This is absolutely vile. The xAi merger made no sense and this is forcing working class people into purchasing risky assets from a known scammer.

It does when you look at it with a few less zeros… it’s like a broke person floating checks for payday loans.

This is claude writing code for itself. It talks like this to itself when you ask it to make prompts.

Seriously, this just seems to reward poor behavior on Anthropic's part.

Right, fair, but look at the prompt. For the purpose of testing general intelligence, this seems kind of pointless.

The Windows code signing experience has prevented me from shipping apps that otherwise run perfectly fine on the platform. It is a nightmare and I cannot believe it wasn't called out in the "We want to fix Windows" blog post.

Just do exactly what Apple does. Charge me $100 directly from you and let me build an .exe that I can distribute on my website.

This isn't well-known, so I figured I'd mention it.

Microsoft offers a service called Azure Artifact Signing (used to be called Trusted Signing) that manages code signing for you:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/artifact-s...

It's $9.99/mo, and you don't need to worry about procuring or renewing code signing certs.

US and Canada residents only, sadly.

See my sibling reply[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507201

Nice. I hope it eventually hits Japan.

Except this requires you to own a business for 3+ years, which makes it a non-starter for indie apps.

Not anymore: Artifact Signing is now generally available (GA), to anyone with an Azure account in the US, Europe, or the UK[1].

[1]: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-security-...

There's really no need to be "early" for something like this. I've seen coworkers who've never used agentic coding pick it up and know everything that need to in ~2 days. The people who really dive in and are running orchestrated agents overnight are in general not building much of real value.

They rebuilt half of their company around this thing and countless people saw promotions all around.

Seems like they’d want to wait to commit until after the layoffs, right?

I work in the space. This article would not have been published if the team responsible was on the chopping block

It's just one team with like 4 people. They can layoff a lot of staff from Metaverse.

Couldn’t their excellent model and coding experience generate another excellent coding CLI tool?

While I despise this administration, as a celiac I’m very hopeful for any cultural shift away from grains. People truly do not realize how often they will reach for some processed bread for nearly every single meal.