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I know many people are using Ai agents either for coding purposes or something related to lead generation or followup, I like to know how many have deployed Ai agent in production environment which have genuinely saved costs and manual hours.

Also I like to know how much are these agents costing, how are people planning to handle expensive token pricing in future, how they handle hallucinations and accuracy issues and large memory problems as agents and workload grow.

Prices have gone very high in last few years, A basic burger alone in a normal restaurants is costing 20$+, In chains like cheesecake factory or even denny you barely get any items below 15-20$. Then there are taxes and etc etc charge and then some expectations of 20+% tip on top of total bill. If 2 person are going to eat out, They can shell out upwards of 100$ with appetisers, main course and drinks which is very expensive.

I believe this constant rise in prices and also the tip expectation would cause more harm to restaurants then they think, Servers are openly boosting that they prefer less more tipping people rather than more less tipping people but it’s definitely not good for restaurant business. What’s the point of earning more if your job can go because of less business.

There is another big issue of food stalls and kiosk having options for tipping for handing you one pastry or microwaving some frozen item. I don’t think we are far off when Amazon and walmart starts asking for tips on your online orders

Edit - Just a follow up question to people, would you still tip 20%+ knowing your server is making proper minimum wage and some even around 20$ per hour without tips ?

We went to restaurant, food was decent , Service was normal, filled glasses, got food, barely 2-3 he server came to our table, we only sat for less than 1 hour more like 30-40 minute. We got charged a custom fee which was 20% of the total, total tax was applied on total. When we asked they said they charge it to large group of people. It irked us so much we didn’t tip because the fee should definitely cover it.

Whats your experience with mandatory fee ?

Emergent and lovable and rest of companies sound good for creating and deploying your prototype. They market themselves that any non technical person can start their own business and products using that. Now it sounds great in theory that it is all fully managed but how would someone non technical handle all that if product becomes more complex or gains more users ?

As per my understanding you can build your products using prompts and deploy it. It takes care of stuff like authentication and logging and even your database. But I assume you barely have much control of the internals especially when you see more traffic. You might face issues with crashes, bugs, managing it would become Nightmare, probably without knowledge can have higher infra cost. At some point you’ll have to take your product and build it out of some cloud provider like aws or gcp or azure.

I can see as similar to lines of wix or shopify where you design your stuff but even after a while it becomes too difficult to manage.

What do everyone else thinks or I am misunderstanding their whole business models

Majority of countries don’t have as excessive tipping as Usa, Many countries people may or may not tip and even if they tip they’ll give hardly 5% or even less.

Some waiters or servers might be rude to foreign tourist just from start and if they don’t tip or tip less they’ll probably confront them. This type of behaviour shouldn’t be tolerated

Within my Family we were very hesitant on starting any business or doing something on our own. We were always encouraged to study only to get a decent job and not to start some business or other ventures, even when someone tried to start business they were met with criticism and judgement instead of encouragement.

I think many Marathi people have similar thinking with respect to Business and entrepreneurship. Although I believe the newer generation is more willing to take risks in terms of freelance and trying to open business but we have to do more. We should encourage our fellow people to start our own ventures and also support it as much as possible.

Someone opening a restaurants or opening some novelty stores we should be first one to purchase items and support. Someone wanting to take risks we should be encouraging it instead of criticising. We should try to get more and more into real estate business, restaurant industry.

I think it’s very important to get into business and establish ourself as people who can create jobs instead of just relying on it.

I am not sure whether mods will allow this post because it actually discusses topic in India rather than some nonsense stuff like Dhurandhar or some stupid tweet by some unknown.

I know this sub is more right leaning which is fine but the fact that people posts more about criticising the people who criticised the government is more crazy to me. You want to talk about opposition and their incompetence, sure go for it. But when people are genuinely criticising and then you’ll see posts here those people are incompetent, don’t understand etc.

How many discussions on subs related to poor infrastructure problems we have? So many incidents happening all over the country, potholes in roads and highways. Rupee is depreciating quite a bit and this impact way more things than people realise, your crude oil imports is bought in Us dollars, our manufacturing rely on a lot of raw materials which have to be imported. Investors are literally pulling money out of stock market and even Indian investors looking for options to invest in foreign markets. Low level corruption is also high. Even with technology we are not able to properly track projects, people responsible, barely accountability from ministers .

Neet paper leak is just one of example which happened but there are dozens of issues happening which no one is talking about even the freaking opposition. Whenever someone raises these issues they’ll just criticise them that why not talk when previous government did the same, previous government was there before 12 years. Else they’ll say why not talk about some states. But all these are just deviations from real topics

I’m not sure how exactly the custom of tipping came for sit down restaurants but the fact that people justify those the most is the sole reason entire tipping culture has gone out of hand and also all the entitlement is coming from.

These days you goto a restaurant and you have to think about outrageous menu prices and then to leave a 20% tip on top of it. Places like Cheesecake factory has 20% tip already added on the bill.

Problem with tipping culture is you can’t justify one thing and then criticise others. You see automatic payment kiosks having tipping option with starting at 15% and going upto 25%. Who are these tips going to? The corporates. If your didn’t stop the practice entirely soon you’ll see walmart and big grocery store chains have tipping option just for shopping, buying clothes in store would have it, hell even online stores may start charging it.

I think it’s better to end the practice altogether so people get fair wages from these corporations rather than putting those shitty screens with preconfigured high tipping % and some random charity which even I’m not sure whether the money goes to or not

I’m a software developer in my late 20s and my biggest fear is getting laid off in my 40s and unable to get back to work due to ageism or other factors.

Lately my family has been pressuring me for marriage but I am genuinely not interested in marriage or having kids. Current instability of tech job market always makes me anxious. Someone in 40s with wife and family and burden of emi and responsibilities loses his job then the pressure he faces would be astronomical. All these factors makes me aim towards FIRE more and live a satisfied single life.

Obviously I wouldn’t mind a life partner with similar thinking as of mine but I doubt I’ll find someone like that so more content towards being single and have enough corpus and no responsibility so I don’t have any pressure in my 40s

What do others think ?

I live near Mumbai and prices here are becoming crazy, 1 bhk itself is reaching 90 - 1cr in some new construction, mind you this is 30-40 km away from Mumbai. Prices in Mumbai are insane on another level, There are 3-4 bhk going around for more than 5-6cr. Oberoi project in Borivali is starting at 8cr now for 4 bhk. Can't even imagine the prices near Andheri or Bandra or even Dadar right now.

Same condition seems to be happening in cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi. A person earning 30Lpa+ which is a very good salary won't be able to afford a decent 1 bhk also.

For reference you can buy a decent single family home in good suburb in Usa for around 400k which is roughly 4cr now. You can get spacious 3 bedrooms, 2 car garage and a backyard. Obviously there are outliers like California and nyc but most of Usa you can find reasonable housing.