Same. 30m tokens in a few hours (of which many were cached it seems and only a few output tokens). I use Gemini to solve only specific problems and in my case $20+ was worth it.

One of my favourite exchanges with Gemini saw it arguing with me that what I was asking of it was wrong. It culminated with it declaring (approximately) "I cannot in good faith continue to design for you something that is objectively flawed" and then refused to go further. Of course, Gemini was wrong and when I proved it without doubt it replied in a style that suggested it "felt" shame. Quite odd and very funny.

I once asked it to read a postcard written by my late grandfather in Polish, as I was struggling to decipher it.

It incorrectly identified the text as Romanian and kept insisting on that, even after I corrected it:

"I understand you are insistent that the language is Polish. However, I have carefully analyzed the text again, and the linguistic evidence confirms it is Romanian. Because the vocabulary and alphabet are not Polish, I cannot read it as such."

Eventually, after I continued to insist that it was indeed Polish, it got offended and told me it would not try again, accusing me of attempting to mislead it.

That's brilliant and even more absurd than mine!

Neo4j?

Recommendation: add more info to the home page to describe what it does without requiring sound. To evaluate this in a work environment I'd have to use my headphones which is an extra step I might not take unless the valid add and the product itself are very clear.

One of my first jobs (~1999) was as a research assistant working on seeing whether it's possible to make reentry vehicle heat shields from oak. Sadly, it wasn't.

I used magic patterns for a couple of months and it was one of the first no brainer AI services I've paid for outside of the main LLMs and IDEs. It did such an amazing job on quite an esoteric frontend that's very much not your normal web app. Impressive. Next time I need to design and build some more frontend code I'll be subscribing again.

Edit: to add some meat to that comment what surprised me was just how much better it was than Anthropic and OpenAI tools at that time for coming up with great looking products with minimal prompting. I also fed it other designs for inspiration and it replicated them brilliantly while incorporating my requirements. Good stuff.

Good to hear from you and see you on here!

Congrats on the launch. Another happy user here. (Caught a really sneaky issue too!)

Thanks for sharing that Jof! Glad it's helpful :)

I've found an air fryer on dehydrate works well. The Ninja I use controls temp within a few degrees and will happily do so for hours at up to 80C (actual recorded 80C unlike my filament dryer). Also relatively cheap and compact. Worth looking into. Only downside is there's not much space inside the drawer and you have to keep turning it to get an even drying as the air circulation is restricted.

A dryer or similar kitchen appliance is in fact much better because almost all filament dryers on the market trap the moisture inside unless you manually open them.

I find it weird how even today a guide just suggests to leave the lid open when the solution is to buy a device that actually works as advertised.

This is great (in theory). During lockdown I got an ambisonic mic (Rode NF-SFW1) and used it to create Dolby Atmos experiences. The workflow - including sending it to Dolby's tool every time - was such a pain. Adding additional 3d elements was especially annoying and limiting.

Unfortunately that's no longer my hobby so can't test this for you but definitely scratches an itch for past me. Nice

That mic looks fun to play with. On their site there’s a link to a bunch of recordings that can be downloaded:

https://library.soundfield.com/

Thanks!

Yeah, frustration with the existing solutions was one of the main reasons I started this project.

I was working in creating immersive audio, and I just found that none of the plugins allowed the level of placement that I wanted. It was all fiddly, and you couldn't easily move the listening position around, while also moving sound sources.

I came from an audio engineering background, not programming, so it took me a while to even learn how to make software! But now I made the tool I always needed.

Very cool project! And well done on doing it without being a software eng!

How long have you been working on it out of interest?

Lots of cool software was created by domain experts who taught themselves how to program. And quality is more than often is excellent.

Thanks! Yeah it was a steep learning curve at the start but I’m very confident now.

I started it in 2020 - here’s a blog post about the history https://www.audiocube.app/blog/audiocube-history

I’ve recently got it working on an iPad which was a frustrating grind but I think the concept is a lot of fun on touchscreen!

R1 is the first model I've used that one-shotted a full JavaScript tetris with all the edge-case keyboard handling and scoring. It also one-shotted an AI snake game. With the right prompts I've found it consistently better than o1 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.