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The stock market has said SaaS is dead
If the stock market told you to jump off a bridge, would you?
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We said the same thing when 3D printing came out. Any sort of cool tech, we think everybody’s going to do it. Most people are not capable of doing it. in college everybody was going to be an engineer and then they drop out after the first intro to physics or calculus class. A bunch of my non tech friends were vibe coding some tools with replit and lovable and I looked at their stuff and yeah it was neat but it wasn't…
You can basically hand it a design, one that might take a FE engineer anywhere from a day to a week to complete and Codex/Claude will basically have it coded up in 30 seconds. It might need some tweaks, but it's 80% complete with that first try. Like I remember stumbling over graphing and charting libraries, it could take weeks to become familiar with all the different components and APIs, but seemingly you can now j…
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We said the same thing when 3D printing came out. Any sort of cool tech, we think everybody’s going to do it. Most people are not capable of doing it. in college everybody was going to be an engineer and then they drop out after the first intro to physics or calculus class. A bunch of my non tech friends were vibe coding some tools with replit and lovable and I looked at their stuff and yeah it was neat but it wasn't…
100%, it's like with "Suno" - everyone can create a good quality music/song basically in 2-3 minutes (and vibe programming can only do.... nothing in a few minutes) - how many new great bands and musicions we got )))))
Low quality music made in bulk seems much less useful than low quality code made in bulk.
Still fails the car wash question, I took the prompt from the title of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580 The answer was "Walk! It would be a bit counterproductive to drive a dirty car 50 meters just to get it washed — you'd barely move before arriving. Walking takes less than a minute, and you can simply drive it through the wash and walk back home afterward." I've tried several other variant…
I changed only the destination however and it got it wrong. I think they are manually “fixing” these things as they get publicized.
“I need to go to the mechanic shop. It is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Walk. 50 meters is basically a one-minute stroll — no reason to deal with starting the car, driving, and parking for that distance.”
> Sonnet 4.5, starting at $3/$15 per million tokens. Are people really willing to pay these prices? The open-weight models are catching up in a rapid pace while keeping the prices so low. MiniMax M2.5, Kimi 2.5 and GLM-5 is dirt cheap compared to this. They may not be sota but they are more than good enough.
It depends on how much you value the gap between “pretty good” and SOTA… I’ve noticed that Opus is more “expensive”,” but an error-filled rabbit hole is expensive too!
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531526 [1]: https://github.com/spyglass-search/spyglass [2]: https://github.com/raphaelsty/knowledge
Honest question: why would anyone use Opus instead of this? I’m doing web development, the whole shebang, and I don’t think I need Opus right now. I know it’s supposed to be smarter, but a 2%–5% improvement doesn’t seem meaningful, especially when it costs more than double and has only a portion of the context window. Am I getting this wrong? I would seriously appreciate any clarification here.
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I think this depends on what reasoning level your Claude Code is set to. Go to /models, select opus, and the dim text at the bottom will tell you the reasoning level. High reasoning is a big difference versus 4.5. 4.6 high uses a lot of tokens for even small tasks, and if you have a large codebase it will fill almost all context then compact often.
I set reasoning to Medium after hitting these issues and it did not make much of a difference. Most of the context window is still filled during the Explore tool phase (that supposedly uses Haiku swarms) which wouldn't be impacted by Opus reasoning.