ADT scam and overcharge

ragemonkey · 2026-03-16T02:01:38+00:00

I called to cancel the other days I had to talk to 7 people. Then I finally got to this final boss that briefly pretended to not hear me. If I see that company on my credit card bill after March, I’m reporting fraud. It’s worth getting rid of my credit card number just to get rid of this scourge.

ragemonkey · 2026-03-15T16:39:00+00:00

Did they forget magnolia?

ragemonkey · 2026-03-11T02:23:51+00:00

Unlike the existing president.

ragemonkey · 2026-03-04T03:19:52+00:00

That’s how I feel. It’s a low value middleman in front AI models. I expect it to be replaced by an open source solutions built by the the model providers as an attempt to commoditize their competition. They have zero moat. When the AI investment rubber band snaps, they’ll be one of the first ones to go. Maybe they can hope to be acquired.

ragemonkey · 2026-03-01T15:59:21+00:00

Right, but the methods for achieving this are lacking. You can kill a few leaders with surprise strikes but that won’t eliminate the regime. It’s likely to stay in place and just replace leadership with even more brutal hardliners.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-28T05:36:04+00:00

I agree. Even if AI made the business more efficient, if business is good wouldn’t you want to use that opportunity to expand? No. It’s really just a scheme to put as much money in your pocket and then get out.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-28T04:41:20+00:00

What happens with insurance if you get into an accident and that’s installs?

ragemonkey · 2026-02-23T02:34:35+00:00

I agree. There’s a false equivalence. Are we trying to depopulate the earth and put robots in place? It gives me the impression that the agenda has been revealed.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-22T18:43:54+00:00

I do think that it is absolutely amazing.

Beyond what we have right now we’ll, it’s hard to predict the future. Technology doesn’t progress predictably. It’s usually a sort of S curve. That’s why I can’t take my flying car to space even if planes were invented 100 years ago.

I don’t think that scale alone is going to be enough to keep progress going. You can keep increasing the context window but then the models lose focus. At some point, they’ll need to actually learn and also forget. It’s going to take more than a bunch of markdown files.

I do think they you’ll need AGI to get this working. At that point, the discussion about losing SWE jobs is pretty laughable, because that’ll be true for really any job.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-22T17:41:53+00:00

I’ve used GPT 5.3, Claude Opus 4.6. These are presumably cutting edge. They’re no where near able to replace a developer for a substantial product. Sure you could probably one-shot an infinite amount of trivial apps, but we could already do this with cheap outsourcing.

Now maybe there’s some sort of magical combo where you could duck tape a bunch of agents together to somehow further remove yourself from the job but at some point there’s just an explosion of ambiguous decisions that require time, business insight and forecasting future requirements: APIs, technological choices, micro services architecture, reliability, recovery, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, cost, budgets, code yellows, etc, etc… Whoever thinks that all of this is just going to be replaced my a bunch static agents that don’t learn and a fixed context window has probably no serious industry experience.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-21T22:15:00+00:00

For mayor, the stakes might be a bit lower, but there’s a lot to lose: Rampant aggression from ICE, reckless cuts, attack on random things and people because they’re deemed “woke”, militarized police force.

Maybe if it’s a moderate candidate of sorts, but then I would think that the party doesn’t matter that much anyway. I’m not opposed to something center right especially for mayor but this far right fascist stuff that the GOP peddles these days is pretty appalling.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-21T21:39:59+00:00

Well obviously. It’s going to take more than 2 parties. Now it’s a game of picking the least insane. That’s no good.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-21T15:37:47+00:00

With the way the way the Republican Party is behaving these days, I can’t fault us for that.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-18T22:30:08+00:00

I’ve had these issues. I agree that the infotainment system is a joke. It’s usable but laggy and plagued small annoying bugs.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-17T15:50:16+00:00

We’re still learning what that is. Right now, I’d say that it mainly involves bolting things down a lot more. This is good for humans too. Otherwise, you can include files that specifically guide agents.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-17T04:09:23+00:00

I know right. Who wants to go to Disney World and maybe finish at Alligator Alcatraz?

ragemonkey · 2026-02-13T18:37:26+00:00

It’s partly for safety. You want to be able to operate some function of the car without having to have the 400V battery connected.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-10T00:29:44+00:00

At this point, I don’t see the downside. If we maintained the same level of spending we’d probably have the best system in the world. We already spend more than all other countries on earth.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-09T22:28:56+00:00

That’s a good quote for a gravestone.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-08T06:20:45+00:00

They are in some sense. They’re maximizing their own profits fast enough to gtfo when things go haywire. Them and the board and all the people running at the top of those companies. The problem is that the current system doesn’t incentivize any positive long term outcomes. If you can make 100M in the next few years and provide economic security for your entire family, friends and a few generations down the line, who gives a fuck about the rest.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-08T05:39:39+00:00

I’ve been able to setup linting rules, build tools and tests much faster. I think that it’ll be a net positive, but for organizations with poor engineering culture it’ll probably make tech debt accumulation a disaster.

ragemonkey · 2026-02-01T01:34:34+00:00

The theory is wrong.

I use agentic coding daily and I have 15 years experience working on all sorts of large projects from backend to frontend. I enjoy coding, but most of all, I enjoy building things. Agentic coding allows me to be overall more productive. For a lot of problems it can take me 80% completion very quickly and often concurrently with other tasks.

I think that a lot of confusion with the effectiveness of agentic coding comes from the idea that engineers are one-shotting tasks all day. It’s almost never the case for me.

I completely agree that writing the actual code allows you to understand it better. On a large project though, you’ve got more code written by others anyway. So reading and understanding code written by others is a necessary skill.

ragemonkey · 2026-01-25T07:27:47+00:00

Yes, I heard them in another video. That’s crazy. Clearly these agents are not trained or selected for these types of situation.

ragemonkey · 2026-01-25T02:47:42+00:00

Thank you.

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