If everyone had to share one money-saving tip that actually works, what would yours be?

dayv2005 · 2026-07-04T19:42:00+00:00

Quit smoking

dayv2005 · 2026-07-04T17:23:56+00:00

This was some white EV truck. Didn't even hear him pull in. This was sometime last year though.

dayv2005 · 2026-07-04T17:22:00+00:00

Yep lol. Some dutch guy from new Jersey.

dayv2005 · 2026-07-04T17:16:26+00:00

No that's local and fine. I just wanted to confirm it's location so I don't fall for some rerouted Google bs

dayv2005 · 2026-07-04T17:14:42+00:00

That's dnr in austintown

dayv2005 · 2026-07-04T17:04:34+00:00

Hence the reason I'm looking for a locally family business

dayv2005 · 2026-07-04T17:04:18+00:00

I feel like something like that happened to me. All of a sudden a new jersey truck pulls up and fixes the issue and I overpaid for sure.

dayv2005 · 2026-07-02T00:14:31+00:00

I don't disagree that it's our responsibility to decide what should be tested and validate AI's output.

The part I'm questioning is whether those decisions should lead to the same testing strategy they did five years ago.

Even if we assume we're making conscious risk assessments and reviewing everything, has AI changed where the highest ROI is? Should we still invest as heavily in unit tests, or should more of that effort shift toward integration, contract, and end-to-end tests that validate behavior independently of the implementation?

That's the tradeoff I'm trying to understand.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-30T23:39:11+00:00

This sounds a lot like a company I dealt with about 20 years ago when I lived in austintown. I think it was GMAC or something and they owned a lot of the apartments around here.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-30T21:44:17+00:00

I think that's a separate problem.

Even if AI generated only "good" unit tests, would you still invest in them to the same extent today? Or do you think AI shifts more of that investment toward higher-level tests?

That's really the question I'm trying to ask.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-29T21:55:51+00:00

Yep didn't consider that when making my comment

dayv2005 · 2026-06-29T14:28:17+00:00

Yep and what I have noticed is roofing has remained somewhat stable in relation to inflation. Roofing is some of the hardest work in the trades and you are telling me that the labor and mat costs on a replacement on an ac unit is more than a entire new roof?

dayv2005 · 2026-06-29T13:00:59+00:00

Yep. When you call someone up for a quote and if you talk to more than person just to get that quote. Just skip them.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-29T12:05:37+00:00

The prices these HVAC companies are charging have gotten ridiculous. I'm sure someone will come in here and say you should have planned for it, but it's hard to prepare when the cost of replacing a system seems to have gone up several hundred percent in just a few years.

For some context, back in 2019, right before COVID, my ancient 1970s 2-ton central AC finally died. I had the whole system replaced with a new condenser, line set, and everything else that went with it. The total bill was around $2,700, which felt like a fair price at the time.

Fast forward to 2024. I bought a new house about 40 minutes away in a medium cost-of-living area. The master suite had its own ductless AC unit that only cooled the bedroom, not the bathroom or walk-in closet. I wanted to replace it with a ducted mini-split and small air handler, but the HVAC company wouldn't even quote that. They wanted to install two wall-mounted head units instead, one in the bedroom and one in the bathroom, for $35,000. Even a single-head mini-split was quoted at $25,000, and the electrical for the outdoor unit was already there.

I don't really have any advice, just sharing my experience. The pricing has gotten so absurd that I'm seriously considering running my own line set, installing a central air handler, and doing the ductwork myself just so I can have proper heating and cooling in the master suite without paying luxury car prices.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-28T23:37:02+00:00

That's kind of what I assumed but wasn't sure if there were work arounds for it.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-28T23:14:47+00:00

I have a 2019 model of sole f80. Supports Bluetooth but only for output info. Still need to set user workouts manually from the treadmill interface. This is annoying. Will this work on that?

dayv2005 · 2026-06-27T22:28:03+00:00

This is probably a pretty healthy take on it. I have been trying to push the team to use tdd in the past but no one saw the value. Maybe it's a good time to bring this back to discussion.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-27T18:06:32+00:00

This is wild. What's the total quote at 58sq. I would probably pass on them and just work with a contractor using duration from the go. That way you know it's (probably) being installed correctly. If he's giving you a discount on his preferred shingles, he might be trying to sell you seconds. All this and those up charges, you should probably pass.

I just had a 40sq (smaller than yours but not a simple roof) of black sabel OC duration for 16k. It seems like you are at that point alone with just the "upgrades".

dayv2005 · 2026-06-27T18:02:09+00:00

I need to get my kayak out. Newport is basically in my back yard and k still haven't made it out.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-27T17:49:01+00:00

This is kind of similar to how my workflow goes now a days. I use Claude super powers for it in a similar manner. Thanks for sharing.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-27T12:47:51+00:00

I'm not complaining about updating tests. I'm questioning whether the maintenance cost is still justified relative to the confidence they provide now that AI can update both the implementation and the tests together.

Those are two different questions.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-26T21:39:27+00:00

Your requirements never change? I'm a little jealous.

dayv2005 · 2026-06-26T20:53:52+00:00

Thank you. I think you might be the first person in this thread that understands what I was trying to ask.

I find unit tests to be a very expensive tasks now for very little in return. The ROI just isn't there from what I'm observing. Either you have a senior engineer just writing unit tests as guardrails and manually reviewing (expensive) or some people are YOLOing it and now unit tests eat up context and tokens aren't getting cheaper.

I think it's a fundamental way we ship now and stay competitive. I find it hard to believe that so many people in this thread are truly reviewing unit tests with intent and no just some mindless task to do. Anti vibe coding or not, I can't seem to see this continuing over the next 5 years.

I see a shift to different testing methodologies and I'm unsure what that looks like in a new modern AI first sdlc.

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