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InsideOutSantaon ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)

> turning the state into a gigantic social engineering project

What do you think the state is but a gigantic social engineering project?

InsideOutSantaon ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)

This doesn't just apply to race. The whole "trans people in women's bathrooms/sports" panic was another example of people being told that a tiny minority of people are a huge threat that we all need to focus on, while we were being screwed over by a kleptocracy. Same with "Antifa."

And it worked. Politicians do this because it works.

InsideOutSantaon We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

> I cannot for my life figure out how to give them money

That's because the base offering is free. So you create an account, use it for free, and when you want to pay, click on "Upgrade to Pro."

I've seen some terrible B2B corporate websites that made it impossible to figure out how to give money to a company as a normal person, but I don't think this is one of them.

InsideOutSantaon We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

> Ughh the overly positive and cheerful comments here from what is usually the most critical/pessimistic audience on the internet is a huge tell.

What are you talking about? Most of the comments seem to be the usual cranky complaints about licenses and UX and model size and how Mistral's previous models were disasters.

And a huge tell for what? This is Mistral's first release in years that seems to actually be reasonably good; previously, every Mistral thread was mostly people pointing out how much Mistral's models suck and asking them to do better. Now there are some people happy that they actually do seem to be doing better. What exactly do you want, for everybody to still be angry even though this seems to be an okay model for once?

InsideOutSantaon Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

> So ... why bother to cheat?

I think part of it is to justify capex. "Yeah, we spent x billions on this, but look, we have the best models, we're beating OpenAI and Anthropic, we're winning, it's all worth it!"

InsideOutSantaon Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

> For starters, the limits are dreadfully low.

That's the problem for me. Google can have the world's best model; it doesn't matter to me, because I effectively can't use it.

Both Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 are extremely good and provide a lot of inference on their $200 plans, and then there are the Chinese models - DeepSeek 4.1 Flash, MiMo, and StepFun all offer a lot of value per cost.

At the moment, I don't see a niche where it makes sense to use Google's models, regardless of how good they are.

InsideOutSantaon The Agent SDK

I just checked, the docs now say this:

"the Claude Agent SDK and claude -p still draw from your subscription limits"

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

InsideOutSantaon The Agent SDK

I just checked, the docs now say this:

"the Claude Agent SDK and claude -p still draw from your subscription limits"

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

InsideOutSantaon Gemini 4 Carbon

How are you going to vet all the people in the world who make software? All you're doing is make software less secure.

I don't think I'm selfish, so that leaves me with naive or ignorant, I guess.

InsideOutSantaon The Agent SDK

Not for me, it uses subscription quota.

InsideOutSantaon The Agent SDK

Anthropic employees clarified in HN comment threads that the API credits are in addition to the existing behavior and not a replacement. Other harnesses can still call the Claude Code CLI and use the subscription quota that way.

InsideOutSantaon The Agent SDK

I wish you would explain your reasoning instead of preemptively telling people they don't know what they're talking about. Then I might actually learn something.

InsideOutSantaon MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

It's great for convertibles, but less useful for regular laptops. One great use case is mobile app development, though.

InsideOutSantaon Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine" (2025)

If you can make a headphone jack out of trinitrotoluene, you can probably convince them to add it to every smartphone sold.

InsideOutSantaon Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine" (2025)

Terrorism is a war strategy.

InsideOutSantaon Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine" (2025)

It's quite literally terrorism. Telling people "we can blow people up anywhere in the world" is intended to make people afraid. It's deliberately creating a climate of fear. That's what terrorism is.

InsideOutSantaon 188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

It's kinda wild that the people in this picture will probably be remembered and seen for millennia, and they never knew about their own importance.

InsideOutSantaon Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model

> they simply document something that happened, and what happened is genuinely quite concerning

Is it, though? If one weird thing happening once is the threhold for when we should be concerned, we should be concerned about literally every model ever released.

InsideOutSantaon GPT-6.1 Terra

If you trust these benchmarks, I'd argue that there's almost never a reason to use anything other than Terra 6.1 xhigh.

InsideOutSantaon GPT-6.1 Terra

You're just not paying attention. If you run copilot in copilot using copilot effort, it performs much better than copilot in copilot using copilot effort. This is clearly explained if you visit copilot.com using copilot and then search for copilot.

InsideOutSantaon ChatGPT Keeps Telling People 404 Media Can Solve Their Tech Support Problems

All the spam this generates probably sucks for 404 Media, but the underlying problem is that ChatGPT is right. If you have any kind of problem with these overgrown, understaffed companies, your only chance is to get media attention.

Apple famously put "if you run to the press and trash us, it never helps" into their App Store Guidelines for developers, but the only reason they did have to do that is because it's a lie. Running to the press is the only thing that helps, which is why people do it.

InsideOutSantaon JetBrains Thinkrail

> You only need an agent to click things long enough to build an API on top of the thing it's clicking on

To be clear, it clicks things to do things like test software. If you build an API, you're not testing if the clicking actually works.

InsideOutSantaon OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

What value has market share if switching costs are close to zero, and alternatives continue to be available?

Grabbing market share by making losses only helps if it actually wins you a genuine monopolistic market position.

InsideOutSantaon OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

I can't believe the actual answer is so far down the thread. All praise to our overlord DeepSeek for ironically helping American labs make cached tokens much cheaper.

InsideOutSantaon JetBrains Thinkrail

Yeah, now that agents are doing most of the work, and we want to give them as much freedom as possible to run code, take screenshots, click on things, etc, it really doesn't make much sense to have a setup where all of this happens on your local computer. IMO it makes more sense to have this hosted somewhere, and then have UIs that make this visible to you on your devices.

InsideOutSantaon What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us

Current models do well with proprietary systems they were never trained on. Ar most you need a good AGENTS.md and a directory full of skills.

InsideOutSantaon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

What your argument is missing is that I'll ship security issues that would have been caught otherwise.

You're assuming that these won't matter because attackers might not have better models than I do, but that doesn't make sense. The assumption that attackers can't find the issues because I didn't find them at release is wrong. Even if they never get better models (which they will), current models might find flaws I missed, and they also have other means of finding flaws in my software.

The best defense is to make software as secure as possible regardless of assumed attacker capabilities at the point of release.

InsideOutSantaon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

Yes, if you just look at API pricing, the cost is about on par with its capabilities. The problem is that we all use subscriptions, and when you compare subscription pricing, Kimi is much pricier than pretty much all of their competitors, including Chinese ones.

InsideOutSantaon Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

Since you've volunteered as tribute, give it a shot and let us know if the quota has improved.