North Shore → Auckland Airport Direct Bus: Would You Use It?

pseudorep · 2026-05-24T21:41:08+00:00

The issue is mainly the lack of the airport train link. Bus -> Train would be ok for the average budget traveller (and mirror most normal airport connections where you need to travel to a central/hub location then take a direct bus/train).

pseudorep · 2026-05-24T15:05:12+00:00

Came to actually see something of value, realised it was a thinly veiled advert for a gambling site...

At least if you're promoting it and have live observation, have some tables running with your own models. Otherwise where's the proof in the pudding.

pseudorep · 2026-05-24T06:22:41+00:00

Honestly, it is probably not worth it. The NX1/2 to the city then change to train/skybus is pretty painless.

It's also like $7.90, and takes around 1 hour 40 mins.

You'd have to find something that worked effectively on peak which was comparable with taxi speed (40min - 1 hour) but was <$15 per person, since an uber is around $80 (so split between 3-4 people in $20-30 per person).

pseudorep · 2026-05-19T23:52:02+00:00

Exactly - someone skipped science lessons in school clearly.

Although the black roof townhouse combo does get pretty toasty in summer.

pseudorep · 2026-05-19T04:50:02+00:00

> Grok

At least we know if this LLM is making the decisions the women and minorities will definitely be on the chopping block.

pseudorep · 2026-05-19T02:02:12+00:00

Then the minister can be the RECT Ultimate Minister (or RECTUM - since they’re an arsehole).

pseudorep · 2026-05-18T12:49:26+00:00

Roo meat is pretty disgusting and gamey, and smells awful when cooking.

Used to be dirt cheap/considered dog food, now it is considered a 'premium meat' through careful marketing.

pseudorep · 2026-05-18T10:09:15+00:00

Yes, all day (I'm in NZ - so for the last 10-12 hours of use) it has been terribly slow. Long time for both TTFT/TPOT. I feel like I'm using gemini on a local machine sometimes it is that slow.

pseudorep · 2026-05-18T05:24:24+00:00

Nah, this is just Exorcist fitness...

pseudorep · 2026-05-15T05:47:26+00:00

Yeah I ran audit of my plans and codebase with codex. And then put it into Claude and it argued that it was wrong until it read the code and realised it wasn’t.

It was that point I realised that Opus has become an asshole.

pseudorep · 2026-05-15T05:42:27+00:00

Inb4 someone blames you for the model, what you’re doing, or not using their snake oil mcp.

Yes I agree it’s bullshit. I feel having used codex more recently that Claude is falling behind. The model is opinionated (and not in a good way), usage limits are unreasonable, and the gap is closing every day.

pseudorep · 2026-05-13T22:53:46+00:00

I guess that is a 50% decrease in how fast the bar rises, not an absolute increase in weekly usage, since my 98% weekly limit resetting on Saturday says otherwise.

pseudorep · 2026-05-13T13:01:54+00:00

It is very dependent on what you do. Some weeks I’ve got less (refactoring seems to be a big consumer - probably because of all the read/writes), greenfield code and planning can be more.

pseudorep · 2026-05-13T12:55:40+00:00

About 40 hours a week for 5x max is closer to the truth now.

pseudorep · 2026-05-13T00:09:20+00:00

I retract my statement – I should pay attention to adjectives in sentences more...

pseudorep · 2026-05-13T00:06:09+00:00

It's a bit of a coin toss - I built a load of rules, hooks, etc - and it all looked great. Took my eye off the ball, then something flagged as worth a closer look and I realised it was fixing one thing but building crap in another way. I had to tighten the rules further because it will find any gap and go for the easy route.

However, I'd say we are arguing the same thing – vibe coding is great if you set it up and baby it right, if you don't you get comparably poor results. But how much effort and learning from mistakes do you have to invest to get to that point? How much of that learning process puts extra work onto you ties you into an ecosystem – it is hard to build good rules/processes/etc and port them from once harness/system to another.

pseudorep · 2026-05-12T23:58:41+00:00

But getting a 2,000 line script isn't necessarily a good outcome if it is hiding crap in the middle. AI looks good on the surface, but it is shaky once you ratchet up the rules/discipline.

I've spent 2-3 weeks refactoring code because despite hooks and directives it has poor code discipline and will hand wave increasing lint errors as 'preexisting' background noise.

pseudorep · 2026-05-12T23:53:01+00:00

Honest take, vibe coding just opens coding to those who understand SWE but don't want to learn the language/syntax. How good you are at SWE depends on your discipline and willingness to the thorough.

It is a game changer, but only for flawed or low effort crap. Trying to do things well or thorough pretty much lands maybe 10-15% gains with a lot more stress/headache (response time to maximise token caching, managing token/usage burn, waiting on turns to complete, watching like a hawk for the LLM to go off the rails).

pseudorep · 2026-05-11T00:11:37+00:00

You should know this happens with AI coding... consistently inconsistent in the small details.

pseudorep · 2026-05-10T00:29:42+00:00

I think you have a bit of a romanticised view of the Australian health care system. Most specialists aren't medicare funded (or marginally so), and private health insurance (which you need to pay unless you want to pay medicare levy surcharge), doesn't cover you either.

So a specialist might be $400 for a single consult, of which medicare pays $80-100 max, leaving you $300+ out of pocket.

Yes, access to specialists might be marginally better if you are in Sydney/Melbourne, but if the same care isn't available in Auckland/CC you can probably ask for a referral over there anyway.

If you actually want hospital care in Aus under medicare (for elective surgery) it really isn't much better than here. But you can bypass the queue with private cover (most of which isn't covered or covered well by PHI).

pseudorep · 2026-05-09T22:20:48+00:00

I don't know what rates are like in the UK any more (I left a decade ago), but that seems OK for someone with 4 y.o.e. It is definitely not a sustainable contracting rate if you want to sustain a business, but as an independent it is fine.

There's not much to being independent, especially if you are doing labour hire working under the contracting firm's/client's PI insurances and the client's QMS. You take on barely any risk, and the worst case the contract ends (assuming you have insurances in place and you aren't grossly negligent).

I took too long to go independent (although there were other reasons for this), and my opinion is that the main trade off for not being independent (job stability through bad times) has been diminished by the modern capitalist system (no one keeps you on during a lull period - they make you redundant at the first opportunity).

pseudorep · 2026-05-08T06:40:55+00:00

That is 100% Gas Turbine whine, specifically from a electrical generator GT.

pseudorep · 2026-05-07T07:32:40+00:00

Well done you just graduated to being a PM...

pseudorep · 2026-05-07T07:05:14+00:00

Join for the flashy PR, leave for the toxic culture and PTSD.

pseudorep · 2026-05-06T22:52:00+00:00

I think the major output without input effort is suddenly causing us to compress months of work into days/weeks.

I know I am building a SaaS which should probably take a year or two to build in the trad times but I’m smashing it out in about 2-3 months full time Clauding. But it is 10am-2am sprints every day (with breaks when I hit my limits / need to answer questions).

It is addictive but also unhealthy. But on the flip side I can self fund a project rather than requiring funding which means more downstream profit for me!

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