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swalsh

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    Comment #49202506

    Lol perfect analogy. I'm still paying for claude because the quality is unmatched.

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    Comment #49202441

    I think profitability is a matter of accounting. Inference is where money is made, but training is where money is spent. We keep getting new models every few months, but frankly th…

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    Comment #49202398

    Its tough to go from max account at home and pay per usage enterprise account at work with heavy usage limits... but the limits are there because pricing is insane. Feel like I'm i…

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    Comment #49186107

    That seems to be the one unchanged variable of time.

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    Comment #49186084

    If this was a design firm, it might matter. But this is mostly a hiring ad for engineers, and a landing page for VC. I'd judge them more if they actually put effort into it.

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    Comment #49186060

    let me rephrase that: "The site itself demonstrates the team is spending their money in the places that matter, and using quick solutions for the stuff they need but isn't mission …

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    Comment #49185898

    By the middle of the 2030's the world we live in will be unrecognizable.

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    Comment #48837517

    The classifier for biology is so broad it makes me wonder what kind of stuff mythos was generating. Anthropic is known to be a bit dramatic, but they wouldn't have released somethi…

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    Comment #48769547

    Okay, work with me on this, because its a stretch. The new businesses created, might look very much like the old businesses that disappeared. But they're not focused on scale and p…

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    Comment #48706339

    I have a composition scale, and regularly get vitamin d, and calcium tests (had issues with both) since taking the wegovy pill in Feb, I have not loss any bone density, and pretty …

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    Comment #48691454

    This would be amazing for some of our "real-time" workflows, that need to fallback to AI for one reason or another. What used to happen is a rules based system did the majority of …

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    Comment #48653064

    This offends me, because I believe code is speech, and speech should not be restricted.

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    Comment #48563027

    Imagine the East India Trading company advertising the TAM of the new emerging markets in the early 1600's. I bet the numbers compared to the old world would be enormous, and equal…

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    Comment #48552556

    There's issues where bad people with bad intentions use AI to do bad things. But to an extent the guardrails already built-in are sufficient. The real danger in AI is how it impact…

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    Comment #48540062

    The distilled versions miss the spark of the model. Its like they land in the uncanny valley of models.

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    Comment #48539832

    "they by extension think that only they should have final say over AI generally. When you further combine this realization with the company’s pronouncements about AI’s ability to c…

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    Comment #48376770

    I'd assume it's not up to par with Qwen-3.5 then, which has been distilling Claude, and the quality of the model is probably a direct result of that.

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    Comment #48316313

    Its amazing how quickly ive just become accustomed to being a max subscriber. I dont think I could go back to pro.

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    Comment #48300600

    Open source models, especially qwen are pretty dang good. But its not opus 4.6, the evals dont tell the full story. I question the assumption open source models are 3-6 months out.…

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    Comment #48038905

    Fuck, I loved grok 4.1, it was a really capable model for the money. I'd run agents consuming hundreds of millions of tokens for less than a hundred dollars.

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    Comment #48038882

    Billions in revenue just before your IPO isn't a bad deal either.