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I'm not sure how related this is, but I feel like it is.

I received a couple of emails for Ruby on Rails position, so I ignored the emails.

Yesterday out of nowhere I received a call from an HR, we discussed a few standard things but they didn't had the specific information about company or the budget. They told me to respond back to email.

Something didn't feel right, so I asked after gathering courage "Are you an AI agent?", and the answer was yes.

Now I wasn't looking for a job, but I would imagine, most people would not notice it. It was so realistic. Surely, there needs to be some guardrails.

Edit: Typo


I had a similar experience with Lexus car scheduling. They routed me to an AI that speaks in natural language (and a female voice). Something was off and I had a feeling it was AI, but it would speak with personality, ums, typing noise, and so on.

I gathered my courage at the end and asked if it's AI and it said yes, but I have no real way of verification. For all I know, it's a human that went along with the joke!


Haha! For me it was quite obvious once it admitted because we kept talking and their behaviour stayed the same. It could see that AI's character was pretty flat, good enough for v1.

Wait, you were _talking_ to an HR AI agent?

Correct. They sounded like human. The pacing was natural, it was real time, no lag. It felt human for the most part. There was even a background noise, which made it feel authentic.

EDIT: I'm almost tempted to go back and respond to that email now. Just out of curiosity, to see how soon I'll see a human.


Truly bizarre. Thanks for sharing.

As a general rule I always do these talks with camera on; more reason to start doing it now if you're not. But I'm sure even that will eventually (sooner rather than later) be spoofed by AI as well.

What an awful time.


It's equally possible that it's phishing of some sort instead of genuine recruiting, so do be careful

I am thinking identity theft. They make you talk, record you so they can speak again with your voice.

I only answer by phone to numbers in my contact nowadays, unless I know I have something scheduled with someone but do not yet know the exact number that will call me.


Did it sound like a bot from eleven labs?

I've not seen the bot from eleven labs. Where can I see it in action?

wtf you're joking, right?

Not at all. It was hard to believe.

I've been working on a Thai language learning application(https://thaicopilot.com/) for months now, so I would love to get some feedback from the community. I plan to expand to other languages, but the thought process for now is to get it right for one language and scale up the repeatable efforts for all the others.

If you want to see a video of the app without sign up https://thaicopilot.com/how-it-works


Is anyone noticing reduced token consumption with Opus 4.6? This could be a release thing, but it would be interesting to observe see how it pans out once the hype cools off.

They are also giving away $50 extra pay as you go credit to try Opus 4.6. I just claimed it from the web usage page[1]. Are they anticipating higher token usage for the model or just want to promote the usage?

[1] https://claude.ai/settings/usage


"Page not found" for me. I assume this is for currently paying accounts only or something (my subscription hasn't been active for a while), which is fair.

Yes, I'm on a paid subscription.

Based on email from Antrhopic, I’ve expected to get this automatically. I’ve met their conditions. Searching this thread for “50” got me to your comment and link worked. Thanks HN friend!

Haha! Glad it was helpful. Yes, I keep an eye on that page, so I was quick to notice.

My Claude instance informs me of this. There's a banner up the top telling me to invoke "/extra-usage".

When I do so, it tells me it's an unknown skill, and keeps going with the usual "let me know if I can help you with anything else" spiel.


Damn this is awesome. I have some heavy PRs to crunch through.

Thanks for the tip!

Glad that it was helpful. Thanks

So thats 2M tokens for free basically?

I'm building ThaiCopilot.com, it's a language learning application that I'm building, as language barrier was one of the biggest problem I faced as an expat in Thailand.


Getting close to my last day at my current job, and I couldn't be more excited to build in public.

When I moved to Thailand last year, the language barrier hit me immediately. So I’m scratching my own itch and building https://thaicopilot.com/, It's designed to help you learn Thai in real situations. Still early, but moving fast.


> I guess the main lesson is that the ups and downs are normal, and you get better at riding them over the years.

Any advice for someone who's just planning to start their own indie journey?


It would be easier to do it with a runway or do it along with a full-time job so you don't have to worry about money at the start


> It brings me such joy to see such a writeup in a world where humility is perceived as weakness.

I think the trend will shift in the opposite direction with advancement of all the genAI tools.

On a personal level, my reading time has reduced. Unless I know/respect the author, I don't bother reading genAI slop.


Let us be happy about this without the doom and gloom about the future creeping in!


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SEEKING WORK

Location: New Delhi, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Serverless, AWS Services, React.js

Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/RahulsResume2024

Email: rahulroy@outlook.com

I have over 9 years of startup experience. Ruby on Rails has been the primary stack. Open to work on any stack. Immediate availability.


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