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You’re Subsidizing Your Neighbor’s Delivery: The Hidden Cost of Dining In
When you walk into your favorite local restaurant and pay $15 for a sandwich, you might assume you’re paying a fair price for the food. But here’s an uncomfortable truth: if that same restaurant is on Uber Eats or DoorDash, you’re likely subsidizing the discounted prices and promotions offered to delivery app users. This isn’t…
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Cost vs. Accuracy of GitHub Copilot LLM Models
Model Overview with Pricing and Capabilities Plan Allowances Free Plan (Copilot Free) Paid Plans Accuracy Rankings Top Performers by Benchmark HumanEval (Code Generation) SWE-bench (Real-world Software Engineering) Model Selection Guide For Complex Reasoning For Visual Tasks Notes
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The End of the AI Gold Rush: Why Your Next Raise Might Come From an Unexpected Source
Over the years, I’ve lived through multiple waves of “revolutionary” technology: 4GL programming languages, “visual” programming languages, “agile” methodologies, SOA, various web frameworks, cloud computing, serverless, containerization, k8s, no code, and now “AI” coding. The Ruby ecosystem has had its share of “revolutionary” entrants, with Ruby on Rails and Chef being two that I’ve directly…