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dcchambers

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About dcchambers

I write stuff at https://chambers.io

Also find me online at https://dakota.omg.lol

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49214440

    This latest DeepSeek is almost at the "too cheap to meter" level. That's going to be a larger unlock than models like Fable/Mythos that are way too expensive to justify, IMO. What …

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    Comment #49174488

    > Why is every company seemingly trying to re-implement agents themselves rather than making their product work with the existing ones? Why does any company do anything? Money, of …

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    Comment #49027343

    It's 100% okay for people to write in their own books, and it's okay for them to donate or sell them after the fact as long as they don't hide the fact they are written in. No one …

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    Comment #49011227

    It's incredible that each model has it's own style that remains relatively consistent throughout all of the different generated examples.

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    Comment #48980086

    A few people working for the frontier labs may truly believe they are building a god, but most of them are just employees that see an insane amount of money they can make if their …

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    Comment #48664960

    I think hardware like this is the future for LLM-providers once we reach a point where the models aren't advancing much any more. You could argue we're close now. The hyperscalers …

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    Comment #48542938

    Most people IN TECH still don't realize how much hardware prices are going to continue to increase, much less the 95% of the population that's completely unplugged from what's goin…

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    Comment #48466509

    Being unable to use this with zero data retention makes this feel like a non-starter for most enterprise customers.

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    Comment #48464363

    IME Opus 4.8 (and 4.7) is often a downgrade from 4.6. I find that it tends to overthink and overcomplicate things.

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    Comment #48385662

    Hobbyist computing is dead for the foreseeable future. These prices are untenable.

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    Comment #48312625

    I think two things happened: 1. The sheer number of tokens that a coding agent can use flipped the math upside down on this equation. If you use the most expensive model for everyt…

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    Comment #48135676

    Probably some combination of: Anthropic is heavily invested in the Rust ecosystem and they want their core tools to be built on Rust. More Rust developers. More Rust training data …

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    Comment #48112603

    In 2026 the answer is "job security"

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    Comment #48109592

    Their pricing has always been a challenge, but I think the biggest issue is that they went way too wide early on in an effort to capture the market. Their product pool was a mile w…

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    Comment #48102070

    Incredible. Mutually assured destruction. The next five years are going to be truly WILD in the software world. Air-gapped systems are gonna be huge.

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    Comment #48062926

    Obsidian. Checks all of your boxes: - Backed up to cloud - Has a mobile app that is easy to make small changes - Simple file format like markdown - Option to export data out as a b…

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    Comment #48062890

    Google Docs doesn't do classic "wiki" things like bi-directional linking. Search, ironically, is also a bit of a mess. Google Docs was built as a MS Word competitor and that's what…

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    Comment #47922455

    We're going to see a lot of this over the next 1-2 years. Software Engineers suddenly feel like they're fighting for their lives for employment, and time won't be "wasted" maintain…

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    Comment #47881289

    The Department of Defense is now the Department of War. They've made their goals clear. You are not in defense contracting. You are in the business of war contracting. Take from th…

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    Comment #47881260

    So it turns out Anthropic was gaslighting everyone on twitter about this then? Swearing that nothing had changed and people were imagining the models got worse?

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    Comment #47840315

    "Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman" *John Ternus to become Apple CEO* Talk about burying the lede, lmao.

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    Comment #47839943

    I'll definitely put this into the "good problem to have" category.

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    Comment #47691873

    The eclipse photos are absolutely jaw-dropping.