Alan Barber 🦬 🎟️ 🪂

Software Developer, Computer Scientist, Scrum Master, & Crohn's Disease Fighter | Smalltime crypto investor $DCR $BAT | WARNING: These tweets will self destruct

[Alan Barber 🦬 🎟️ 🪂 @AlanBarber]

@kentcdodds more like something to entertain you for the next 30 days when you burned up your token quota on the first day of the month. 😜

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@Mainasarahamza @quirked_up_anzu They ret-coned it some comics... nice and safe in a little force field egg

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It seems there is very large disconnect forming between what AI models cost to run and what users are willing to spend.

When I can end up paying upwards of $5-25 for a single prompt and not even get a correct response that's unacceptable.

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4 small feature requests with my Squad using Github Copilot. burned up almost all my tokens in about an hour... 🤯

Based upon this, I would assume a $20+/hour burn rate to keep using Squad, which is not sustainable for side projects that don't earn profit.

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@mitchelsellers @github I haven't touched my copilot today but I'm about to go sit down and try run a heavy Squad session. I fully expect to burn up my tokens in a flash. 🤑

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ok here's where AI drives me batty! My team of agents are capable of building an entire e2e test in playwright of some deep app functionality, but I just realized it couldn't manage to properly wire up the login page correctly and any password was treated as valid! WTF 🤦

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[Alan Barber 🦬 🎟️ 🪂 @AlanBarber]

@mkristensen while I disagree with the tone, they aren't wrong in the feeling of frustration with what is branded a premium dev tool and expensive product we paid for is always several steps behind the free vs code in this feature area.

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@chrispfarrell yeah that's my worry. Microcenter has a couple Intel Arc Pro B70 (32gb) gpus in stock for $1000 right now. Supposed to be pretty good for AI and I'm kind of temped to bite the bullet and get one.

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Pricing out the cost for a potential dedicated AI LLM server. The biggest hangup right now is there seems to be very little info out there on real world performance /usability of different GPUs.

To be clear I've seen lots of benchmarks but I'd love to see some actual devs report

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Also, I ran into GitHub Copilot daily quota in the middle of a great coding run with my squad... really annoying!

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Boy am I POed. the domain name I wanted was magically bought yesterday after I checked to see if it was free.

Interestingly both the .com and
.dev were taken. I didn't even look for the .dev so some algorithm must have decided I might try that as a fallback.

So I went with .io

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@lovelacecoding Personally, $10 for a Copilot Pro sub for my side projects and goofing off.

I do have Windsurf sub paid by work, not sure how much I'm racking up in overages but no one's complaining yet 🤣

Starting to look at running local LLMs but i need some hardware upgrades first.

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@MorePhorUs @DataChaz of course! I've just started dabbling with squad but I really like the concept and the workflow. currently i'm just working with my "team" building out tons of documentation tonight.

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Using Squad to setup a full team to start building my latest side-hustle. funny how I feel like I'm in a chat with another human as I have my virtual tech lead iterate over our planning docs so we can prepare to spin up a sprint.

https://t.co/Ih0F5MDWBc

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Incase you were wondering, I went nerdy and setup my virtual team from Halt and Catch Fire...

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@KarenPayneMVP Pretty clean at the moment... Just a couple

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then we discussed pros and cons of using Blazor for the front-end and i sent it off to update the docs again to take that into account.

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My tech lead assumed we would be deploying to azure so much of the initial architecture / infrastructure planning was around that. had to correct it that we would be self hosting with containers on a Linux server and it spent almost 10 minutes rewriting the all the docs