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@Kristinartz Starting handle / crank

What is something in an old car most people would not recognize today?

@Priyansh_31Dec Coding was always a trivial skill in its own right.

Peak delusion. People who can’t code, think they’re now as good as people who can code, because apparently AI tools can code very well now.

@FriendlyWebGuy Definitely would become an attack target, like centralized password vaults are, would need serious security. Ah a thought maybe able to leverage and existing ultra secure service and just bolt the WP integration simply so thus handing the security trust to another trusted party.

@alanefuller Yes there is that. A micro saas that freelancers / agencies could run on their clients behalf could centralise the risk, or let someone else figure out the solution. Pre paid only and low alert limits for the win.

WordPress 7.0 combined with plugin vulnerabilities = free AI tokens. There will be an absolute rush by hackers to steal API keys.

@AlexStandiford What do you mean. Pool filled 😉

What I'd give for a rain-free weekend! I guess it'll be less-painful when the kids are out of school, but geez.

@AceRockol @ljnarnia @raven_brah And inflation for someone that lived through the 70. Probably the only era when a car sold for more secondhand 2 months after being sold new.

@ljnarnia @raven_brah I love when they explain that “you guys have never seen interest rates this high” to someone who lived through the early 80’s.

Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

@CozyVaporwave @raven_brah In the 70 we never ate out really. My dad was a physicist and my mother a teacher. We were definitely relatively well off, had a car and could go on camping holidays in Europe.

This discourse always breaks down to the difference between blue collar and white collar life How many people on the "we never ate out" spectrum were college educated professionals? That's where the disconnect is, of course we didn't expect that a janitor with a HS education (or less) working in the 1970s/1980s ate out for every meal. But I don't think that we should be comparing what was normal for low-end, low-potential boomers with what should be normal for high-end, high-potential Zoomers

@raven_brah No you got that wrong. Eating out was a once a year birthday treat. Take-aways hardly existed except fish and chips.

@lembitopik Because they worked out it is best to sleep during the hotest part of the day, but we Brits have been bought up to think sleeping during the day is only for the lazy or sick.

If 30 Celsius in UK needs a “Red Heat Alert,” why hasn’t everyone in Spain left or suffered health problems?

@bomtafriski @_mahmiss In 2026 baths only get used for washing the dog. Showers are the thing. Any house that has been modernized in the last 20/30 years has at least 2 toilet/bath or shower units.

@_mahmiss They don't like bathing so why the need for many bathrooms

What’s with UK houses and 1 bathroom?? You’ll see a 3 bed house with 1 bathroom, why???

@_mahmiss Hey it hasn't been long since we had no bathrooms, my grandparents we had a Tin bath in the kitchen with a plank of wood over as a work surface, once a week take the wood off, boil lots of kettles and then one by one bath in the same water. Luxury.

@icanvardar You are not in the right circles.

i’ve never seen someone switch from codex to claude code it’s always the other way around

@jasondoesstuff It's a terminal, how can that be crappy, it is meant to be basic, what are your expectations?

But like... You guys don't ENJOY using Claude Code in the Terminal right? You can be honest it's a crappy experience 😂.

@stevehunsaker1 Double the prices, sales drop by 35%, more profit, less work. Why don't more people do this?

99% of the home service agency market is propped up by owners having no idea what their numbers are. You’re doing $30,000 a month in sales, you can’t afford a $1500 a month agency They think more sales will solve the problem but more sales doesn’t fix horrendous pricing/margins

@Inglehoff @Jbm_dev So let's assume you know me and trust me and I send you an email saying "Hey I just started using xyz, and actually it's really good not only does it do twice ABC but saves me dosh, bet you can't guess what it is' - would you engage with that email?

@Jbm_dev I feel the same way. Why would I try and sell a product if I would never buy it being sold to me in this way…

have you ever bought something from a cold email? I haven’t, which makes the strategy feel a bit insane

@Jbm_dev The only people making money out of cold emails are those selling the 'systems' that promise that their cold emails will work.

@Jbm_dev Think the worst thing about AI has been the increase of 'intelligent' cold emails, where AI attempts to customise the outreach, and these get through spam filters, so now I'm manually having to hit spam/block so much more often. ⤵️

@FriendlyWebGuy Yeh but, if I created the proxy as a service, I would have to be the trusted store of true keys, and whilst you may trust me, and 3 other people, that doesn't make a great product...

@alanefuller In simple terms it would be a wrapper / proxy / middleware in front of the provider which adds the protections. Make it and then sell it on, keep the exit plan in mind.

@AlexStandiford This.. I have added an extra stage, where AI writes me a non technical brief, that I actually can read, brief includes decisions and questions, we answer question together and then when the brief is agreed it writes an executive summary which I read & agree. No code, no filenames

This is a big talking point in my upcoming course. You need to marinate in the problem before AI writes a single line of code. Thankfully, AI is actually very good at navigating that with you beforehand. Most people don’t do nearly enough when working with AI to decide what to write.