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Someone on a thread was complaining they haven’t really needed the newer models because Opus 4.6 was good enough.

I had to remind them 4.6 only came out February this year. In a normal world 4.6 is a newer model! A model 6 months old is seen as ancient!

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Reminds me a lot of the race for clock speed when I was a kid. We just took it for granted that it was going to keep increasing, but CPUs sat at roughly 1-2GHz for a long time, or at least that's how it seemed. The slowdown and pause was fairly noticeable. The current release cadence is unsustainable. It might be that we're getting close to the AI equivalent of 1-2GHz CPUs, and it takes years of incremental progress to push further.

When AMD won the race to 1 GHz, the GHz race slowed and Intel and AMD began focusing more on multi-core. Some chips continued to push the boundaries up to several GHz, some quite higher with specialty cooling. But multi-core was the far better strategy.

Clock speed went up single core till at least 3GHz before multicore became a thing as far as i remember.

This is why I shied away from management roles

In the JS ecosystem 6 months always meant breaking changes, without incremental updates everything would be basically like a full port

Pretending like I did “20% hands on coding” just doesn’t cut it, even the reality is having no idea what’s going on anymore

The crypto space moved that fast as well

And AI keeps the same cadence

It’s more important for me to be able to build

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