Do the players (LLMs) have memory of how prior hands were played by their opponents, or know their VPIP and PFR percentages? Or is each hand stateless?

I suspect this would only matter much if they also remembered (and cared about) their own prior play.

Not really. Only as far as their table image mattered--in this case, zero. Otherwise, you can and should ignore your own past play.

What I'm curious about is if their innate training is enough to give them biases. Like maybe they think Grok is full of shit.

> Not really. Only as far as their table image mattered--in this case, zero.

Right; there's feedback to it. When humans play poker, they do so with common knowledge of the fact that humans have object permanence and can recognize and remember their opponents. The same thing that motivates "profiling" a villain, motivates attempting to project a table image, which in turn motivates being aware of the table image one is projecting.

Each hand is stateless

Is there a better agent than the anthropic one

Depends how you define "better". Quality/breadth of tasks/capabilities? Probably not (TBD how gpt5 will fare, colleagues were saying that it was better at some frontend tasks than claude4 in the alpha/beta horizon tests).

But if you take speed/availability/cost into account, there might be "better" offers out there. I did some tests w/ windsurf when they announced their swe1 and swe1-lite models, and the -lite could handle easy tasks pretty well. I also tested 4.1-mini and 4.1-nano. There are tasks that I could see them handle reliably enough to make sense (and they're fast, cheap and don't throttle you).

You can already use non-Anthropic models with Claude Code with tools like Claude Code Router [1].

[1]: https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

No

Uber rides are incredibly cheap in Colombia, too. A 20 minute uberX ride across Medellin probably costs around $4.

How do they pay for gas? Is it subsidized or something?

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Red Ampersand | Jr. Full Stack Developer | Los Angeles, CA | ONSITE full-time

We're a small team running a suite of brands for screenwriting, the most prominent of which is a two-sided marketplace for feedback on screenplays. If you like coding and movies, you'll love this job.

Our stack is PHP7/Laravel, MySQL, AWS, Ansible, and Bootstrap.

Shoot me an email at scot@red-ampersand.com if you want to chat!

A friend and I have been running WeScreenplay (https://www.wescreenplay.com), a very niche service for screenwriters, for about 2.5 years now. I recently separated the backend platform that manages and coordinates everything and spun it off into Coverfly (https://www.coverfly.io), which we sell to film festivals to manage their screenplay contests.

Between the 2 products (which use the same codebase), we've tripled in size every year. $27k in 2014, $80k in 2015, and we're projecting to do $250k+ in revenue this year. Hoping to do $1m in 2017.

For marketing: affiliate programs, paid SEO, organic SEO, Facebook, Twitter, cold calling, sponsoring events with writers

Which marketing channel worked the best for you ?

How can you create a 5 page, detailed report for just $65 ?

How are you different from a brick-mortar service with a website ?

Of those, Paid SEO's worked the best, but I forgot to mention we also pay for email blasts to subscribers of other screenwriting related blogs and services, and that's really been the most effective.

5 pages of notes takes a reader roughly 3 hours, and there are plenty of people in Hollywood happy to make $15/hr working from home during their downtime.

I'm not sure I follow your last question - it wouldn't make a lot of sense for a script coverage company to have a brick and mortar store.

I tried switching over from Spotify to Apple Music when someone in my family bought a family plan and it became free for me, but after a few months I switched back to paid Spotify. For me, free Apple Music < Paying for Spotify. I just felt like I couldn't get around Apple Music intuitively and it became frustrating.

Typo:

"We beleive they should meet more often and we are making it happen here!"

"Beleive" is spelled wrong

The phrase, "more effort than it's worth" comes to mind.

That's what web interfaces are good for. Anyway, he got 4 PRs.

What if you just need a page (the page can be external to your own site) that accepts payment and emails you a receipt, and you don't want to write any server-side code? Can Stripe do that the way PayPal can?

Absolutely. And it's incredibly simple, too: https://stripe.com/checkout

Alternatively you have always solutions like https://gumroad.com/ or https://simplegoods.co/ of which you can see a real world implementation here: http://foundersgrid.com/sponsor (No affiliation with any of these, just found it the other day.)

But all of these just hand you back a token which you then have to pass to your server for actually processing the charge. What if you don't want to set up any server-side code? Or am I missing something...