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Exactly. To butcher a cliche, if the model has 6 hours to chop down a tree I want it to sharpen the axe for 5 hours.

They begged to be regulated and now they're being regulated. The company doesn't get to pick and choose the exact form of the regulations they get and in this case they got more th…

There won't be any new generation of models more powerful than Fable since the argument against Fable would apply even more. Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 is the best we'll ever see from th…

This heralds the end of frontier model development in the US since the same national security argument can and will be made against any model stronger than Fable/Mythos. Squashing …

I start out writing most of my terminal applications and utilities in Python but when something hits a performance ceiling I convert it to Go. That's been a pretty good bar for whe…

> Would I buy clothes [...] from Costco? Yes. Happily.

The verbs are one of my favorite things about Claude Code.

The thing that bothers me about "warmer, more conversational" is that it isn't just a cosmetic choice. The same feedback loop that rewards "I hear you, that must be frustrating" al…

I had an old Galaxy Tab S7 collecting dust on the shelf. Since iOS 26 came out I find myself reaching for the Android tablet more and more. First time that ever happened. (Sent fro…

Readers would have been better served with the prompts you wrote than the AI generated output.

The person you replied to is in Pakistan.

>You're right - I don't really care if the track playing in my favourite cafe is AI-generated or not. You're not supposed to be emotionally invested into background music I guess d…

Is there an API for Grok yet? If not that could be the issue.

Unfortunately that wouldn't help as much as you think since talented AI labs can just watch the public leaderboard and note what models move up and down to deduce and target whatev…

I had been sleeping on Claude's ability to write books until a couple of days ago I had it write a novel set in the Accelerando universe. It whipped up a very convincing complete m…

I have a T420 I've been using for years. Upgraded to 16GB of RAM, SSD, swapped the dual core i5 for a 4 core/8 thread i7 (yes, the CPU is in a socket!), and swapped the 1600x900 cr…

For the lmarena leaderboard to be really useful you need click the "Style Control" button so that it normalizes for LLMs that generate longer answers, etc. that, while humans may f…

If I want to talk to AI I know where chatgpt.com is. I don't need it shoved in my face when I'm trying interact with people on social media.

I like how it cites relevant Youtube videos based on the search and shows thumbnails of the videos in its results. As far as I can tell ChatGPT doesn't do this.

When Half-Life 2 came out it caused me to break a video game addiction I'd had since being a teenager. I was so awestruck by the quality and enjoyment I derived from the game that …

They weren't legally allowed until very recently.

Leave it alone. It's fine the way it is.

I don't know but I have a Galaxy Fold and I hate the tiny bezels it has in tablet mode. Trying not to touch the screen while holding it adds unnecessary cognitive load and just mak…