I’ve been keeping my phone on silent for years and only allowing specific favorite contacts through. It’s been absolutely liberating. No notifications demanding my attention. I’ll interact with my phone on MY terms.

Perhaps, but at least I’m not being charged for each attempt at doing work besides my time in the attempt. Copilot would bug out and that cost me usage credits. Borderline stealing from its users paying for limited credits per month.

It’s too bad their models are also all garbage, or I’d be on that Google AI train. They’re desperately trying to stay relevant in a space they should be owning in the first place. You plant shit seeds, you get shit weeds. Even if the models were good, their track record shows it’s not worth the time investment adopting their stack because chances are it ends up in the infamous graveyard within 3-5 years.

Yup, same. x57 for GPT 5.5 now?! The GitHub agent architecture was hot as hell and allowed me to work on projects without ever bootstrapping it locally, but there is no way I’m gonna get sucked into spending hundreds a month. It felt good seeing that $250 refund come through for my yearly plan. I’ll take those funds to Claude or Codex directly. Throttled usage is way better than being fucked over by a glorified reseller.

That K shaped economy in action

You’ll get down voted to eternity for speaking truth like that friend. Be cautious, a lot of these kids just don’t want to hear it.

And yeah, Google is trying so hard but failing miserably. I’m excited to try Opus 4.8 with my work account 🙈

“We already have horses, we don’t need cars” … this is how THEY sound.

I’m going to NY next week and really appreciate the reminder to go eat at Katz again. 🤤

Planned obsolescence at play here 😢 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

The luxuries that come from anything with a battery are great, but everything running a lithium-ion battery has its days numbered, and that’s really unfortunate for the consumer and absolutely stellar for the business.