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Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
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#12https://squishy.franzai.com/ - fable 5 even with opus 4.8 it could not come up with the necessary algos to reliable create harder and harder levels - in the now famous big fable 5 gap of 2026 opus even screwed up the algo a few times and needed to recover it from git.
Pudding Monsters (2012) [1][2], vibe-slop version, yes?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding_Monsters
[2] https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pudding-monsters-swi...
Re: Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
#13https://squishy.franzai.com/ - fable 5 even with opus 4.8 it could not come up with the necessary algos to reliable create harder and harder levels - in the now famous big fable 5 gap of 2026 opus even screwed up the algo a few times and needed to recover it from git.
Pudding Monsters (2012) [1][2], vibe-slop version, yes? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding_Monsters [2] https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pudding-monsters-swi...
slide game yes, different goal and mechanics though, and as stated developed / directed via frontier models
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#14Coming up with good French grammar quizzes. GPT5.6 is noticeably better.
Older models usually pitch the difficulty too hard/easy and rely on me remembering the gender of words.
I’ve not noticed a big programming improvement with the newer models.
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#15https://squishy.franzai.com/ - fable 5 even with opus 4.8 it could not come up with the necessary algos to reliable create harder and harder levels - in the now famous big fable 5 gap of 2026 opus even screwed up the algo a few times and needed to recover it from git.
Pudding Monsters (2012) [1][2], vibe-slop version, yes? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding_Monsters [2] https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pudding-monsters-swi...
how is this slop? It's pretty good. Or do you classify ANYTHING made with ai "slop". So reddit is slop, x is slop, slack is slop, discord is slop, etc.
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#16I wanted to see how Fable could do at getting Linux running natively on my M4 Mac mini. Turns out pretty well: it patched the Asahi installer and m1n1 bootloader to support M4, and created a workflow where it could build, push, and debug kernels with no interaction on my part after the initial setup. It's now happily running headless with ssh access, and hopefully will have video soon after a USB DisplayLink adapter arrives. (No HDMI/Thunderbolt yet).
I don't know for a fact that earlier models wouldn't be able to do that, but I figure if they could we would have heard about it by now.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pudding Monsters (2012) [1][2], vibe-slop version, yes? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding_Monsters [2] https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pudding-monsters-swi...
how is this slop? It's pretty good. Or do you classify ANYTHING made with ai "slop". So reddit is slop, x is slop, slack is slop, discord is slop, etc.
do you truly think that every LOC on those services were generated by AI, lest not reviewed?
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#18I wanted to see how Fable could do at getting Linux running natively on my M4 Mac mini. Turns out pretty well: it patched the Asahi installer and m1n1 bootloader to support M4, and created a workflow where it could build, push, and debug kernels with no interaction on my part after the initial setup. It's now happily running headless with ssh access, and hopefully will have video soon after a USB DisplayLink adapter…
My Fable today shipped a stable and app store compatible linux as an mac app.
Opus 4.8 started that project but even with rounds and rounds of feedback and gpt 5.5 quality assurance subagents it stayed buggy / unstable as hell.
the version now seems pretty stable. an ai within that app is humming along quite fine for hours without any crashes.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pudding Monsters (2012) [1][2], vibe-slop version, yes? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding_Monsters [2] https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/pudding-monsters-swi...
how is this slop? It's pretty good. Or do you classify ANYTHING made with ai "slop". So reddit is slop, x is slop, slack is slop, discord is slop, etc.
Definitely a yes to all those. It’s largely just middle aged dudes posting meme’s to each other.
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#20I was worried about some messup with taxes (my tax advisor messed up here), I managed to get it sorted on time - this was super naive but in -germany when they send you the taxes they mention the "cents" place as well in a very weird way, I assumed that was the entire number and assumed the tax issue I had was 10x larger than the amount it really was (10x and not 100x as my brain is in a place of pressure due to othe…
Fellow finanzamtpostempfaenger here. I've experienced the moment of shock reading their amounts and almost fainting more than i'd like to admit.