is that a bundle, or are you rally paying like $0.50 a month for a VPS?

will someone please think of the retention numbers

a measure that will actually help protecting kids? Not on their watch

ha, even if it was true - which isn’t - that would never hurt the stock, the stock market is soulless

Right. But that was from a time where it was your friends and family who had your number, so having to change it was a major hassle not only for you. With it being asked by so many services, that’s eventually ending up in the dark web.

Many people don’t call anymore. A similar group blocks all calls from unknown numbers due to constant robocalls. So a phone number today is just another data point to fingerprint someone. Its usefulness turned into an artificially created need by services that want a cheap way to tell real users from robots.

yeah, phone numbers have been used primarily to fight spam and fake accounts, so my guess is that this practice will become even more common with stricter policies around phone number registration. I hate it.

This basically turns phone numbers into a deregulated government ID number. You’d think they had learned something with SSNs by now.

Some taxi companies use third-party Uber-like apps to connect to riders, the bigger ones might have their own apps, but my guess is that those also ask for a phone number.

The best way might just be hailing one off the street.

afaict they just run the LSP automatically when the agent uses the file edit tool, passing errors/warnings as a response of the tool. Maybe they run it before and after to get only the warnings introduced after the change, maybe they filter by the lines changed, I’m not sure.

I’m not even sure it does work. Prime only tried trivial packages, but based on my experience with agentic coding, I’m not convinced they’re able to deliver a fully functional package of medium size while being truly clean room.

Also, there’s an anecdotal comment on youtube of someone who tried this (on a small package) and they mention the clean room was violated (the AI added implementation instructions to the documentation), had performance issues, and the best part, the generated code had an MIT license. Now I wish Prime had looked at the LICENSE files created.

it ends when whoever buys their services realizes they’re spending more with duct tape around generated code than just by using an open source library and giving credit

Ok, let’s think this through. Whoever “hires” them ends with a legally questionable codebase to say the least, that has worst architecture and performance than its open source counterpart, while also being unmaintainable and likely costing more to fix than building something the right way in the first place.

So they’re taking money from people trying to do this shit? Great.

It’s satirical

60% of the time it works every time

The ones paying attention and on a budget would still use them. “The best” of anything is usually not cost effective.

Even before reducing the prices, they were already 2 to 3 times cheaper than equivalent alternatives from Anthropic’s ($3in, $15out) and OpenAI’s ($1.75in, $14out) at $1.74in and $3.48out. Now they’re around 10x cheaper.

Edit: Deepseek V4 Flash is the leading model on OpenRouter

so much for no one buying it

If you use it for Q&A, that’s a lot of tokens. If you use it to write software somewhat autonomously, it’s easy to go through a million tokens every few hours. Do that every day and you’ll be paying over $100 a month at that rate.

Not really, there are ways to count tokens before running an inference. Some providers make tokenizers public, so they even work offline. APIs also usually return rolling costs per response and have budget limits - though some could have more fine-grained limits.

Users who are surprised by the bill are usually not paying attention to each call, or using autonomous subagents, or a setup where they have little or no control to what is sent to the provider.

So the problem isn’t really the API provider, as much as it’s the tooling around it, which makes it too easy to overspend.

“If” heh

I wouldn’t trust any ISP to not be tracking users

“don’t lock your door, it does not prevent scammers from getting your home address”

???

yeah, we know deleting cookies doesn’t prevent IP tracking, that’s also why I use a VPN

something is wrong with my instance, I’m not getting any ads here

not only a giant pool, but it’s in a batcave and it looks like an album cover