Microacquistions maybe? I haven't looked much into it and I don't want to link to a random $$$ website, so instead here's the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/microacquisitions

With which agent? What kind of apps?

Without more information I'm very skeptical that you had e.g. Claude Code create a whole app (so more than a simple script) with 20 cents. Unless it was able to one-shot it, but at that point you don't need an agent anyway.

Aider, Claude 3.7.

As this thread is about over engineering solutions, I can't help but wonder if this is satire

Hawker centers, like many other nice features of Singapore, is powered by immigrants paid much less than other citizens, while being strictly regulated in a way that only a wealthy yet tiny country can do.

I'm not saying it's necessarily all bad, just that it's not something we can replicate in western countries.

Until this year, only citizens / PRs were eligible to work at hawker centres. Even today, it’s quite restricted.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/hawker-stalls-can-...

Who do you think is delivering food?

That's just part of it. Anyone can deliver food, but effectively being a small food stand is completely different.

Now having enough small food stands to create a hawker center is even more difficult. But having a hawker center 10 minutes from anywhere, ran exclusively by immigrants but somehow still properly regulated?

Partially true but not really. You're thinking about food courts, not hawker centres.

> is powered by immigrants paid much less than other citizens

I mean, that's how Deliveroo and other delivery services (Uber eats and equivalents) works (at least here in Europe).

It was a mistake from my part to write a quick comment, there's much more than having a low pay that makes it impossible to have a similar hawker culture in other countries.

Singapore is effectively a big city, just the difference in geometry between it and pretty much any country you're thinking of makes it impossible to have a "hawker center 10 minutes of walk away from anybody".

The internet is 30-40 years old, and has brought an entirely new paradigm to the world. It has abolished distances, disproportionately increasing the reach of a few.

I'd love to share your optimism that things will keep improving in the long run, but I don't see what you're basing that off.

How much is this costing?

Looking at $6.5/hr at the moment. 4o is quite expensive and I'm turning it down for tomorrow. Experiencing some amount of spam and troll traffic -- totally unexpected and looking to implement guardrails.

Neat idea, but uh, you're giving users a text box straight to a costly API.

Why is that unexpected?

I've only met good people in my life. Time to start meeting bad ones.

The answer made my heart a little warmer. I must say I share that naive worldview from my small corner of the world. At least - in some very rare cases - until proven otherwise.

Forget the parenthesis, embrace the automatic indentation and code source manipulations that only perfectly balanced homoiconic expressions can give you.

You are confusing Amazon Q in the editor (like "transform"), and Amazon Q on the CLI. The editor thing has some stuff that costs extra after exceeding the limit, but the CLI tool (that acts similar to Claude Code) is a separate feature that doesn't have this restriction. See https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing/?p=qdev&z=subnav&..., under "Console" see "Chat". The list is pretty accurate with what's "included" and what costs extra.

I've been running this almost daily for the past months without any issues or extra cost. Still just paying $20

I see, thanks. The 4k limit for the gui still seems so low, but I might try the cli sometime.

Do try! The free tier doesn't cost anything and is enough to tinker around with. You don't even need an AWS account for it, it'll prompt you to create a new separate account specifically for Q

Don't they have to buy things too?

In which case the model couldn't possibly know that the number was correct.

I'm also confused by that, but it could just be the model being agreeable. I've seen multiple examples posted online though where it's fairly clear that the COT output is not included in subsequent turns. I don't believe Anthropic is public about it (could be wrong), but I know that the Qwen team specifically recommend against including COT tokensfrom previous inferences.

Claude has some awareness of its CoT. As an experiment, it's easy, for example, to ask Claude to "think of a city, but only reply with the word 'ready' and next to ask "what is the first letter of the city you thought of?"

Oops! I tried a couple experiments after writing this, and I believe I was mistaken, though I don't know how. It appears Claude was simply playing along, and convinced me it could remember the choices it secretly made. I must either have given it a tell, or perhaps it guessed the same answers twice in a row.