I have a family license and am more or less stuck with it, but for my business I will be moving things over to gsuite so I can be price gouged by them instead. It will cost more, but I’ll have Gemini, which is actually useful.

The last straw, aside from the price increases, was switching my office.com landing page to copilot. It feels like a new low, even for Microsoft.

You just lost $6/mo., Microsoft. I hope it was worth it.

What led you to that conclusion?

Zod's validation errors are awful, the json schema it generates for LLM is ugly and and often confusing, the types structures Zod creates are often unintelligible in the and there's even no good way to pretty print a schema when you're debugging. Things are even worse if you're stuck with zod/v3

None of this makes a lot of sense. Validation errors are largely irrelevant for LLMs and they can understand them just fine. The type structure looks good for LLMs. You can definitely pretty print a schema at runtime.

This all seems pretty uninformed.

What's wrong with Zod validation errors?

And what makes this different? What makes it LLM-native?

It generates schemas that are strict by default while Zod requires you to set everything manually.

This is actually discussed in the linked article (READ ME file).

That's not true based on zod docs. https://zod.dev/api?id=objects

most of the claims you're making against zod is inaccurate. the readme feels like false claims by ai.

It seems to be true to me. And aside from the API stuff (because I am far from an expert user of Zod) all of this has been carefully verified.

The BNSF people I’ve talked to have all told me about how much they’ve loved their jobs and what their jobs allowed them to do, including adopting children from Ukraine and get them out of a war zone. Maybe you should talk to more people.

The people to blame for the predicament of the US auto industry are the.. US auto industry.

Perhaps turning every vehicle into a luxury car and getting rid of affordable vehicles is not a good long term solution.

BYD is a fantastic investment, they are not undermining us, we are undermining ourselves and we need to stop being victims.

The people I know from BNSF will tell you that name stands for Better Not Start a Family.

I’ve worked with and known former engineers who left, took lower paying jobs in other industries and not one has ever said I miss it there.

Let’s not even get started on what that industry has evolved into with precision scheduled railroading and the dramatic increase in risk and real derailments that have followed.

> BYD is a fantastic investment, they are not undermining us

My point is that Buffet spent his fortune earned in America, on undermining America and its allies. He has effectively given a strategic boost to the CCP and its past and future abuses.

> including adopting children from Ukraine and get them out of a war zone. Maybe you should talk to more people.

Is this AI?

> Is this AI?

Is this the new ad hominem?

Is your reply AI?

Very few billionaires earn their fortune just "in America". Buffet definitely didn't.I live outside the US and pay thousands of dollars a year to American companies for goods and services, as do many of my friends. The insular separationist view of the global economy is daft and short-sighted.

Based on what? It’s been great for me.

Switching costs are low, so if that happens we’ll just switch.

Which powers at be do you mean? I’m not following.

There seem to be a lot of posts that attempt to cast seemingly mundane things through an “ethical” lens and I often wonder what the authors of them must be like in real life.

You do not want to get cornered by them at a party talking about their pet peeve.

And a set of fundamentally sound investments, including Anthropic iirc.

This is painting a target around the arrow. AFAIK, they had so much money to throw around for a spray and pray, similar to VC firms

No it’s not. This is not a moral argument.

They made many investments that ended up having a positive ROI. Anthropic was one of them.

I’m literally about to hop on a cruise ship tomorrow and trying to figure out how to solve for this, so this is timely.

You could just relax and unplug

Slack is an unintuitive piece of junk, and yes I will die on this hill.

It is, but all the other ones I've had the misfortune of dealing with have been worse.

Including IRC.

A few years ago I worked at a company that actually used Telegram and Telegram Desktop. It was great. Available on mobile and desktop, all platforms, supports all the features we needed, new users get full history.

The best I've used, and I say this in all sincerity, is actually Facebook's work platform (but it's not a chat-first experience, obviously, and that's probably what made it better).