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arjunchint

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About arjunchint

Founder at rtrvr.ai, the SOTA AI Web Agent

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    Comment #49114137

    more like they were facing pressure from chinese models, and dropped prices and now their margins are squeezed

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    Comment #49114116

    Deepseek Flash is still much cheaper: - lower input/output token pricing - the cached token price is $0.0028/Million tokens, which is like 50-90% of tokens

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    Comment #49103019

    has claude escaped the lab???

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    Comment #48955307

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    Comment #48864872

    I am not following a couple of things: - you sell to websites an in-app agent - why not just have them give you API spec, why reverse engineer their APIs? A bit longer term, would …

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    Comment #48710908

    why doesnt meta just use deepseek? honestly better than gemini flash

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    Comment #48691906

    Plenty of screenshots in this thread showing usage. Its the ridiculous cached input token price of $0.00028/1 M https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1twesxe/comment/o...

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    Comment #48684087

    There are plenty of US based hosters racing to optimize and drive efficiencies Literal race on twitter posting to increase token throughput and drive down costs on these Chinese op…

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    Comment #48684029

    There is a wave of users switching over to DeepSeek Flash. There are Reddit threads of users sharing billion token spend for $20. If all of global spend on Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini …

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    Show HN: DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products

    There is an adversarial relationship between developers and big model labs. Model labs charged developers higher API prices to subsidize their own agent harness offerings. Think An…

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    Comment #48669467

    its been working fine on LinkedIn/IG, the trick is to make the requests from the main world of the website itself.

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    Comment #48669464

    Honestly with Fable I think anyone is going to be able to reverse engineer a desktop app and get the coding agent to automate it. The Codex computer use functionality actually uses…

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    Comment #48666437

    Pretty doubtful about computer use/screenshotting based approaches. With Retriever AI, we construct custom accessibility trees to represent web pages and just switched over to usin…

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    Comment #48589182

    Fable has been gone almost a week. A god-tier coding model got banned with vague “national security” handwaving. Trump administration friends get free passes on environmental laws,…

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    Comment #48456538

    Who are your primary customers/usecases? What do you think of just reverse engineering the network requests and writing scripts to hit the underlying APIs that the browser is makin…

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    Comment #48428695

    I am really wondering if Google is just subleasing Anthropic capacity. The terms are suspiciously the same as Anthropic's and Anthropic was supposed to have leased out all of Colos…

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    Comment #48027563

    The hard part about the web is that API's aren't just available even if the website owner wants them exposed (big if). I embedded a Google Calendar widget on my Book a demo page, I…

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    Comment #47971563

    there are no guarantees in life, can look up any random day and see a meteor streaking across the sky and realize that this is the end regardless of "sociopolitical structures". Al…

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    Comment #47830242

    We don't sell user data, and we are in it to build a generational company. We already have 25k+ users and have an opensource extension as well: https://github.com/rtrvr-ai/rover/tr…

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    Comment #47830232

    bro openclaw is dead