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Is there a transparent way to see credit used/remaining/topped up, and do you have any tips for how you can prompt the agent that might offer more effective use of credits?

The LLM chat taps out but I can't find a remaining balance on the fly.io dashboard to gauge how I'm using it. I _can_ see a total value of purchased top ups, but I'm not clear how much credit was included in the subscription.

It's very addictive (because it is awesome!) but I've topped up a couple of times now on a small project. The amount of work I can get out the agent per top-up does seem to be diminishing quite quickly, presumably as the context size increases.


This is incredible. It does seem quite expensive compared to Zed or Claude Code now it's on Pro. But neat enough I've burned through the $20 subscription credit despite being a bit of an AI sceptic. This seems to have a much better handle on UI design (unless I'm missing something with the other agents), but as a solo dev I'm becoming quite convinced. It's also got me to try out fly again.

I couldn't get Tidewave working but I must try again to see if Tidewave with Claude Code would offer this level of awesome.

ps. @fly - please let me buy more credit, I just get an error!


Thanks for the feedback! Send your fly email to chris@fly.io and I'll get things sorted out. We'll throw you some credits for the trouble :)


Hero.


A great project with awesome implications. Well deserved, and the fly.io team are very pragmatic.

This will be even more brilliant than it already is when fly.io can get some slick sidecar/multi-process stuff.

I ended up back with Postgres after my misconfigs left me a bit burned with S3 costs and data stuff. But I think a master VM backed by persistent storage on fly with read replicas as required is maybe the next step: I love the simplicity of SQLite.


I like modernc.org/sqlite[1] - a port of the C SQLite3 library to Go. No need for CGo, so straightforward to build and cross-compile.

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/modernc.org/sqlite


The headline is misleading. Mechanical CPR devices have been utilised for years in the UK. The major LUCAS clinical trial [1] was run in the UK.

The ‘first’ relates to the version used: LUCAS 3. This has no performance difference but adds ‘smart’ features via Bluetooth. This is also misleading, as the LUCAS 3 has been available in other services.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...


Yeah, "misleading" is generous here. It's flat out wrong. Perhaps this article was also written by a "robot".


Not only that, the article isn't about the robot carrying out anything. This is about the ambulances starting to carry this particular machine, not about the machine actually having been deployed.


I don't know anything about Bluetooth security but I'm assuming adding it to a lifesaving device isn't necessarily an improvement?


Ok, we've de-firsted the title above.


Yes, but it makes for new publications ! That's the important thing, right? Right?


There's faasd [https://github.com/openfaas/faasd] which is OpenFaaS without the Kubernetes overhead.


And alexellis is a pretty active maintainer.


It feels like SwiftUI, and other native tools, are embracing the advantages of some of these other cross platform tools: declarative, rapidly-iterable, abstracted.

I feel SwiftUI markedly lowers the 'barrier to entry'.

Crossplatform tools may serve your purpose better, but I think it's unfair to say that, at least for SwiftUI, native development may not be as 'joyful'. A list view in SwiftUi is List {}.


This sounds unreasonable, but it feels like a case where you don’t win either way.

Updating and changing rules reflects improving and novel knowledge. This is preferable to blindly following methods where disproved.

Rapid changes likely damage trust, increase confusion, and risk poor compliance.

A balance of the two is pragmatic, but it still seems to be new ground.


The thing is, the rules established at the start worked. Then they got loosened, things got worse, then they back pedalled to tighten up again. They already knew what would work back in March 2020. I always think of bill gates explaining how to prepare for a pandemic and how this advice should have been followed from the start. The rules imposed at the start worked and should have been only slightly modified with a tightening on borders and people movement. Planes should have been a no go unless for freight, likewise for tranpsort via ferry. But the uk just opened everything up over the summer, everything felt normal which obviously meant the virus would spread like normal. Then bam, it’s winter and we’ve killed 80000.


100,000 as of today.

The government had literally one job, don't have a spike during winter when the NHS is most hard up. Instead, we did exactly the opposite, because they didn't have a spine and cancel Christmas.


Basically they just lost everyone. The best explanation I heard was this quote, I forget by who-

"The government are now pulling on levers that they have not realised are no longer connected to anything"

Changing the rules may have made sense, but only if anyone was even remotely close to obeying them. I follow the rules as closely as I know how, and even I have been lost many times. Most people have completely given up.


A need for moderation was surely not a surprise.

Using a lack of moderation as your selling point and then being surprised by such a deadline when you intentionally host content that doesn't tally with the platform you're on seems short-sighted.

The intent is likely to not moderate - it'd kill the platform. It remains accessible by web. Does it need a native app?


If 75 million trump voters want an app. The “does it need an app” question is a moot point.

Ultimately the market will sort this out.


That's not quite fair.

Parler is listed at 2.8 million total users back in July.[0] Assuming that's doubled and all lean towards Trump, that still represents a fair minority of voters.

The website remains there for those users that want to use the platform, but curated app stores that aim to promote certain values (and are fairly clear about those values) don't seem to be the right place for these platforms that devolve into highly controversial places.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler#Usage


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