Bankers job is infinitely more stressful, critical, and vital than ours. Such inane comments undermining that is absurd. I don't want a burnt out banker handling our monies. But a 5 day work week isn't the answer. Banks have to figure out a way to have rotational shifts like IT does, to handle a 6 or 7 day week. They have plenty of profit to not do so.

Been exclusively using Opus 5.5 on medium since last night on the $20 plan. Only about ~52% of weekly limit gone. Not sure about token value since I've been running on the cloud VM they give - it has shipped a ton of work Astra Light struggled with. Impressive.

I'm 10k away from hitting 7.5L/Gold tier on Atlas. Card's main use was ITC for me. Renewal next month. Still worth keeping & hitting it or should I just give it up & double down on Infinia + EPM? @jassneetsingha @suritalreja @imYadav31 wdyt?

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Tried @voicenotesai's dictation feature today. Mind blown. Better than @WisprFlow or @usemonologue for my accent. Great to use too.

Majority of folks in this circle hate ECR Saravanan and his poster culture @TVKVijayHQ @BussyAnand @AadhavArjuna. Why can't the party high command reel him in? Whatever performance he's delivering is being undone by this. The majority in the locality hates him and, by extension, TVK.

20 hours later, 46% weekly limit used, no fast mode, running on Astra Light for most, with the occasional Astra Xhigh or Sol Medium calls, all on Amp. ~$676 in API pricing - tracks close to the benchmarked $1400-$1500 worth of weekly usage on 20x plan.

Aren't Codex banked resets applied automatically, @thsottiaux, when they are about to expire? One of mine got wasted because I thought it would get applied automatically, and it didn't :(

Here's the note from @AndrewGinns where he estimated the API costs of my usage at $220. Now $263 worth of usage (as per Amp's estimates) have consumed only 18%. Also using Astra Low for implementing the plan prepared by GPT 6 Pro is working well

Oh, wow! @SpaceXAI @cursor_ai are so shady. I'm starting to feel glad I missed this deal and stuck to Codex.

This kinda evoked some thoughts as I'm turning 35 in a few hours & been looking back at my life so far. My parents were not wealthy by conventional definition. In fact, for the first 16 years of my life, our family was "below the poverty line" as per government's definition. But my father's employer funded school fees in full as a perk. That's the only reason they could afford to put me through school while government came up with education loans for college. I was privileged in the sense I had absolute freedom. Parents involved me on all things family finance from when I was 5 or 6ish, whether I understood or not. I knew what they earnt, where the money came from, their debts, even the lending rates. But they never asked anything of me. Signed report cards, attended PTMs, never questioned me if any complaints came up. Whether I had passed or failed, ranked first or tenth in class, won a competition or not, they always were happy for me, for trying. They gave me freedom to explore & figure out my own way. Continued for even college when I wanted to leave home to study or when I chose a smaller off campus centre which had my preferred stream than their main campus which had a lot more exposure, was more popular, and was relatively cheaper. It was always my choice with them backing me. Even in the choice of my life partner. Even at some points, that relationship was cinematically dramatic. I still have a far way to go to be considered wealthy but I've reached a point in life where my monthly income tax payment is more than my their total annual salary when I went to college. The joy they had when we bought our first house last year, fulfilling my dad's 3+ decades long wish, was worth going against the financial wisdom of owning vs renting (I'm still Pro renting!). But the seed for my success was not just me - it's my dad's quiet suffering through a the toxic work for years just so I can get an education, continuing to suffer after graduation so I could focus on my loan repayments, my mom's persistence to work despite her cerebral palsy, determination to complete her discontinued education (she got her BA around the same time as I got my B Tech), powering through discrimination at work for almost 2 decades for being disabled, without holding any grudges (she's still friends with all of them), despite her own siblings & family constantly putting her down for decades, and an always angry (and now I realise, an ungrateful) teenager (me). Took me a long time to realise whatever achievements I have, I have because of them. If that's generational wealth by some non conventional definition, I'm grateful to be truly wealthy. Hopefully I get a few more decades with them to show gratitude better. It's painful to see them growing weaker in front of me.