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If you log and view your "Usage" page there is a blue banner near the top in a blue box saying: > We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future,…

There are few conspiracies where the vectors between "capitalist organization makes more money" and "user can't reliably distinguish tiers of product quality" overlap.

I replied to the user above that referenced marginlab, but I believe marginlab uses the API. It is possible (arguably likely, in MBA-land) that the API and subscription accounts hi…

Is this using the api or using a subscription, though? The incentives are different for each, and it isn't the least bit unexpected that they would maintain API access quality whil…

It's because really what they are doing is using chemistry to split a cell. Adamala is a chemist. They have just bolted an unsynchronized physicochemical process onto the boundary …

18,600 engineering years sounds impressive to someone because it is the bulk of a career for 1,000 engineers. But it is less than two years for 10,000 engineers. The depth of under…

It has very human aspects, such as the beginning. So people switch off. And then it has long stretches where it is bulked up by claude and opus-4.8’s obsession with “honestly true,…

Right, this is cyborg text. The opening is in human voice. I am acknowledging that. Then it ebbs and flows over llm rocks. The piece would be maybe 6-8 grafs without claude, and mu…

The one they claim is in their voice [1] has zero of the tells I am referring to. You can compare and contrast it with your fully/generated reference 0 (although that is fable and …

Parts of it seem not to be, but the bulk of it is. Here is a particularly clear example of opus-4.8-speak. > Now, I want to be careful here, because this is the part where it would…

It is mostly written by llm. “narrower” and “I want to put a fence here” hedging, etc. This is very 4.8. Maybe llm that has been somewhat massaged by a human to sound less ai.

Founders are often synonymous with their businesses. In the case of celebrities the relevant exploitation is carried out by others in the value chain, they are just the lure/source…

It makes the government stupider so there are more excuses to bring in better private solutions. Handicap the public services if they are working well, then talk about how bad they…

They are all about science and research. What they don’t want is for scientific discoveries to be publicly available, because then it is harder to leverage them for absurd profit m…

Which they anticipated, which is why they were flagging and dropping back to opus on anything they could even potentially be called on.

Not sure but a green screen version of AWS for $500 is totally plausible and a decent metaphor for what you’d get with AI anyway.

I have found that on long-running tasks, many of the communication (and other) invariants get dropped at seemingly arbitrary points along the way. It probably just stopped doing th…

As I see the perspective of a typical vp champion/customer/middle manager at a large org that buys their services: if my vendor increases their prices that is usually an indication…

They are because they can, because it serves as social proof, which convinces their customers that they are doing something of deeper value. Then in reality they will use it to dev…

The play is the same as it always was, I assume: your data is the long term product.

IIUC in this particular instance of corporate government space warfare, orbital decay should clear out the debris relatively quickly.

I agree with that as a premise, but again it seems to me you are selectively jumping way into the end game. There were early networks that did not standardize, and these nonstandar…

It isn’t animated at all for me?

I agree with much of what you’ve written but think you are missing the correct alignment of the mobile data timeline — mobile data had standards because it was forced to. It was fo…