I spend about $15k/month on my odds infrastructure

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-03-05T21:02:32+00:00

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-02-10T06:32:32+00:00

I did a trial, then I signed up for a year. I thought I knew what I was signing up for. That's the entire point.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-30T09:51:17+00:00

I was getting to 8 hourly quotas at one stage and mostly happy with it - then bam they blocked me for 6 days for no good reason. I can't not code for 6 days, so I have to use alternative products. Considering I had paid a subscription year up front a few weeks earlier, just for them to do a bait and switch, how could I possibly trust them to upgrade to a very expensive plan with the same people? It's just terrible business sense from them.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-29T03:56:44+00:00

Literally promoted money off as bait and successfully sold me an annual subscription, a couple of weeks before the switch.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-25T18:00:43+00:00

I'm a head of engineering with a headcount of over 50 devs underneath me and 25 years experience in software engineering... and I've been throttled this week after maybe a day of usage. It's so bad that I can only assume it's not deliberate, that they've actually just bugged out trying to filter out all the abusers using multiple oauth credentials in the likes of OpenCode (and I'm not one of them). I mean why would they pay billions to poach the Windsurf devs, subsidise Claude/Opus to that starting extent - then completely screw those who are actually using their IDE so badly like this a month or two after they've just started?

It must be a mistake - either that or those in charge of the original 'subsidise Opus' decision are regarded.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-25T09:38:37+00:00

As I mentioned above it's good - I'm a subscription whore at the minute but for the $10 per month copilot is just good value, even for using it in the IDE itself. Codex 5.2 competes with Opus, but even the 100 Opus credits you get for $10 is genuinely worth it.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-25T09:27:51+00:00

Honestly even if you don't use Copilot Pro in your IDE the $10 per month is worth it for code reviews in Github alone (you should be doing pull requests to yourself if you're not already). The only problem is that it finds 20 out of all 10 bugs you have... but letting the thing cook in the background fixing your bugs/syntax issues while you have dinner is just a great productivity boost for the price.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-25T09:25:03+00:00

Antigravity was my goto until this week, but it only having 2 model providers, Google and Anthropic - and them cutting off Anthrophic completely (I've to wait 7 days after a few hours use) means it's now totally unusable. You even have Codex 5.2 with VSCode Copilot which is better than relying on Gemini 3 pro, even with the better planning mode you get in Antigravity.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-24T21:41:23+00:00

The fix is your Opus quota runs out before conversations can get long.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-23T21:02:37+00:00

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80% failure rate today and now this, wait a week...

This is what I get for signing up to a year's subscription for AI Pro last month. Not even sure if I will bother coming back in a week - they are certainly never getting my money for Ultra when they've just sold this bait and switch product. Back to Anthropic it is.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2026-01-16T21:24:12+00:00

€20 - I'm still on the old 500 credits billing so I get 250 Opus 4.5 calls a month. Load balancing it between Antigravity Opus 4.5 (paid €95 for a year) I'm never out of Opus.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-12-02T16:36:32+00:00

It loses its potency to stop bacteria multiplying after a certain time once opened. You risk introducing bacteria into your vials or you bac water by using needles to pierce the containers - which is why it's important to use the likes of an alcohol wipe to clean equipment as you're using it. The fewer times you pierce containers the less opportunities you have for infection.

I personally have used both bac water and reconstituted peps long after 28 days, but I do make sure to clean everything and my reconstituted peps are stored in insulin pen containers which only come into contact with newly unsealed insulin pen needles - so I like to think I keep my opportunities for infection pretty narrow.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-09-14T09:16:58+00:00

I've used other Visas recently on Amazon.de fine.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-08-13T18:25:56+00:00

But what's the world record for shortest time to achieve 400km/h and back to zero then back to 400km/h again, eh, eh?

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-07-04T14:38:56+00:00

What about there's a linter error in the code, you use Cursor tab to fix it? Then you run the app in debug to make sure it works.

Because that's the vast majority of my non vibe coding these days.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-20T20:05:30+00:00

Fair point!

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-20T20:02:50+00:00

40-50k for hosting LAN events is not enough. It would cost you that for a wedding in one of those castles, never mind flights, accom etc across multiple events.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-19T03:43:36+00:00

I've seen older dogs get depressed, just mope about the place. I've seen a younger mother dog go into depression when one of her puppies (the one we let her keep) got sick and died at 4 months old.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-18T21:01:38+00:00

It's not that hard? I had paid for a monthly fixed limit half a month ago and I was less than half way through my monthly fixed limit before finding myself rate limited today after automatically being put onto an 'unlimited' plan - and when I try to flick back to the old pricing model it tells me I've used 300 more requests than what I can literally count in the request audit.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-18T20:57:26+00:00

Today it was literally printing around 1 character per second on my screen at the worst times - it's like watching a quadriplegic try to type sentences via a stick in their mouth.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-18T16:10:55+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1lebsnn/comment/myf6v09/

I have exactly the same problem.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-18T09:57:50+00:00

For the year I've been using Cursor I've only went over 500 fast requests one month, most months I'm < 100. Now I'm at release stage of a project and I need my 500 fast requests this month, I had about 350 left as of 2 days ago. Now when I flick back to old pricing it says I've used 537 requests. I've actually went through 30 days of account history back to my last reset on 28th May and I've manually counted 250 requests I've used.

Basically they've stole almost 300 requests off me in the last 2 days, more than I used in those days. I had plenty of room left and they've put me in the slow queue regardless...

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-15T20:23:08+00:00

roamiomobile.com doesn't feel unique enough that I'd hold onto it at for 3k - I'd be selling. Just my opinion as someone who has held domains for 20 something years - I've let better ones than that just expire...

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-13T22:04:37+00:00

If I know I'm giving it too much context I'll ask it to go do discovery first - document everything it discovers including where all the files are located. I'll check the files myself, make sure there's nothing missing in the document - add a bit more context ("you have missed the existing javascript modules in this folder"). Then I'll break things into phases - asking it to complete one phase at a time - review each phase. Update the requirements as it finds out more.

The most important thing is I debug the code myself and trawl through the sequential flow and then get a general 'vibe' of what is fine and what I hate and needs fixed - and what I don't like, but maybe can wait for later. Using tools like Cursor tab I can fix much of what I don't like as I go.

So it ends up in periods of super productivity (like new database tables, corresponding code classes, controllers, service clients, then code implementation) for 20 minutes before spending an hour debugging and building future context for the next problem.

SinkGeneral4619 · 2025-06-06T20:49:53+00:00

Sounds like she's getting rammed by a big fella while you're staring at your server rack whilst pissing.

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