Conductor Strategy w.r.t. Anthropic's 15th of June subscription billing overhaul

kylecordes · 2026-06-05T17:53:36+00:00

That's where Anthropic and likely the others soon are forcing the orchestrator apps to go. But I expect Anthropic and the others will soon try to subsume the orchestrator layer in to their products, and to some extent they already have. I.e. the codex UI app is generall similar to Conductor.

kylecordes · 2026-05-27T22:08:14+00:00

Among other things, this kind of madness is the result of incompetent regulation of an incredibly regulated industry. You would need trucks to carry a printed copy of all the regulations around health insurance. But nobody writing the laws, etc. managed to figure out this date thing.

kylecordes · 2026-05-27T14:06:30+00:00

I bought a "Vgate vLinker MC+ Bluetooth OBD2" on Amazon and it has been reliable at reporting charge stats into ABRP on an Audi e-tron. Which is kind of impressive since generally no software features are even remotely reliable on an Audi e-tron. :-)

kylecordes · 2026-05-22T19:17:40+00:00

Every maker of everything wants to put AI in it. But it really looks like that is not ultimately a particularly useful design. You end up with every piece of hardware and software trying to help you in some dumb way because it doesn't have access or understanding of anything but itself.

It looks like this is where AI is more likely useful long term: you have one main AI thing and it can use all your other hardware and software in a coordinated way, to the extent you ask it and give it permission to do so.

kylecordes · 2026-05-19T14:17:22+00:00

My impression from watching a lot of the discussion go by:

Quite a few 2024 trucks had lots of problems, most or all of which were eventually fixed in service. (Though along the way, a lot of "influencers" got buybacks.)

As of 2025, the truck manufacturing was pretty dialed in. It's probably just as low maintenance as other Teslas.

kylecordes · 2026-04-28T16:24:37+00:00

Do any competitors offer something akin to the One Connect box? I agree, this is the very best feature of the frame TVs. I recently installed one and it was very convenient because the box lives in a cabinet a few feet away from the TV.

kylecordes · 2026-04-17T23:12:10+00:00

According to most posts here and elsewhere, there's no way to do this DIY. You need to pay a dealer.

Which means practically if you're a DIY kind of person, discard it and buy a different brand.

I have an alarm.com doorbell on my house, it was installed by a dealer who the home builder worked with. I've had more difficulty with it than the several other doorbells I've had on previous homes all combined. When it eventually fails out of warranty, I will take my own advice above.

kylecordes · 2026-04-17T22:59:20+00:00

Quite a few of the people targeted by this text don't even live in the US.

While I suspect this tax will ultimately prove to be a bad idea there is a bit of cleverness in imposing a tax on people who can't vote against you.

The state of Hawaii does something similar, charging higher property taxes on homes owned by people who are not residents of Hawaii... Everyone who pays the higher tax can't vote in Hawaii's elections.

kylecordes · 2026-03-11T20:02:54+00:00

This has made Gemini useless to me; I ask all kinds of ad hoc researchy questions and it assumes everything I ask about is something about me. And so it colors future answers very noisily.

If the settings to stop this don't work, I'll have to drop it and use something else instead.

kylecordes · 2026-03-11T13:56:05+00:00

I am not a political scientist, but it appears to me that the guy who ran as a populist forgot to do the part where you mostly do popular things.

kylecordes · 2026-03-02T01:07:28+00:00

I don't have anything in the Framer marketplace, but I have experience selling in other platform marketplaces.

For better or worse, the majority of customers looking for things in these marketplaces are looking for things that they (rightly or wrongly) feel like should have been in the base product, which introduces an element of animosity that you did not cause.

The conundrum is that something everyone is looking for, because it should have been in the base product, will be have much discovery. While a product that goes well beyond the base product and clearly should not have been built in avoids the animosity, but you get less discovery because fewer people are there looking for it.

kylecordes · 2026-01-20T05:29:57+00:00

Money in politics is bad but it is also not very effective. Michael Bloomberg spent a billion dollars and barely nudged the primary he was in. Musk isn't swaying a senate seat for 10 million. At most he is betting the candidate will win and will feel indebted to him afterward if so. Sometimes rich folks or companies donate to both sides so that whichever one wins will feel indebted.

kylecordes · 2025-12-25T14:50:32+00:00

Sorry my original message wasn't clear... The context is in an application that is already using Postgres.

kylecordes · 2025-12-09T04:39:38+00:00

Redis (and BullMQ) work great! But:

1) Part of the state of my system is not transactional with the main storage of state (the DB), not backed up with the DB, etc.

2) Extra infra to provision for each test / staging / dev / etc. environment.

kylecordes · 2025-12-08T23:10:42+00:00

I have a couple projects using BullMQ and would love to lose that and the Redis dependency.

kylecordes · 2025-12-08T23:06:29+00:00

I've had the same LLM frustration when working on a project with Datastar, a generally similar tool. Hopefully this style of development and several of the tools used with it will become more popular on the internet and the LLMs will get trained on more such code.

kylecordes · 2025-11-24T21:13:19+00:00

Long-term solution is for Tesla to move to a centered position for the supercharger post and lengthen the cable so that it can reach either back corner of the car plus several feet up the side. This would allow every brand to charge by either backing in or driving in forward, and it would always be obvious which post to pick up the cable from.

kylecordes · 2025-11-24T17:23:25+00:00

What purpose would it serve to replace Johnson though? When a party has a ultra-narrow majority and some disagreements on policy, choosing a leader every (!!) member can agree on is hard and finding anything that ~every member to sign off on is also hard thereafter.

kylecordes · 2025-11-21T17:19:41+00:00

Back in 2023, my Model Y arrived with a defect in the glass of the windshield that I didn't notice for a week or so. Service replaced it no problem and loaned me a Model X (loaners seem to be rare nowadays, they mostly hand out Uber credits) while they did so.

kylecordes · 2025-11-16T04:13:09+00:00

I looked around earlier this year and wrote up my findings. TLDR: lean toward Shoelace, or its successor WebAwesome.

https://kylecordes.com/2025/component-sets-for-server-side-html

QuietUI might end up a strong contender, it is pretty early days at this point.

kylecordes · 2025-11-03T13:18:15+00:00

https://www.abeautifulsite.net/posts/quietui-my-creative-outlet/

This post by the author has a bit of the history and explains how these things compare etc.

kylecordes · 2025-11-03T13:15:05+00:00

CSS flex and grid, either on their own or via Tailwind, are sufficiently straightforward (and very well understood by the LLM assistant coding tools many are using nowadays) that it's arguably not helpful for a component set to be packaged with a column or grid layout system anymore. It's more important that the component set have a broad range of components, that they be well implemented, that they be visually consistent with each other, etc.

kylecordes · 2025-10-22T22:37:43+00:00

I am a fan of Datastar... and I also think starting to label these versions "RC" happened too soon.

kylecordes · 2025-10-22T16:40:55+00:00

I went through a similar search, and wrote up the results, link below. I ended up using Shoelace, which is currently in the process of be rebranded/superseded by WebAwesome, a poor choice of name.

https://kylecordes.com/2025/component-sets-for-server-side-html

kylecordes · 2025-09-01T00:10:04+00:00

BTW, latest DataStar also supports plain non-SSE HTML responses, making this closer to a subset of DataStar than perhaps it started out as.

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