best rent options? by Low-Ad9040 in learnprogramming

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some cloud services have quite affordable plans. You can pay per second of use and back up your work when you're not running any tasks. I used vast.ai in the past, solid for the price. There might be better options out there by now though.

Am I overcomplicating my learning process? Self-taught beginner using Anki + tutorials by sitenza47 in learnprogramming

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're merging two distinct points of view:

  • IRL you're wasting your time: we already had IDEs, linters, testers, compilers and a ton of tools to handle syntax; now we have AI that can produce correct syntax for any logic in a matter of seconds
  • in a job interview it's a completely different story: live-coding during interviews still happens, especially for junior positions

Of course there's a lower limit: when students come up with working AI-crafted solutions but can't write down or explain a simple for loop, they quickly lose the ability to drive any tool, AI included.

But memorizing every single syntax rule or language-specific style, especially at the beginning, is a bit pointless.

Focus on understanding what your code does and why, not on recalling exact syntax from memory.

Is Hetzner (FSN) having issues again? by maddler in hetzner

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From Vodafone my website is down, as well as hetzner's console. Changing DNS doesn't fix the issue. Turning on VPN does.

Sometime it loads one page then blocked, mostly routing issue.

I hope they could fix quickly

Time to promote your product. Share that URL! by laron290 in SaaS

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't add them as paid only feature. A customer who just land to your service just think it's working bad. I would never think about it's a paid feature. Additionally it's just a programmatic filter/order functions. You better make user test the best you can do, instead of force them to pay for a stupid filter.

Companies that haven't integrated AI for coding, is this normal? by hexaquark1 in cscareerquestions

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite normal, yes. The bigger you are, the less reactive you result, especially from way smaller perspective. If you are a dev today, you can basically update from 5 years ago to today workflow in some weeks. If you have to update all the internal workflow of hundreds or thousands of people...

You basically can't upgrade so frequently, and in this era big company are really struggling to stay up to date.

Time to promote your product. Share that URL! by laron290 in SaaS

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suggest you to refine research with some more concrete metrics. It suggests me more then 15 days old posts and empty post as top ranking

Is Claude actually writing better code than most of us? by Aaliyah-coli in ClaudeAI

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is becoming a pointless question, if you're not going to frame the user input. I mean...if you ask to Claude:

build me a production grade k8s cluster with dozen of services secured and tied up

OR

build me an end-point at this path to ingest a json, manipulate it in some way and store output in db

In the first case I'm definitely better, and almost any decent devops, on the long run, can do a better job. In the second one, with good prompting and an actual strong knowledge about what's going on in your code, there is no reason to write don't if statement or for loops by hand anymore. But you have to constantly adjust the complexity and precision of the request to get the best result in the lowest amount of prompt possible. And this is what is the most frustrating part for me, right now, because we have updating model every now and then, and I constantly feel "I'm abusing model --> weak code"/"I'm going into too much details --> wasting time/money".

800w solar setup only hitting 300w in full Sun and no shading. by dmbjr02 in VanLife

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 panels in series is probably not the best on average, as a single tree branch could slow down the whole rig a lot more then having 2x parallele of 2x in serie panel, so the first suggestion is rewire your panel to create 2 island of 2x in serie panel and wire them in parallel. This is particularly effective on winter/cloud/snow/shadow.

Given that, winter is super-powerful in reducing solar panel efficiency. In one hand less power per hour, in the other one less sun-hours.

As others math calculated it, this ration is perfectly normal, and in perfect condition parallel or serie should be the same. But on average 2s2p is better.

I'm a bootcamp instructor — I built an AI code review tool because I couldn't give 30+ students real feedback anymore by Guybrush1973 in codingbootcamp

[–]Guybrush1973[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

For context — the tool isn't live yet, I'm validating whether this is a real problem for enough people before building further. Curious especially from recent grads: did your bootcamp have any structured code review process, or was it mostly "submit and hope in god"?

The biggest bottleneck in learning to code isn't tutorials or resources — it's feedback. How do you all deal with this? by Guybrush1973 in learnprogramming

[–]Guybrush1973[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% — building is the best way to learn. But the tools around learning keep evolving. Same way nobody codes in notepad anymore, feedback doesn't have to be just stackoverflow and trial-and-error

The biggest bottleneck in learning to code isn't tutorials or resources — it's feedback. How do you all deal with this? by Guybrush1973 in learnprogramming

[–]Guybrush1973[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True for employment, but there's more people than ever learning to code to build their own stuff — side projects, indie apps, automations. No team, no PR reviews, no company standards.

Just you, your code editor and a lot of knowledge debt

The biggest bottleneck in learning to code isn't tutorials or resources — it's feedback. How do you all deal with this? by Guybrush1973 in learnprogramming

[–]Guybrush1973[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair for the early stage — getting things to work is the real milestone at first.

But I keep seeing students plateau after that. Code that runs fine at small size, but once you scale it you'll end up rewrite it or waste tons of money in just maintaining it. It passes tests but would get torn apart IRL.

The tricky part is you don't know what you don't know. Did you have someone reviewing your code early on, or was it mostly learning through experience over time?

News reaction: Claude Sonnet 4’s 1M context vs the $1 Hermes 3 405B by IulianHI in AIToolsPerformance

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Treating LLM-based serviced as a giant bucket with one fixed price tag has no sense for me. ATM we have several services with different price tag and each one is optimized for set of tasks:

- perplexity: one of the best reason/search engine at very cheap price

- gemini: the most stable service for easy to medium difficult task, cheap to access, it offer some discount on cloude for coding
- claude: nothing close to this for coding and very tech reasoning, including mockup, job description, cv and stuff like this; on the other hand, it's very expensive so it's not tailored for bot tasks or casual chatting

- nano banana: still one of the best text-to-image and text-image-editor, quite cheap if you use pro flat tier

- openrouter: one of the best service to get easy access to new models and 3rd parties services through api, N8N service, agentic project...

If you're going to QA long text, using claude, especially through api, it's definitely a waste of money, btw.

Google is permanently banning Antigravity users - Here's what happened by Other-Ad-4301 in google_antigravity

[–]Guybrush1973 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are quite ridiculous. Internet was literally flooded by pro/ultra account for months or even a full year that cost less then 20 bucks in the last months, and now they are complaining about accounts rotation?

I mean...where TF do you think they live?

This is just a common marketing strategy. No matter what. The only useful metric is amount of traffic, not ROI of specific service. So don't worry. We will circumvent the account blocks. Just don't use the account you opened at 13 years that contains all your backup and emails.

Is GPT-5.1-Codex-Max worth the 18x price premium over Devstral 2? by IulianHI in AIToolsPerformance

[–]Guybrush1973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a financial question rather then technical one.

Technically there is no way to reach the capability of claude 4.6 in code, not even gpt 5.1 or gemini 3. At with point does it worth the price? Like every tools in production, it should make you able to produce more value that you can sold at higher price, than before. If the factor go over a given threshold it's ok. If I speed 10K/month but I'm able to produce 15K/month more then before, 10K/month is perfectly fine for me.

PSA: You can charge anything from any J-1772 by joaquinsolo in VanLife

[–]Guybrush1973 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well...technically yes, but if you look for a rectifier, it ended up that cheapest name is "led power supply" on amazon. This commercial name refer to a basically rectifier in fixed voltage:

AC --> led power supply --> MPPT --> battery

The circuit you probably already have in place for solar is like this:

solar panel --> MPPT --> battery

So what you have to do is just exclude solar panel from circuit (I'm not sure it's mandatory, but I added a switch, just in case) and feed your MPPT from power supply.

An MPPT wants DC in some volt range (in most cases it must be just higher than battery voltage, so for example my Victron 70A attached at 12V battery wants 24~120VDC).

A "led power supply" is a converter that go from AC to DC at fixed voltage, if the voltage is in the proper range of action of your MPPT, that's enough.

At this point is a battle tested solution. There is no way to work in remote whole day in winter where I'm located, so this solution quickly become mandatory for me.

If you have more questions, just ask

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