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It is too difficult to strictly prevent the model from being used for any unsafe purpose. The same thing can be used for completely different purposes as long as it is described di…

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Claude Code and Codex are my daily drivers, and I often run them side by side on the same task to compare. For me Claude Code gets something working faster, but I burn the 5h quota…

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>frontier models are more capable than the latest from DeepSeek. But is the capability difference enough to justify a 30x price difference? The contradiction here is that without f…

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I don't have a quantitative way to argue this, but my intuition says that for humans to build something that matches human capability across every dimension would require a breakth…

Like the artisans/craftsmen in many places (especially Japan), hand craft will always carry enduring meaning — machines ultimately can't replace everything humans shape with their …

I don't see how tokenmaxx makes any sense without an effective way to measure impact per token (though measuring impact is inherently hard). I can easily burn through the entire 5-…

Not sure how Brave is. I'm using its API on OpenClaw, and so far my experience with OpenClaw has been satisfactory — though search is only one part of the overall quality. I'd gues…

In a rapidly evolving field, the business environment in the United States may indeed have an advantage.

Been using Cider for two years now. Early on I struggled, trying to use IntelliJ, and even tried the thin client version — but both are basically in maintenance mode. Cider is the …

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"A rich aristocrat in a society of slave holders" is certainly one type, but there are many other types that still meet mainstream standards today, such as heirs to fortunes, tenur…

How do you iterate on the judge prompt? Is there an auto rater?

In my own experience, good engineering practices are still not easy to achieve. As a software engineer with three years of experience, I've been doing solo dev for the past few mon…

The ux is really bad. But the commenting, versioning, syncing functions for collaboration or cross-platform use are of high-quality. And that's actually Google vs. Apple.