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habosaon Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders

Sure but I can get ZDR on a Team plan, on the personal plans they train on your data.

habosaon Goldman Sachs Is Pulling Claude Code from Its Bankers and Traders

Nice that the header image is AI slop where one of the bankers has an arm coming out of his back. Helps drive home the message.

habosaon Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders

Those personal plans are hard to manage. As an administrator I can't control settings across the org if everyone is on their own plan which means people may be giving sensitive code/data away to Anthropic or sketchy connectors without my knowledge.

So most businesses at least use the Anthropic Team plan, which is $25 or $125 but isn't as generous as the personal max plans. Overage is API rates. Almost all of our devs are over the allotment most months.

habosaon GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview

Actually the inspiration was Google's other code review tool: Critique. This is the primary code review tool use for Google's monorepo. Gerrit has a lot of the same things though, so it's definitely Gerrit-like as well.

habosaon GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview

This is a major improvement and still not great. I made CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) 6+ years ago just because the PR page on GitHub is so bad and I felt the urge to make it better.

IMO the correct design is pretty simple: - Everything on one page, information dense - Focus on code and unresolved discussions, maybe CI checks - Keyboard navigation

Graphite gets pretty close! But it's become cluttered over the years. CodeApprove is far from perfect too (it's been a while since I worked on the UX much) but I'd hope GitHub could do a little better.

habosaon Conductor is joining Meta

The changelog is truly hilarious:

> Conductor Cloud goes read-only on November 13 and shuts down on November 20.

3 sentences later

> Add your own completion sounds in Settings → General. Pick a sound file, name it, and choose it like any other sound.

If you're shutting down in *9 days* I really don't care that you added custom sound effects.

habosaon Anthropic's growth just flattened

Opus 5.5 is amazing and has also dropped our bill dramatically. Our engineers are spending 1/3 as much as they were before and seem actually happier with the results.

Has anyone else seen this?

habosaon Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

It's quite good and the labs are definitely scared, that's why they are lowering API prices and continuing to subsidize subscription plans aggressively to keep anyone from using this stuff.

That said, has anyone else found DS models to be unpolished? They seem to "lose their mind" a lot more often than Claude/GPT. I have tried all of the top open source models that came out over the past ~4 months or so and the GLM models (5.2, 5.3, and 5.3-Flash) have been much more usable for me. They feel like Opus but X months ago, DS feels like something else.

habosaon The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

Fwiw I work at a company where engineers use AI heavily to produce the majority of work outputs but we also have a Slack that's just as lively as ever and plenty of evidence of humanity. Your experience sounds bad and you may be able to find a better one! It's not all bad everywhere.

habosaon Economic policy for AGI

Scares me. When the ruling class get robots servants they will have no need for even simple human interaction anymore and that will truly unleash them to do harm.

habosaon DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model

DeepSeek models have such good benchmark performance, amazing pricing, and the team over there seems to be widely considered impressive.

I just haven't found them to be very good? I've had a ton more success with the GLM models (since 5.2 anyway). Maybe I'm just holding it wrong, DS models seem to get stuck in loops or tell me nonsense. GLM feels like budget Claude.

habosaon The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

Making Android apps was my introduction to publishing software. I remember in ~2011-2012 you could upload an APK and it would be published immediately and the Android Market had a "New" page which was just a chronological feed of recently published or updated apps. Just uploading your app update was an easy way to get ~500 free downloads which I found very exciting.

At the time I couldn't imagine paying $99 for an Apple Developer account and waiting a week to publish my app...

habosaon So you want to use OpenRouter?

We're very happy with OpenRouter in production, although we use it in a pretty limited fashion. We have only ~10 providers allowlisted (based on their location and ZDR policies) and we use only a few models, often frontier models. Has been very reliable for us in production so far. It's generally been great for us to be able to have a single place to manage spend, policies, view logs, etc. Also really nice in code to have a single-line change for switching models. OpenRouter's console is so much better than what you get from the actual frontier labs, and it's nice not to have to translate numbers and concepts across providers.

habosaon Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

Does anyone have any recommendations for something like Cursor but more open? Cursor's harness is so much faster than anything else I've used that I just can't give it up, using Claude Code feels like being on 0.25x speed. Also I do like the IDE-style UI, being able to highlight code in a file editor and then quickly add that to my chat (Cmd-L) is really nice and much more difficult in CLI based harnesses.

Right now I think GPT 5.6 Luna is by far the most cost effective model, so this change is effectively kicking me off of Cursor.

habosaon Cerebras CS-4

GLM 5.3 is "only" 753B parameters. Much much smaller.

habosaon Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

There really has never been another product priced like AI is being priced right now. Each of these things has been done before, but all of them together is new.

1. Insanely discounted starter plans. Claude $200/mo plan is like $5k-$8k of API rate usage.

2. Very limited cost visibility, they make it hard to figure out where you spent money (unless you're on the enterprise plan which is for people with unlimited money).

3. Nobody, not even the model provider, knows what your request will cost before it returns. You're writing a blank check every time you hit enter.

4. When you run out you run out very suddenly and disruptively. It's very hard to tell a developer on the 28th of the month "sorry, code by hand until the 1st of next month" so you tend to grant exceptions.

5. The price is changing all the time. New models come in, old models come out, prices change, caching behavior changes, harnesses change, etc. The cost of doing a single task is not predictable even if the task does not change.

6. Basically no volume discounting. Anthropic offered us 2% off for committing to $1M+ per year at API rates.

I manage AI spend for my team at work and I try really hard to keep costs under control but it's absolutely herding cats. Much harder than any other spending I've ever had to manage at work.

habosaon Our position on open-weights models

Anthropic's run as the AI Good Guys lasted ... 6 months? Hope they had fun. Turns out there aren't any AI good guys. Every single one of these companies engages in all the same BS. At least with open weights models we (the users) get to keep something when the whole thing collapses.

habosaon Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

These tools are explicitly marketed as a way for non-technical people to code. If we expect those same people to understand sandboxing we're dreaming.

habosaon Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future

Apple has totally failed to deliver interesting AI experiences so far ... and I still think they're going to be the dominant provider of AI in 5 years. We're just one or two advances in chips / models / both away from being able to run very good local models for free on mid-tier Apple devices. The privacy, cost, and latency story there will be too much for OpenAI/Anthropic/Google to beat.

Just writing this down so I can be praised/mocked in 5 years.

habosaon Google copybara: moving code between repositories

Codeapprove creator here! I made it to fill the exact gap you're lamenting, and I still think that gap exists. For a while it seemed like Graphite was going to be the answer but over time they ended up focusing more on the AI angle and less on human review tooling and now it feels just as cluttered and slow as anything else.

I home some other Xoogler comes along and delivers a Critique build for 2026, I still think there's a need!

habosaon Tidal AI Policy

Makes sense for them as a business, but still a bummer to have AI music mixed in with human music at all. To me there is literally no point to AI music. Music is communication. The artist is communicating with the listener through a pretty unique and magical asynchronous medium. AI (as we know it today) can't meet that bar and so it does not meet my definition of music.

habosaon Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

In the long run I truly believe local AI will win and Apple will be the world's most important AI company because of these chips. Imagine something like today's Opus running for free and in complete privacy on your local machine with a beautiful Apple UX on top. For most tasks for most people, that's a much better proposition than a frontier model in the cloud you have to pay for and send all your data to and that only works when you're online.

habosaon GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

At work we use Anthropic models and have basically no limits. So I am very familiar with what Opus can do. I also see the bills, I know what it costs.

At home I make a point of trying other models / tools on my side projects. So I've been using OpenCode and trying tons of models via OpenRouter. I tried Kimi, Deepseek, MiMo, etc.

GLM 5.2 is a _major_ step up from every other non-GPT/Claude/Gemini model I've tried. It's not as good as latest Claude Opus, but it feels every bit as good as Opus from ~4 months ago at a fraction of the price.

To me this model is the "it just works" moment for open weights models. We had this for closed weights models in late 2025 when Opus 4.5 landed. This is the same feeling I'm having with GLM 5.2. It's 90% as good as what I get from Anthropic for 1/5th of the cost and without any concern of lock-in.

habosaon The AirPods Effect

The most jarring thing to me is seeing how kids (high school and college age) use Airpods now. I will see a group of friends hanging out in public and none of them take their Airpods out! They are talking and socializing, but they feel no need to remove the Airpods from their ears when nothing is playing. They're frictionlessly moving between real life conversation and content on their phones. This includes situations where you really think you'd want to take the Airpods out, like playing pickup basketball.

I don't know how to feel about this. I guess I'm happy that they're out of their house at all, but it does feel very sci-fi. In sci-fi books a common trope is for characters in the future to have neural implants that seamlessly and permanently connect them to some mega-internet. 24/7 Airpods is like the caveman version of that.

habosaon I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

How much of the "financial gravity" do you attribute to VCs?

I've noticed that VCs try very hard to separate the world into "VCs + founders" and "everyone else" and that the more time a founder spends in the VC+founders bubble the more distorted their worldview can become.

habosaon CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs

I saw someone on Xitter say "Any CEO who wants to replace jobs with AI should first have to replace their own assistant with AI" and I think that's the perfect rule. Every AI demo is some version of a personal assistant, surely AI can do that job right?

I think we'd get zero volunteers from CEOs who have assistants.

(Note: this is not meant to be an insult to human assistants! I think they do a valuable job and should not be replaced by AI either).

habosaon Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

This feels more like AI delusion, but I do worry about AI psychosis (which we're seeing in smaller numbers). People literally losing their ability to make sense of reality due to talking to AI all day.

We all know that celebrities/athletes frequently end up demonstrating psychotic behavior in public. Us normal people commonly attribute that to the distorting power of wealth and fame. When you're surrounded by "yes men" who give you only positive feedback and fans who adore you, it's easy to spin out of control.

AI means normal people can have the same experience. A constant companion that tells us we're smart and insightful, that we're making all the right decisions, that generally affirms our every belief and bias. If you spend all day talking to an AI who is _literally_ programmed to please you, I believe you'll eventually experience psychosis.

habosaon DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent

This is shockingly cheap, and by all account it's a very smart model. Is there a US-based provider for DeepSeek V4 Pro that offers a similar cost? I want to use this at work but can't justify sending company data to Chinese servers.

habosaon SpaceX S-1

https://x.com/gnoble79/status/2031757996510839191

We are the liquidity here. If you have index funds, SpaceX is going to get more of your money much faster and on better terms than any other IPO in history. Even if you love this stock and this valuation, you should find this type of retail investor manipulation disturbing.

habosaon Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks

They invented a product that has no possible cost control: you don't know how much you've used until you've used it. And then we somehow made it a virtue to use as much as possible. I can't think of a more effective money printing factory.

I wonder when we'll see our first "My startup went bankrupt on AI use" post. Amazon is being dumb but at least they can afford it.