Was going to reply this - I have Walmart Pay and it's my credit card.

I'm supremely annoyed because Walmart Pay still rather sucks. I have to scan a QR code which opens the app, then approve it from there. It's not simple like Apple Pay where I just tap my phone. But after hearing tons of stories of issues with people getting compromised by the terminals, I sucked it up and just did it, since their terminals don't support tap CCs.

Not the person you're replying to, but for me, everything I buy on Amazon is bought because I have no B&M retailers that sell it. Even my local B&M stores usually have vastly reduced stock compared to what they have online (looking at you, Old Navy, Eddie Bauer and similar, who only carry petite sizes online).

I used ChatGPT to find a bike for me. It asked good questions, recommended good results, linked me to options and the websites I needed to further research things. I don't do a lot of shopping though so this is one tiny example. If I was looking to actually shop again though I'd use it again. Most of my shopping these days is the grocery store. I don't have a lot of needs.

I love this site - have you considered monetizing with like e-books or other offline offerings, if you don't already?

Also, your traffic might not be counting those of us like myself who use an RSS feed (a la Feedly) - those links don't go to your site, they just go to, well, the link. =)

Thanks! We do indeed have a sort of e-book monetization; donating above certain thresholds gives one access to download an e-book version of our entire catalog.

And true enough that RSS traffic is largely uncounted, but there are many other indications of reduced visitor count--server-side logs, comment count on original content, number of email subscribers, and that sort of thing.

Well 90% of my test code is AI generated, and we have a lot of tests. Also Cursor is really good at generating all my documentation. So depending on how we spin it, I could say at least half the code (often more if I'm spinning up new stuff it can do based off existing stuff) in my PR was AI generated.

That said, AI wasn't very good until it had enough examples and guidance from us on our codebase. After that though, it definitely helps.

Caveat: I'm no rocket scientist. It's not difficult code. It's just web services and whatnot. The code is often the least difficult part of my job.

I don't go camping. I have had exactly one thing in my life that I can recall that the zipper broke on it. I think it really depends on what people are buying, how rough they are with their clothing, and many other factors.

I don't have much trouble with zippers, but I had a jacket where it broke. I had a tailor put on a new one.

As a user, I love Spotify. I would never discover new music in my more esoteric genres without it, and I would definitely never own ALL the artists I listen to. I'm certainly not going back to having to rip my own mp3s; I don't even own the devices to do that. My car doesn't have a CD player. So whether it's licensed or owned, it's digital for me. My tastes change too. I don't listen to all the same artists I did 5 years ago. I don't WANT to own my music. I won't even have the same tastes in another 5 years. Sure I have some stuff I still like, but for the most part, I get new thrills and ditch older ones.

I'm sorry the artists get screwed over, but this needs to be worked out between them and Spotify and whatever music labels are in the picture.

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Let me know when Siri can do even the most basic things using natural language. It can't even properly answer things like "hey siri, is apple juice already on my shopping list" or answer most questions that require a web search. Summarize it for crying out loud, I asked you because I'm not right next to my screen to click search results.

THAT would make me take an upgrade. Until then, I'm just keeping this phone until it goes out of support.