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Just be sure to run it with --accept-dns=false otherwise you won't have any outbound Internet on your server if you ever get logged out. That was annoying to find out (but easy to debug with Claude!)

This is exactly the way I see it. You can always get better performance at lower levels of abstraction, but there are trade-offs. Sometimes the trade-offs are worth it (like building bigger things), and sometimes they aren't (it's a buggy mess).

This is exactly the case. Businesses in the past wouldn't automate some process because they couldn't afford to develop it. Now they can! Which frees up resources to tackle something else on the backlog. It's pretty exciting.

    Location: Colorado
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Product Management, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence | CISSP, CCSP certified
    Résumé/CV: https://mattsayar.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattsayar/
    Email: matt@mattsayar.com
I'm a PM with a proven track record shipping AI products that make money. At Anomali, I launched their Copilot generative AI suite from zero to millions in ARR. I handled everything from product-market fit to pricing and packaging. Before that, I built Splunk's first cloud-native SaaS app called Mission Control, coordinating 40+ engineers across 30+ teams to unify SIEM, SOAR, and investigation workflows into one platform. We gained over 1000 DAUs and 350+ customers in six months.

I'm technical enough to be dangerous with a CS degree, partial MS in Cybersecurity from Georgia Tech, and I build things for fun (my side projects have hit the HN front page). But my real value is bridging deep technical understanding with business strategy in fast-moving security/AI markets.

Looking for companies at an inflection point where I can build or significantly scale a product function. Ideally somewhere at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.



My small personal blog with tens of readers a month gets thousands of hits a day from bots. The ROI there must be worthwhile for those bots but not for me to self-host


I like the idea of having my own rack in a data center somewhere (or sharing the rack, whatever) but even a tiny cost is still more than free. And even then, that data center will also have outages, with none of the benefits of a Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, etc.


Say more! Are you just squirting lemon juice into the bottle? How much? How often are you refilling the rinse aid reservoir?


I ordered citric acid off of Amazon (it’s great at getting out hard water stains in bathrooms and toilets and helps keep my water softener going well (I add some to the salt tank), also can add some good kick to lemonade)

For every cup of vodka (40 or 60% can’t remember, but prolly 40. Though scientifically 60% would be better) I add 1 to 2 tsp of powdered citric acid. Takes a surprisingly long time to dissolve so you’ll get a quick workout shaking it. I’ve added blue food coloring before to make it more visible in the dispenser to see the level but it’s not necessary at all so I usually skip it.

I make it in a 1 liter bottle which will last a couple months. We have a Bosch dishwasher, refill it… every couple of weeks maybe? I’m not the only one filling it. We do 1-2 loads of dishes a day (4 kids who can’t ever seem to find the cup they JUST used. Probably a parenting problem)

I have no idea if that’s helpful. But I did just lookup a cost by fluid volume- I live in a state with high alcohol tax rates and my cost per fluid oz of my DIY rinse aid is around $0.19 (mostly from alcohol, per fluid oz of citric acid is less than one cent. ) for reference, the small bottle of Jet-dry is $0.58/flOz.


Agree those tools are unreliable. Unless you have a massive amount of ML models trained on individuals' writing[0], the best you can do is vibe-checking[1].

[0] https://mattsayar.com/can-ai-tell-if-im-writing-ai-slop-a-ma...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing


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