FrenchDevRemote

So I was just in the process of handling the aftermath of the theft of one of my relative's phone. Not a tech-savvy person, I'd say they're more or less as knowledgeable as the average Google user.

When checking what could be blocked from their google account, I realized that 60 of their saved passwords/mails were available in plain text when connecting to their google account from a new laptop(with no other input than mail and password), it's even exportable to a nice csv. This apparently seems to be default behavior.

Isn't that insane?

Am I naive to just realize that this is apparently normal to have this kind of stupid design from a trillion dollar tech company?

Is there any sane way of explaining why anyone could have thought that this was an acceptable idea?

I often want to try out some products ideas, and setting up a whole project is always a real PITA: auth, payments, db, hosting, analytics, support etc...

I'm wondering if there is any good software (whether it's open source or on a freemium/per usage pricing), that allows you to just work on your features and nothing else, basically copy/paste a few API keys, write an API route, a react form and a view, and you have a working product.

I tried some open source boilerplates on github, but they weren't up to the task, either outdated and bugged or way too complex and badly written and it was a pain to add anything.

I'm mostly looking for something made with typescript/node or that is language agnostic

I just asked it a question about programming and got back an answer recommending me a weight loss supplement that is completely unrelated to my question.

I repeated the same prompt in another chat and got an actual answer.

Either it's an ad or it's the worst hallucination I've seen in 5 years of using various LLMs, supposedly on the most advanced model out there, which I find hard to believe.

I get startup/app/business ideas every week.

Every couple of months or so I get really annoyed when I see that someone built something I already thought of but dismissed as not good enough of an idea/problem or as a waste of time.

I know: execution is what matters, ideas are worthless, but still, it doesn't make it any less frustrating.

If you had dozens of ideas right now, and a very limited budget to validate them, how would you choose which idea to work on?

My goal is not build the next unicorn, just a profitable business that could sustain me.

I've noticed over time that ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 is now very likely to refuse to finish tasks if they're too long.

for example it will output things like:

User input example:Give me an object with 50 keys corresponding to X

GPT output:

{

   output1: "example 1",

   output2: "example 2",

   output3: "example 3",

   //etc....do the same as I did above for the 47 others keys you asked for

}

I've tried a lot of different prompts/custom instructions to try to force him to finish long tasks, but it will either do the same BS after a while, or crash.

I think OpenAI is pushing hard to make the ChatGPT outputs as small and cheap as possible(either by finetuning or prompting), that would be acceptable if it was still a free product, but I'm paying for Plus, so this is infuriating.

Do you have any methods to force him to complete tasks without skipping anything?

Thanks

A few years ago, it seemed pretty straightforward to me.(something along the lines of: learn advanced math/stats/python, learn to use/build from scratch a few algorithms for regression/bayes/rnn/cnn/markov or whatever, learn to use numpy/pytorch/tensorflow/pandas etc...)

Today with the rise of LLMs and OpenAI, it seems a bit different, if your goal isn't to be a researcher working on foundation models, does it still make senses to go through all that trouble given that there are multiple general purposes models that can solve so many problems with no additional training?

I'm aware that the word "learn X" may be a bit vague, I mean learn in the same sense that someone would learn web or app development (i.e: know how to build it, fix problems with it, put it in production, maintain it and improve it when necessary)

I'm looking to either build or use a model or SaaS that could be used with a prompt like:

Find the 10 biggest realtors in [CITY], then extract all their listings within [BUDGET] in JSON with all the data you can find.

I'm looking for a tool that can use search inputs on any website, click next page buttons or handle infinite scroll.

Is there a tool like that on the market that actually delivers?What I've seen for now doesn't seem good enough.