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Definitely apples to oranges, sorry I wasn’t clear. I only included opus pricing for comparison—it is vastly superior. But even 3.1 flash lite is really useful.

Of course, if I manage to reach my limits every week on my Claude $200 sub, opus 4.7 is probably priced closer to flash!

3.1 flash lite — $0.25/$1.50 — plus insanely fast.

3.1 flash lite isn’t quite as good as 3 flash preview (which is the most incredible cheap model… I really love it) — but 3.1 is half the price and the insane speed opens up different use cases.

For comparison, Opus models are $5/$25

Like thinking LLMs aren’t magic* because you utter “it’s just predicting the next token!” I’d argue, only slightly tongue in cheek, that thinking of LLMs as magical leads to more effective use than the predicting-next-token explanation.

See also Frank Keil’s “illusion of explanatory depth.”

* magic not as “unreal,” but in the classical conception of a living magic world where mental intentions can manifest physical realities

Imagining the giant solar lily pads that can create enormous hydrogen platforms in the sky.

It’s a way to suck all the money out of the room in the name of nationalism — and it’s all over Europe. Only idea everyone has had.

I teach students to use their own imagination like generative AI. Prompting works. They just need a bit of practice.

These days, website or service “usability” means that Claude code can do it for you.

Is that… what?? Is this technical innuendo?

Hope someone will explain this

European civil servants are also usually banned from using AI — perhaps with the exception of Microsoft copilot. They live in a bubble where they just don’t know. This goes for most academics as well.

I love em dashes. They are so much less pretentious than colons or semicolons — and they help with flow of speech. I learned that key command a couple years ago and it made me feel so smart. I’ve had my comeuppance but I’m not stopping — just a better way to write

Ethanol is food— you also don't need carbs, but they do keep you alive. More importantly, it fairly central to cultural vitality. Not essential but it plays a highly functional role. Maybe could be replaced by religion or other drugs, but short of that, the world is less vibrant without it.

Sunlight is a carcinogen

“European AI tax to pay creatives”

Love that idea.

I've only had to do a major token optimization once. It reduced my memory, claude.md, mcps, etc... that's usually the big issue. but of course it gets dumber without the context of the tools but smarter with the cleaner window. so you have to find your balance.

But like most challenges with claude, if you can just express them clearly, there are usually ways of optimizing further

"Hey Claude, can you help me create a strategy to optimize my token use so I don't run into limits so often?" --> worked for me! I had two $200 plans before and now I am cool despite all day use

I've been wanting to start an alchemical spirits company in Amsterdam. Does anyone have experience in this space?

you are saving lives, friend.

On the other hand, "magical new systems that provide almost unlimited capacity for intelligent work" is probably a more functional mental model. Genie can give you 1000 wishes till you reach your session limit.

Doesn’t it all look like child’s play though?

yeah where did that come from? It's like attributing the cartesian coordinate plane to Descartes -- when actually it was a textbook author who came up with the modern one...

I’m literally wearing that tshirt right now…

“Don’t code yet” is a longstanding part of the rapport

It’s only an imperfect vaccine — broad immune protection. Evolution probably has come up with a bunch of these.

My timbers are shivering.

These days, command line offers way better usability and accessibility (because Claude Code can do it). Whenever I have to use a GUI I’m like uuughgh…

Am I the only one who thinks like this?

I easily go through two pro max $200/m accounts and yesterday got a third pro account when I ran out.

It’s worth it, but I know they aren’t making money on me. But, of course I’m marketing them constantly so…

“The impotence of naive idealism in the face of economic incentives.”

“The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines. Notably, it’s common to now talk about ASI instead, implying we may have already achieved AGI, almost without noticing.”

Amen

AI;DR

My point is that Claude might easily be about 50x more energy intensive than normal ChatGPT prompting.