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> If what you're saying is true and accurate, then US-based AI labs are in big trouble. I've been working with DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731. I'd say that it's maybe not quite as smart as…

Google's public AI model lineup is pretty bad right now. Gemini 3.1 Pro is scoring worse than some mid-sized Chinese models at 1/20th the cost, and their Flash and Flash Light mode…

> Well, if no body can say when it will pop, then can we really say it's a bubble and it's overvalued? Well, given the literal trillions being spent, the only ways this pays off ar…

> Note that they would also need to keep the economy alive because somebody has to pay them money. They can't let everybody to go unemployed. Well, that's why they want the robots!…

What I actually fear is more subtle: I already do a fair bit of project management and technical leadership. I could do more. Sure, I'd miss the coding, but I also enjoy a lot of t…

Is anyone using even a tiny on-device language model for spelling? For grammar, I could almost imagine it. But this also bans "simple" AI-powered auto-complete, like Zed's Zeta2 mo…

For values of "usable" that include "14.6 seconds/token". It's a cool accomplishment! And newer hardware would speed it up some. But I think I'd want something a bit faster before …

Well, since you "freelance using GPT" and you expressed concern that you'd stop being able to make a profit if you had to pay API prices, I figured that swapping an off-the-shelf g…

You're unlikely to ever be priced out of tokens, at least if you'd be willing to settle for a model closer to Sonnet 4.5. That level of model certainly isn't as efficient as Fable …

Still, this is not a bad situation overall. If you are forced to trust the C compiler to correctly compile C, and the hardware to correctly implement the instructions in the docume…

> My experience so far, has been that it's barely a junior dev. At least on greenfield projects, Fable is more like having an endless succession of fly-by senior devs who lock them…

When I learned French as an adult, I pushed myself heavily into "forced immersion", avoiding English completely for long periods of time as my French slowly built itself up. This a…

DeepSeek has published some really good papers. Lately they're pushing really hard for dramatically cheaper serving costs.

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> Especially for point #1 I don't think we've established that - we've been given information by a private company that makes their tooling look extremely valuable which may be tru…

Everyone always says things like "It's just marketing". But seriously, I highly recommend reading the published details of the Huggingface breach. The model found and chained multi…

> If AI were to become a super weapon why should I trust a private company to own it? We have just recently established that: 1. OpenAI's internal "Galaxy" model is fully capable o…

Oh, to be clear, I don't think that anything about this overall situation is even slightly OK.

Apparently, the attacker in the Hugging Face case was reported to be an internal OpenAI model trying to break into HF and steal the answers to cybersecurity benchmarks: https://ope…

> For small models (which are probably distilled from their big ones) you can serve them economically all the time and not hemorrhage money. For smaller models, you're competing wi…

Those are Claude Code security issues? And Claude Code is a gigantic vibe-coded dumpster fire with more bugs than an ant hill? pi-agent famously doesn't even try to provide a sandb…

It is a pretty catastrophically dumb CVE, of the sort that makes me not want to allow OpenCode anywhere near any of my machines in the future. It was basically "RCE as a service", …

AI subscription pricing was fine when it was $100/month for some opaque 5 hour token budget I don't think I ever used, not even that one day where I coded for 14 hours non-stop usi…

I have written assembly for about 5 different processors, including 65C02s, 680x0s, cute little DSP3210s that managed the CPU cache manually, utterly cursed TI320C40s, and (of cour…

Fable wrote a pretty decent test suite covering typical Prolog programs, including things with non-trivial execution patterns like "append" that do complex backtracking on multiple…