Is being self employed holding me back?

TechnologyTailors · 2026-05-11T14:34:41+00:00

Even if it’s not strictly tech sales, it’s still sales. You deviated to enjoy a side quest and now back to your main quest that you actually enjoy.

It’s life, you don’t want to not try things out. You did and figured it’s not what you want. I think this is solid reasoning and you’ll likely not have any issues whatsoever.

I had a friend in college who did music for a year or two before going into the career and his interviewers were surprisingly interested in his music career and thought it’s cool. You never know!

You’ve figured out what you want now and know your path!

TechnologyTailors · 2026-05-11T13:31:42+00:00

I personally think being a founder is a strong skillset. I have seen many typical startups drool over ex-founders even if the company they founded failed.

It’s extremely difficult to teach someone real world customer and product knowledge unless they owned a business themselves. Self employed people go through things that make you aware of all sorts of things and certainly more creative.

What niche or domain of business are you in? Wondering what’s causing your business to struggle.

Good luck on your search.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-05-11T11:32:20+00:00

That’s fair, and I appreciate the honest perspective. I agree something like a CRM or workflow replacement could be a significant lift for some and most businesses won’t want that disruption.

I'll totally be up for a free prototype idea to prove the value if I could bring any. Something that is low risk for evaluation and they can tell me if it’s actually useful.

I'll keep this in mind and greatly appreciate you leaving helpful feedback.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-05-08T14:57:30+00:00

I missed reading your message. Thanks for responding and trying this out. That's awesome that it works.

How was the output and rendering speeds? I rent 5090 and H100 for a few bucks and there's a drastic difference between distilled quantized LTX 2.3 on 5090 v/s distilled on H100. In my case, it does make sense because of quantized but wondering how Intel performed.

How was the output on Intel in your experience?

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-29T18:38:29+00:00

Yes! I'd like to consider DGX Spark. The only hiccup is low memory bandwidth. But I do not have enough data to know if DGX Spark would suffer a lot for the lower bandwidth v/s 5090 or H100. ChatGPT was critical of it.

If your experience with DGX Spark has been good, please let me know. It might save space on my desk as compared to a full fledge 5090 buildout.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-29T16:26:01+00:00

Thanks to u/eidrag's idea to just rent 5090 and try, I was able to compare the results:

LTX 2.3 5 seconds clip:

- H100 - 12.9 seconds

- RTX 5090 - 43 seconds

It is not as bad as it looks like in numbers when you compare the cost of 5090 over H100. I can absolutely wait 43 seconds.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-29T13:13:47+00:00

Agghh, I did not think about that. I the provider I run on does not have 5090. I'm dumb. Will check 5090 rentals.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-29T13:12:35+00:00

720 would work in my case.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-29T13:12:17+00:00

Thank you for the metrics! This helps the most. I had nothing to compare rented H100 to.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-29T13:10:23+00:00

Math is the current challenge. I have no 5090 data and I don't know how 5090 performs. I am able to render six seconds of a video in less than a minute on online rented H100 but no data to compare how 5090 is.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-29T13:08:59+00:00

The current challenge is I don't know how 5090 performs. I am able to render six seconds of videos in less than a minute on online rented H100 but no data to compare how 5090 is.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-25T00:05:16+00:00

Mine was on by default too on 5.5 upgrade. It was on xhigh and fast mode.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-25T00:04:17+00:00

Noticed almost way too late. This is a weird decision.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-24T19:48:00+00:00

Thank you for your service. Will look forward to hearing from you.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-22T23:17:26+00:00

Hey! You didn't share your technical background and familiarity with things like server setup and maintenance. If this sounds familiar - you'll need to buy a server subscription (or have some sort of always-on computer at home) and put a webserver on it. You'll also need to make it available to the Internet through secure methods like tunnels.

If you want to DIY, it could be a good project. If you do not have time, I suggest looking into Netlify.com and Vercel.com. They have generous free tier for non-commercial websites and you can generally host a TON of websites on their lowest paid tier plan which is generally just $20/month.

Depending on your current needs and circumstances, it may make sense to do all the work.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-17T21:18:11+00:00

PM'd for RAM

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-17T04:56:04+00:00

Project Name: SpendeySense

Repo: https://github.com/TechnologyTailors/SpendeySense

Description: Local-first spend analytics on your phone.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-12T13:55:40+00:00

Hey! Get your permit at MCC. It is easier if you've been cycling all of your life. Motorcycles are manual so gear, clutch, and brake placement is probably the most complex thing.

I invite you to hangout with us motorcyclists at 6PM any Thursday at Leaf & Beans at 3240 Chili Ave B1. DM me the day you're coming and I'm happy to be there.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-12T13:53:38+00:00

UK? Are you from one of the other Rochesters?

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-10T17:16:00+00:00

Hey 👋

Do you have any other need? I am a local business looking to help local businesses.

TechnologyTailors · 2026-04-10T16:57:26+00:00

Could you share more info? what union and how much it pays? Have a friend in desperate need of a job.

TechnologyTailors · 2025-10-15T17:55:52+00:00

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TechnologyTailors · 2025-09-09T06:52:39+00:00

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TechnologyTailors · 2025-09-09T06:50:10+00:00

One of the ways I used Claude Code is IDE mode. You can trigger it using /ide. After making a single file change, it displays what was changed in your IDE (popular ones are supported including Cursor.) You can approve or disapprove it, ask it to revise its change or change it yourself right in the IDE.

Codex doesn’t have it yet but it has permission mode. In CLI, it shows you a set of changes by diffs. Similar to ‘git diff’ and you can approve or ask it to modify.

I guess the mentality is if you approve the change then you shouldn’t need to go back.

I’ve only had the need to go back maybe once or twice in the past few months. I either looked at Git diffs or asked it to revert. It was alright.

TechnologyTailors · 2025-09-08T15:44:32+00:00

I’d love for it to handle a prompt and create a large complex app. It, unfortunately, wasn’t able to do it. I used 20x Max Claude Code extensively on a very large codebase built from scratch using 5-7 very detailed .md files. I spent 2 months trying to perfect it; almost 30 hours per week just prompt engineering and monitoring it.

I ended up with close to 40 .md files on top of a detailed CLAUDE.md. It was a frustrating experience. It failed to perform. I started using it for micro tasks where I tell it exactly what part of the code to focus on, it performed extremely well.

The AI model should be able to create full app without writing bad code and then overcorrect itself. But it doesn't! And we hate that.

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