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arnaudsm

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arnaudsm··on OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative
This is great, there are too few open-source video editing projects!

However, why do you have a waitlist for an open-source project? And why do you brag of having Databuddy analytics built-in?

Are you just a startup that's building in public and using open-source as a marketing trick before monetizing it?

arnaudsm··on The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public
Remembering the failure of Google+, I wonder if hostilely forcing a product to your users makes it less likely to succeed.
arnaudsm··on Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights?
If they become self improving, the first one would outpace all the other AI labs and capture all the economical value.
arnaudsm··on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
- https://livebench.ai/#/ + AIME + LiveCodeBench for reasoning

- MMLU-Pro for knowledge

- https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard for user preference

We only got Magistral's GPQA, AIME & livecodebench so far.

arnaudsm··on Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI
I wished the charts included Qwen3, the current SOTA in reasoning.

Qwen3-4B almost beats Magistral-22B on the 4 available benchmarks, and Qwen3-30B-A3B is miles ahead.

arnaudsm··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Basic visibility should be the default, most people never change their settings.
arnaudsm··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
On top of wasting GPU cycles, such low-contrast graphics are terrible for older users. The Apple Music navbar is hilariously unreadable and distracting.
arnaudsm··on Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
No, there's the original voice mode (4o+tts), the original AVM (4o with native audio-to-audio), the new AVM announced in this post, and the mini AVM (4o-mini with native audio-to-audio)
arnaudsm··on Updates to Advanced Voice Mode for paid users
If there's an OpenAI PM reading this: please add the model selector for voice modes. 80% of this thread is users confused about which model they're using.
arnaudsm··on Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
We are about to enter the era of aggressive LLM monetisation and anti-competitivness. We got used to cheap subsidized models, in bet in 2 years we'll pay double for the same service.
arnaudsm··on Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
Qwen3 family (and the R1 qwen3-8b distill) is #1 in programming and reasoning.

However it's heavily censored on political topics because of its Chinese origin. For world knowledge, I'd recommend Gemma3.

This post will be outdated in a month. Check https://livebench.ai and https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ for up to date benchmarks

arnaudsm··on LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
That's a lot of kilo-watt-hours wasted for a find and replace operation.

Have you heard of text.replace("—", "-") ?

arnaudsm··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
New model homepage : https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/

Old model card : https://storage.googleapis.com/model-cards/documents/gemini-...

They intentionally buried that information

arnaudsm··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
From a business pov it's a great move, for the customers it's evil to hide evidence that your product became worse.
arnaudsm··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
They should have shown the benchmarks. Or market it as a coding model, like Qwen & Mistral.
arnaudsm··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Be careful, this model is worse than 03-25 in 10 of the 12 benchmarks (!)

I bet they kept training on coding, made everything worse on the way, and tried to hide it under the rug because of the sunk costs.

arnaudsm··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
This should be the top comment. Cherry-picking is hurting this industry.

I bet they kept training on coding tasks, made everything worse on the way, and tried to hide it under the rug because of the sunk costs.

arnaudsm··on Suno v4.5
thanks, early 30s are exhausting haha
arnaudsm··on Suno v4.5
The biggest impact Generative Music had on my life was for wedding skits. Families that wanted a funny song about the bride filled with anecdotes didn't need talent anymore.

The first time I heard it, it was incredible. The 2nd wedding that did it, it started to feel boring. The 3rd time, everyone hated it.

Similar to image-generation, we're getting tired really fast of cookie-cutter art. I don't know how to feel about it.

arnaudsm··on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020
Production budget != Compute budget. Minecraft, a 15 year old game, runs at 30fps on the Quest2, which will make anyone instantly sick.

Although I've had a blast on Minecraft in PCVR (but you need strong VR legs)

arnaudsm··on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost over $60B Since 2020
400h+ VR gamer too, I disagree on "no crazy graphics". The Standalone strategy of leaving PCVR made VR accessible, but killed game innovation entirely. The entire industry was downgraded graphically of 2 entire generations. Sure, there are wizards like StressLevelZero that can ship beautiful games on Quest, but most studios cannot.

I wish they hadn't abandonned PCVR, and kept pushing the boundaries of the medium like Valve did with Alyx.

arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
It's probably a combination of both innovation and quality. Respecting your users matters.
arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
It's the pressure of the investors that leads to enshittification. Bootstraped and family businesses are less likely to do it.
arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
You're correctly describing the most common mindset in tech entrepreneurs. Chasing the last shiny trend instead of caring about quality.

Apple is the best example that doing the opposite can be immensely successful.

arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
I agree, the monopolistic practices are concerning, especially against the open internet.
arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
That's a scary scenario but you may be right
arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
Schumpeter's cycle of destructive creation usually takes 15 years in software.

IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook. They were all the cool underdogs for a decade, then slowly decline in quality.

arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
Good question, AI coding is currently limited by how fast you can review it. I still see Gemini 2.5 Pro output insane vulnerabilities once in a while.

You may get a 2x speedup, but humans are still the bottleneck.

arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
I meant popularity. My brand new Win11 laptop freezes or crashes all the time. My relatives laptops too. It's slower every year, even on high-end hardware.
arnaudsm··on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis
Users have inertia, it takes years for superior products to win.

VC capital is useful for speed & innovation, but most of the time leads to bloat & rent-seeking. Does DocuSign need 7,000 employees? My journey of bootstrapped entrepreneurship has been much more sustainable and respectful to my users.

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