Is the HN community just too online and sucked in to the musk mind manipulation vortex? Or what is going on? Why does nobody seem to care?
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
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Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#262Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#263After using Claude for a long time, I tested Sol 5.6 for the first time today. Love it, its an incredibly capable model and uses far fewer tokens/time thinking. Its what I imagine Fable would be if I haven't been downgraded on every conversation - even after completing the verification program. I think I may cancel my Claude subscription finally.
I will not be told what I can and can't do by AI and I will no longer be supporting American companies run by despicable people. GPT only gets my money right now because its so fast and cheap but I'll be back to Chinese models in no time.
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
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#265This sure looks like a race to the bottom to me, and I love it. If Sol isn't the best model, it is up there... You don't cut the price of the best model for no reason...
> This sure looks like a race to the bottom Always has been. My prediction is that both OpenAI and Claude will go bust unless they deliver a killer product. And unlike scrappy startups, they have a pretty serious deadline because creditors will come a-knockin'. There's little to no functional difference between Kimi, Qwen, Sol, Opus, etc. All flagship models are within like 1-5% of each other and the real moat will b…
Claude already has a killer product (claude.ai/chat is a Swiss army knife) but just relying on people typing stuff into chat is not enough to sustain the company.
The other strategy is entrenching yourself as the LLM of choice into existing products (like ChatGPT is on Apple products).
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is true in some sense. Getting the AI to output code that you like is difficult. As an example, let's say in React you have a "useLocale()" hook. The AI will happily pass down locale as a prop to 5 child components instead of just calling the hook in the component. A review from another model did not flag such stylistic issues either. I believe that the latest models are very good at functionally achieving the g…
I use the AGENTS.md to show it how i want the code to look like. Something like "when implementing hooks adhere to the guidelines in docs/react-hooks.md". And then react-hooks describes your heuristics and what you consider best practices. There is a clear difference in code quality for me when using codex with a well crafted AGENTS.md vs. without one, you can run the experiment yourself pretty easily. As I mentioned…
I think it sometimes worked, for example for testing preferences, but sometimes it did not.
Could be a problem with the harness also.
In any case, I feel that it's a bit playing whac-a-mole with explicit rules for things that a more intelligent model should do by default.
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used Sol to extract the remaining decryption keys from the Super Mario Maker 2 (Switch) game files. Someone had previously extracted all the keys from the original release, but not any of the new ones from updates. Not only did it succeed, but it helped me understand the data sufficiently to add support for “Super World” rendering to my level viewer (which I made back in 2021), eg the little widget at the top of ht…
Fable is almost unusable for anything but super boring mainstream stuff. I was getting safeguard flagged so often I’ve significantly reduced my usage out of fear they will blacklist/ban me. Some of the topics it’s flagged have been hard for me to understand what it seeing that can be remotely concerning in my requests.
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It's discounted if used via OpenRouter, not the official API.
Doesn't seem like a smart business move. You're literally encouraging someone else to come in and steal your customer base,
Re: GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
#269So this isn’t really a price cut. As to why, lots of possible reasons. Perhaps an agreement with OpenAI to help them drive up more diverse traffic priorities.
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I wouldnt be so hopeful because they dont use commodity hardware afaik How are you going to use a h100 at home?
with the same tricks gamers have always used? Modded drivers, undervolting, etc.?