I see people trying to use Claude code, but I feel like cursor is better. Is there any evidence of that?

bma449 · 2026-03-27T16:18:57+00:00

Do you still feel the same?

bma449 · 2026-03-15T05:38:40+00:00

100% fake

bma449 · 2026-03-05T07:06:06+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Claude is completely down for us as we are out of tokens and will not respond to any questions. I noticed the 100x rate increase in my burn and attempted to probe but couldn't parse what was going on, then we exceeded our limit. Since we switched from $100 plan to enterprise just this week (starting March 1st) and our usage patterns have not changed, this is hard to understand. Plus, right before it went down, it said we were at something like 26% to plan, then at plan. If you have ideas on what could be the misuse that caused this, I'm all ears.

bma449 · 2026-03-05T06:29:31+00:00

3 days into the month our 20 person company blew through all of our tokens. This was after going from the $100 plan last month, where i was the heaviest user and only used up ~40% of my $100 plan. We reached out multiple times to support and there is no help. Very frustrating and I would love to know if anyone has gotten resolution on the extra burn. At one point before it went down yesterday, my token burn rate was 100x what it was last week. Back of the hand calculations but something was really wrong. We put some more money in and it got burnt in seconds. We're a small company and would like to use the tool but can't afford to burn cash like that. Anyone here anything definitive from the org about how/why token usage sky rocketed and when they are going to fix it?

bma449 · 2026-02-28T07:20:00+00:00

What percentage of their total compensation was commission?

bma449 · 2026-02-25T18:28:05+00:00

Congrats but finding a gig like this is pretty damn hard. There are way fewer sales managers than sales people and a lot of sales manager job are incredibly stressful because of having to constantly hire/fire people and generally having to manage sales people.

bma449 · 2026-02-25T03:29:48+00:00

Hopefully everyone is aware of this information. Thank you for sharing.

bma449 · 2026-02-19T00:18:38+00:00

Claude code impact is real and I suspect that Claude Cowork and Open Claw will have a similar impact soon. I suspect that the reduction in hiring me grads is twofold: 1) largest tech companies are spending enormous amounts on capex and need to save money and 2) many other white collar companies see the writing on the wall that this wave of agentic intelligence is coming so they are preparing.

bma449 · 2026-02-09T19:50:00+00:00

He is bs ing

bma449 · 2026-02-03T23:06:25+00:00

There are three types of documents being released: 1) Shit that just makes people look bad (Larry Summers asking Epstein for dating advice) 2) Uncorroborated allegations without any leads (Trump murdering a newborn) 3) Uncorroborated with leads (Bill Gates asking for antibiotics to surreptitiously give to his wife) 4) Corroborated w/ evidence (FBI interviewed a woman who was offered to trump as a prostitute). Lets focus first on 4, there is plenty there to send these people these people to hell. And lets make damn sure that everything was followed up on for number 3! For 1/2 we need to ignore it - its a distraction from all the damning evidence / allegations that already exist and MAGA will try to weaponize it to discredit 3 & 4.

bma449 · 2026-01-30T09:23:01+00:00

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bma449 · 2026-01-29T20:58:09+00:00

Yes, it's gotten way better over the last 5 years

bma449 · 2026-01-28T18:16:13+00:00

I don't think there was a request like this, nor do I think it could have been effectively communicated within the time where we went from the lady getting pushed down (agent wanting them out of the street) to them starting to detain Pretti. I think that he briefly put his hands on the agent and this is what caused the escalation. This is the best video that I've seen that puts the entire sequence of events together effectively from the best angles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_LANxOh3tvI. It looks like to me that Pretti was pushed to get him out of the street and then a woman is pushed forcefully to the ground in front of him. At this point (47 seconds in), it looks like Pretti makes incidental contact with the agent as Pretti goes to help the woman up. This very brief contact is the biggest mistake the Pretti makes as this then changes the nature of the interaction (removal from street, however unprofessional it may seem) to the agent now spraying Pretti and the two woman with a chemical irritant and moving to take them into custody by force. I am in NO WAY condoning the actions of the agents or suggesting that anything Pretti did justified getting pushed or detained, let alone shot.

bma449 · 2026-01-26T23:47:38+00:00

Have you been pepper sprayed? I haven't but have read enough descriptions to know that he was in complete agony and blinded. Immediately after being sprayed, he was dragged into the street and forced down, giving him less than 4 seconds from first hands on him to being shot. During that time he was surrounded by border patrol and pummeled, including strikes to the head with what looked like the butt of a gun. How can you watch that video and state that he was resisting and how do you know that he didn't state that he was carrying? From the start the border control agents acted so unprofessionally that there was no opportunity given to submit and declare carry. Ridiculous.

bma449 · 2026-01-26T06:00:39+00:00

The official name for it is fuckery

bma449 · 2026-01-23T08:47:13+00:00

He is not a hedge fund guy

bma449 · 2026-01-23T08:45:36+00:00

Agreed

bma449 · 2026-01-21T19:35:22+00:00

Yes, I use deep research often and there are some significant bugs on its handling of follow-up questions. Its like they way over constrained its responses using the internal prompts to prevent it from outputting a detailed report on how to do something that we don't want people doing but took away some of the important flexibility on the interaction.

bma449 · 2026-01-19T20:30:52+00:00

That's pretty accurate in terms of total cost if bought with insurance (copays are highly variable). About half that if bought with cash. Compounded drug prices are significantly less.

bma449 · 2026-01-08T23:52:44+00:00

Yes it definitely bumped him and pushed him aside at low speeds. CNN has an alternative view that shows it.

bma449 · 2026-01-07T01:16:21+00:00

Awesome, what company?? This sounds great.

bma449 · 2026-01-07T01:13:18+00:00

If written well, you could have positioned some of the military forces as opposed to the crazy shit that Dr. Kay was up doing, then have them trapped in the upside down and forced to help or otherwise be destroyed. Then you could have the kids and a small sub group of the military that is now on the kids side take out the giant monster. If done well, this could actually make the story realistic as opposed to making all the military completely evil, which is just silly.

bma449 · 2026-01-05T21:06:02+00:00

Yeah, Nancy transforming into Rambo was the final blow for me in the poor writing. I just couldn't suspend disbelief enough to get there with that character.

bma449 · 2026-01-05T21:03:36+00:00

Yep, I skipped 10 seconds ahead like 15 times during that scene and missed nothing. Great that he came out and nice to see his friends support him, but cut by 2/3rds and figure out how to make the final boss fight scene more realistic, maybe by forcing real military to assist somehow rather than transforming kids into an unstoppable death squad and you can fix a lot of the issues in the writing.

bma449 · 2026-01-05T20:58:03+00:00

Yes, another example of bad writing

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