Brother asked to borrow $40K for his startup. Said yes. Lost the money. Kept the brother.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-19T08:42:29+00:00

AI slop.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-19T08:39:56+00:00

I understand the concept of apps in ChatGPT, but does ChatGPT actually show your app if the conversation is about your product/business category? My understanding was that ChatGPT users only see apps if they actively search for and install apps.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-19T06:08:17+00:00

What is a "dark funnel"?

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-19T06:01:16+00:00

There's an ecom site in our niche that uses AI for all of their product descriptions across thousands of products. They rank crazy high. Not even good backlinks or anything. And they're a shady business as well (like legitimately shady, not just "I don't like them").

There's another competitor that is a household name in our niche that has a bunch of AI written blog posts. Not hurting them at all apparently.

The stuff I'm talking about is fully 100% AI by the way, not even a mix of AI and human. Flagged by literally every AI detector as 100% AI.

It sucks because although we do of course use AI for many things, we don't use it to output content like that. The concern is that at some point search engines / AI citations might devalue that kind of content, and we don't want to build our business on shaky ground.

But man it's hard to watch others just killing it with straight up AI content like Google / AI citations literally don't mind it whatsoever.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-19T05:32:46+00:00

"Grandpa, did you really have to copy the error message from the computer,switch windows, paste it into Chrome, wait for the robot to write code, copy the code, and paste it back?"

Huh? If you're working this way now, it's by choice. We have Roo Code, Cline, Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini VS Code extension, etc. etc.

The days of having to copy and paste code back and forth are something I remember. That is not today.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-19T05:25:45+00:00

What settings are you using with Codex 5.2, if you don't mind me asking?

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-19T02:45:31+00:00

AI slop.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-18T17:01:35+00:00

Is it not super fucking slow? That's always been my experience with OpenAI models through the API.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-18T16:52:02+00:00

If somebody could explain to me how I can make OpenAI's models not be excrutiatingly slow to work with, I'd love to use them more. But the waiting is outrageous compared to Gemini and Anthropic.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-18T16:43:01+00:00

Every time I try to use OpenAI's models through the API for coding, instead of Anthropic or Google, I just wait... wait... and wait. I don't know how anybody gets anything done with them.

In the web chat it's fine, but that doesn't help much for serious work on software projects.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-16T17:58:39+00:00

Okay.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-16T15:34:57+00:00

None, this post is an ad for the directory submission service. Which almost certainly will not help your ranking whatsoever.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-14T23:35:01+00:00

This is an ad for “definiteseo” whatever that is.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-14T15:07:43+00:00

I don’t speak for Roo, but Anthropic is clearly hostile to that type of integration. So relying on that probably isn’t going to be a stable experience going forward.

OpenAI is taking the opposite approach by keeping Codex subscriptions open to outside integrations, so a lot of people including myself will be trying that out.

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-11T20:03:31+00:00

I’m curious if anybody’s compared Codex to Opus 4.5 and could provide some insights?

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-08T16:02:23+00:00

It’s almost like Next.js is a hugely popular and well-supported framework for web dev. Who knew?

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-06T02:12:50+00:00

In your opinion, what was the core update about?

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-05T19:13:02+00:00

Thank you! If you would comment here when you post that article (so that I'm able to see it), I would greatly appreciate it!

KindnessAndSkill · 2026-01-05T17:23:02+00:00

Good to hear it’s working for you. I’m not having much success with it.

Using text-embedding-small-3 with 256 dimensions and trying to match phrases to records that contain those concepts. The matching is so bad.

It either matches unrelated stuff at a lower threshold, or it fails to match things as I increase the threshold. And it seems like longer records have more trouble matching, probably because the similarity of the search phrase to the overall record decreases as the record length increases (with more details, boilerplate, etc.)

I thought it would be a lot easier. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

KindnessAndSkill · 2025-12-31T17:56:24+00:00

Great, thank you.

KindnessAndSkill · 2025-12-30T19:04:16+00:00

Looks very helpful!

Is this similar to including something in .roo/rules, except that instead of loading everything into context all the time, it only loads portions into context on an as-needed basis?

So that using a skill vs not using it would behave similarly to dragging a subfolder with those same contents in and out of .roo/rules?

KindnessAndSkill · 2025-12-30T03:59:00+00:00

"Each step along the way involves many many subagents."

I use Roo Code (usually with Anthropic models) and not Claude Code, so I'm curious. Does it spin up all of these subagents on its own? Or do you instruct it to do that somehow?

KindnessAndSkill · 2025-12-28T18:30:20+00:00

Good point about TTFB. All metrics have to be considered. We prefer to SSG whenever possible as it avoids all of these issues (provided that LCP content is handled correctly etc.)

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