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People are paying for Opus 5? Not just burning down tokens left after they enjoyed Fable on the sub? Amazing.

This is a story of enshittification but... I don't see any of it and neither should anyone who reads HN:

* adblocking is simple both in browser and on the dns level,

* revanced youtube allows you to even skip sponsored segments, regular ads don't deserve a mention, you will see none,

* reddit hasn't been good in forever, it's why we're here,

somehow Twitter/Spotify/YouTube/TikTok algos work just fine for me with this one simple trick: I watch the good stuff, and skip/block/mute the not-so-good stuff. This works less well on LinkedIn but it's a Microsoft product, what did you expect, really.

If you're like me, ie. on Hacker News daily, the modern Internet is a never ending series of wonders with virtually none of the inconvenience. And if on some absolute edge, you must use a website that sucks, both Claude and ChatGPT can drive a browser nowadays.

They're often directly applicable: minor bugs, inconsistencies, missing tests, commonly also stuff I already now (like some infra config details).

I do neither maths nor science with AI but in my experience most models are perfectly willing to burn tokens on a ton of sidequests at the earliest opportunity.

It's just so nice when even crazy people agree to some sane standard. Like USB c, like having dark mode, just nice.

Yes but I use separate passwords and webauthn is per domain as well.

The creds they store hold no value. These creds only give access to their system anyway. They store the email address either way so the situation is no better but less convenient.

So are companies, right?

Email 2fa otoh is the worst UX I have experienced. I curse every time Claude sends me a magic link. Absolutely hate them.

Other companies have no qualms about distilling the first. Let's hop on gear and get the market to deliver a distilled Fable that runs on a smartwatch. Sooner is better.

Yes, thank you. Maybe I am getting old but password+yubikey/webauthn was really top UX.

All IT infrastructure is a problem waiting to happen. I have backups and a rollback mechanism.

Why?

Oh, yeah. I gave Claude sudo on my AI dev machine: it commits, pushes, checks the results of pre-push tests, sudos to another user, deploys, checks the results of smoke tests, and then checks the end result.

It also has MCP access to Cloudflare. Front-end deploys on every push to main but Claude can adjust the pipeline, add environmental variables, etc.

I use Twitter daily and haven't noticed any screws. How is Elon supposedly turning them?

Mongols did it on horseback. It's mostly a matter of will/capability and no scruples.

The fondness for TEEs is mostly Moxie's and I think he's not involved with Signal anymore. But he does have an AI chat/inference based on enclaves!

https://confer.to/blog/2026/09/confidential-workers-for-priv...

Yes, very much so. It is basically a standard across the western world for politicians, journalists, whatsapp refugees... Of course there are many alternatives but most of them have most of their users here, on HN.

MacOS, iOS, Windows, Linux, Android are all made in the US and are also virtually universally used. This idea that people avoid American products is super niche.

Maybe it's because I use Molly as a secondary device (my tablet) but I never had an issue where it didn't work for weeks.

I meant the extinction part not software getting better.

OP's central rebuttal is that anxiety or fear are not evidence. This particular anxiety has been with us for thirty+ years, its proponents/sufferers weren't right before, and they don't have some new evidence now.

Hacking model is the aligned model. I don't like it when the model refuses to sidestep some throttling limit or scan my own codebase for security issues.

I want full-on exploits in my test suite. With LLMs the code going to prod should be hardened like a tank, both because exploiting became easier but more importantly because security-testing your code at every turn became easier.

You can have nightly penetration testing. You should have nighty pentests like we fuzz releases today.

Yes, benchmarks are gamed and only loosely indicative of real world performance.

Also yes, Fable is massively better than Opus. It requires significantly less instruction and specs and produces more directly mergeable code.

The improvement is obvious as soon as my Fable allotment runs out and I try to do something with Opus. Have you given the same (larger) task to Opus and Fable?

I have considered it, I've been hearing way more of it that I like and it's rationalist slop with little to no predictive power: https://foom.hyperplex.org/

I enjoy Claude Code very much, have max privately and team premium at work, but the doomer marketing and this whole regulate-while-we're-ahead spiel is extremely annoying and makes me wish Anthropic gets trounced.

Yes, I do the same with Claude Code. Create an instance on the server for a project and then can create sessions from any device, close my laptop while claude code keeps working, etc. without losing the convenience of dedicated apps.

If you ask them beforehand, you get a self-selecting sample, biasing your result. You get better results by not asking them.

Hilariously, there is no substitute for intelligence, not even another intelligence.

Humans made Stuxnet and nuclear weapons.

The core reason to enforce trademarks is not to fluff the corporation that holds it but to let the public be confident in the name. So the trademark should hold for as long as a reasonable person can be confused by the new Twitter regardless of people's dislike towards Elon.

I may be biased because I still go to Twitter via twitter.com.