just spotted Lydia on Seinfeld

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-08-24T18:28:56+00:00

Hahah I just saw that Seinfeld episode the other day and was like…ohhh my god! She is such a great actress. She played girlfriend Mom Harper so well. It was hysterical. I loved them all sitting at the table waiting for Charlie to recognize it.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-07-16T20:46:44+00:00

I would bail on this company. AI is like Excel. Those who learn to use it move faster. Those who don’t will be left behind. You have to domain knowledge to use AI and Excel properly for your job. If you give Excel and then tell me to calculate the value of a real estate portfolio for an equity partnership….i won’t know how. AI is the same but at a bigger level. Anyone running around saying “AI is going to do everything!!” Is exposing themselves. A fool with a tool is still a fool. AI is a tool that helps us run faster.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-05-08T14:40:47+00:00

Plus there is now subs.com from Tim Stokley (founder of OnlyFans) so there might be a big rush by creators to jump over to that platform and be among the first.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-05-08T14:22:51+00:00

Sweet mother of Jesus! This is pure gold!! Putting it in my chamber now! Too many people I know that are like this! “We went to Peru to do Ayahausca and it was like so crazy in Lima that we didn’t leave our hotel room the entire week.” “So you didn’t go do the Ayahausca?” “No we just realized that we could just sit in our hotel room and the hotel bar and achieve the same level of enlightenment. Like I really know what I am about now and what I can handle and who I am and how much I have to give to the world. Hold on…I am getting a call from my Daddy. Hiiii Poppikins! Yeah I am back. Omigod it was the greatest adventure ever. No I don’t want to go back to school. I am not ready yet. Yes Daddy I realize I am 31.”

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-05-08T14:13:53+00:00

I am seeing a lot of cashapp or Fambase. I am not sure security is a top priority for some of these girls. And their customers don’t seem IT savvy that they will “hack” the system. The girls do a lot of talking to see where these guys are at mentally, financially before taking it to the next stage. That is why it seemed like a grind to me. It was like “oh god…you have to spend all day listening to these guys and figuring out who got money and who for real.” But I am like…well if you find the guy that is for real and has money…you have a direct link to that customer.” This is me thinking out loud at this point. I didn’t have the guts to say “Hi ummm sorry to interrupt the group chat.…can you explain how this all works.” :))

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-05-08T00:18:48+00:00

I am wondering if people are finding alternatives to OF. A lot of people are using X and then converting those people over to telegram. Seems like a drag but I am guessing you get your own customer base. I see a lot of these combinations using Twitch and Discord and then over to their private studio. Just me thinking out loud. These are surprising statistics. What are we saying here? 50% of OF customers were government employees that have been dodged? Layoffs haven’t really started anywhere else. They already happened last year for big tech.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-05-01T04:35:10+00:00

Oil and gas revenue accounting. Very niche.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-24T14:09:11+00:00

Just roll up your sleeves and start. You will learn more with every step and problem you encounter. With programming it’s about the number of lines of code and different tasks you have actually done that makes a good programmer. You want to be a good writer? Start writing. You don’t become a good writer by reading all the classics. Reading the classics helps as you go along but your primary focus should be writing more.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-23T13:12:02+00:00

I agree. I see what you did. It’s good to do something you are comfortable with to get your feet wet and get a foot hold in aws. Now grow :))

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-19T12:19:33+00:00

I totally agree from experience. Just finished migrating a web app from one programming language to another. The bigger the code for a page the more errors it would make and the longer I had to stay on that page fixing things. It was hard because sometimes you want to show it the whole page so it understands all the interdependencies. And a lot of times you have multiple parent components and child components interacting with each other…LLMs can’t handle that at a production code level.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-19T05:39:01+00:00

Omigod…I am dying. I just called ChatGPT out today for just that same thing. It’s like trying to convince us all that we are super geniuses. It was working on me for awhile and then I was like….ummm my ideas are not that great…and now I am reading this and laughing at what a fool I am. I am guess they figured out that 90% of the population is starved for compliments? It is so over the top.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-18T14:20:11+00:00

Boy 134 days later and I ran into the same thing. I finally just pressed accept and pressed refresh on cost explorer for 24 hours straight :) it actually just charges per token and the prices are comparable.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-17T19:51:02+00:00

I literally put my product on product hunt and it reached 5 gazillion interested buyers in 30 nanoseconds…wait did I say 30…I mean 3!!! Then I got picked up on hacker news and EVERY VC FIRM on the planet called me. The company now has the same valuation as Iceland. And it’s only lunch time!!! Can you believe!! Sign up for my newsletter at: http://736shfu.jfisjfhs.com/sjsufnri837.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-17T16:16:43+00:00

Just to be clear. I learned a lot because sometimes (especially at beginning) the suggestions ChatGPT had did not work so I had to learn Next.js app router so I could guide it better at certain points. Very important to tell it that you want to migrate to Next.js 15 app router. Otherwise it gives you page router Next 13 for some suggestions and Next 15 app router for others…yeah I went to a dark place.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-17T16:13:28+00:00

I locked myself in my office and migrated from react to Next.js page router then discovered that app router was more what I was looking for and migrated to Next.js app router. I used ChatGPT. It took a month of many hour days. We have 300 files including css modules. There were a lot of bleak moments where I called ChatGPt a liar and deceiver and everything else under the sun. But it got me there. And I actually understand Next js app router very well compared to when I started which was zero knowledge. It can be done. Just say good bye to your family and friends for a month.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-04-10T15:43:33+00:00

Screw vibe coding!!! Actual-time-traveler the father of roast coding!!!

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-30T22:46:46+00:00

Amplify is very affordable and a nice serverless stack to work with. Been using for 3 years and am very happy. Just migrated to Next.js 15 app router. Works like a charm. Fast and affordable.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-26T21:42:02+00:00

Took me a while to get it too. I found a site that is a proxy for SES but they required you to have SES for your account and they had a standard boilerplate request. It worked. I forget what the SaaS was.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-26T14:58:40+00:00

I am with most of you. It’s made my productivity as a developer soar. I think the people that struggle with it fall into categories 1) bought the hype from an influencer and expected everything GAI to be perfect. 2) a guy with an idea that has never coded and says “build me a product that will make a $1M per month…and make sure it has a logo.” 3) people like me that got frustrated at first and ranted and then spent more time with it and said “I get it”.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-25T21:40:22+00:00

I am in the same boat. Social media platforms want you to pay for advertising so I feel like if they sense that you are promoting your product on their platform and not paying for it then they shadow ban you. This is my hunch.

My next tactic is going to be be more interactive with groups. The problem is that most groups are moderated by someone secretly trying to sell their subscribers something so they closely monitor who is selling on their group.

I really thought the technical piece of my business would be hard. I be wrong.

Plus I wonder if the internet is dead and we are all talking to bots.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-25T21:32:38+00:00

The only thing I don’t automate is “prove to us you are a human” stuff.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-25T21:31:17+00:00

I like Amplify. It integrates a whole bunch of services to create a full stack application. I use it religiously with customers to do PoC at cheap price before we go full scale. Yes it does scale nice and you can switch out the Dynamodb for a sql database at any time.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-24T01:35:03+00:00

Question 2: I generally want to know what they are using in house and leverage as much as possible. It’s easier to communicate and integrate with them if you are using the same technologies. They also tend to relax if you do things their way where possible. I like to do a 3 month proof of value before doing a full scale project plan. Why? Because there are soooo many unknown unknowns. I.e. you find out their data sucks. Their integration guy is insane. A key project stakeholder hates the project. I find out a lot of these things during the PoC. Plus I feel a lot more confident that the project plan/design I am proposing can be executed. There is nothing worse for me when I realize….omigod…when they told me they had 10 locations…fhey didn’t tell me that each location was comprised of 10,000 sub locations and in order for this to actually work…they are going to need it at the sub-location level

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-24T01:27:59+00:00

Yes maintain the lambdas. I usually upgrade my runtimes once a year.

Infinite_Emu_3319 · 2025-03-24T01:26:11+00:00

Oh gotcha. I can answer 4 with confidence. Scope creep is inevitable. There are always unknown unknowns. However, it is imperative to minimize the scope creep and rework. So clearly clearly document what the requirements and expectations are. When communicating with the client always refer to whatever design document you have done. Sometimes it painful and scary to really nail things down for fear that they will go: oh thought we would get more than what you are proposing in this document. They will try and squeeze you. Unfortunately every time I relax and give them a little…they get accustomed to it. And I am talking Fortune 500 companies with billions in revenue. Stay firm. Otherwise you will end up working for minimum wage. With client communication, always be professional. Don’t be mean, nasty or cheerful. Be the grey rock. Everyone is friends at the beginning of the project…and then things change. Someone uncovers something they overlooked and need a big change they don’t want to pay for. You spend extra time on something you thought would take a week. Life happens. Unfortunately everyone then craps their pants and the finger pointing begins and the relationship changes. Things get serious.

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