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Comment #49126925
This kind of hyperbole isn’t helpful. Security concerns about supply chain attacks in the AUR (well known to be extremely insecure well before LLMs got popular) isn’t “killing” Arc…
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Comment #49058705
I’m not sure how true this is, Opus 5 immediately used 2 subagents on the first task I gave it on Friday. In fact my first thought was how it was similar to Fable in that sense.
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Comment #49058461
They’re down so often that if they gave a free month every time they’d have no paying customers lol.
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Comment #49042914
> Did we learn nothing from the TDD nonsense in the 00s? I was never a fan of TDD, but ironically I think it may finally be a good development strategy now with agentic/LLM coding …
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Comment #49040914
I am familiar with the terms, but I also can see how it can be confusing for a lot of people. Arguably the complaint was more valid for those older GPT models you mentioned.
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Comment #49040890
Maybe more accurately I should have said “larger”. Fable has the most parameters, Haiku has the fewest. Also fwiw I’ve never found LLM benchmarks to match reality based on my own u…
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Comment #49040834
I think you’re just lucky. Look at the Claude status page to see just how often they have outages (it’s almost daily). Even most of the green days have issues if you hover over the…
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Comment #49040033
Fable is better than Opus which is better than Sonnet which is better than Haiku. They’re basically just sizes. Though it gets even more confusing because they also have effort lev…
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Comment #49039970
No that’s enterprise accounts. Team accounts are similar to regular Pro and 5x Max accounts in both price and features.
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Comment #49020552
Slowing down your internet connection due to using your bandwidth without your knowledge, getting blocked by websites due to malicious traffic from your IP address, extra annoying …
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Comment #48933609
Right? This is basically one small step away from stuff like “2TB usb stick for $20” scam listings on AliExpress. Of course it will be fake or crap. Cool tear down and write up tho…
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Comment #48933455
If it is 128kbps MP3 then it’s slightly worse than YouTube which generally has 128kbps AAC and OPUS versions of everything.
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Comment #48927341
> As enshittification encroaches onto Linux This is a ridiculous stretch of the term > With ZFS on root in FreeBSD it's a no-brainer. ZFS works fine on root on Linux. I use it on m…
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Comment #48927036
> Everything in the set was real. We couldn't fake any of it, because audiences are so sophisticated now in their knowledge of computers. It’s funny he said that because when I fir…
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Comment #48871121
I was going to reply that I thought the Boeing 737 was also hands down the most popular commercial airplane model in current use, so of course it would have more high profile issue…
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Comment #48839779
> and spent $165,000 of tokens on the most advanced coding LLM anyone has access to. After having used 2 full weeks of 20x Max plan tokens on Fable over the weekend (coding all day…
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Comment #48819839
> I also did an N=1 test with the same prompt doing a large non-trivial change to the codebase (migrating from Sqlite3 to Postgres) with both Fable Medium and Opus Ultracode, then …
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Comment #48810045
This was my exact takeaway after my experience using it all weekend, and I used it a lot working on a non-trivial personal project (full stack with a Golang backend with multiple s…
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Comment #48797108
> They do this because engaging in a common taboo unites the group extremely strongly, and these behaviors are the ultimate taboo. This last sentence immediately made me think of E…
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Comment #48779651
Honestly I think it’s just a Microsoft and Google problem. Microsoft has been terrible at branding for as long as I can remember, and Google seems like they’ve been slowly turning …
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Comment #48698260
I don’t know it sounds a lot more likely to me that piracy will just come back in popularity in a big way instead. Why pay inflated prices for old machines that will certainly brea…
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Comment #48686278
No one needs anything, but can and do I use more than 1Gbps from my laptop? Of course. 1Gbps is only ~125MB/sec transfer speed. When I’m copying large files to and from my home NAS…
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Comment #48681718
Speaking of model killers, can they do “wine glass completely full to the top” yet? That‘s the one I used to show people but I haven’t tried it in a while.
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Comment #48664622
When the comparison is literally every other cloud provider who all charge by usage only, then anything more than $0.00 is in my opinion too much to ask for. I’ve been using cloud …
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Comment #48611969
I was just mentioning this in another comment earlier today, but Claude Opus 4.8 (that version specifically) uses the word “genuinely” on so many of its responses that I’ve started…