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m_keon Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

you can use these in hermes, cursor, openclaw, opencode, etc with 2 lines of config that claude code will happily do for you if you ask

GLM 5.2, deepseek 4 Flash and the newly released Hy3 are Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 4.6 level models at a tiny fraction of the cost.

I'm on the $200 claude plan and blew through my weekly limits with Fable in a day, then ended up wasting $20 with opus 4.8 overages in an hour to finish out work in active sessions. Since then I've been using GLM 5.2 with openrouter + opencode and am spending less than $5/day for equivalent output.

m_keon Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps

It's looking like Anthropic is realizing that they're about to get squeezed so they need to juice revenue for their IPO before it becomes obvious to everyone else.

Open models like GLM 5.2 are getting good enough to handle 90% of tasks, and will eat most of their usage unless they start serving it at cost. And on the 1% work they fearmongered their way into falling under government control, which will limit how much they can commercialize the frontier.

Nobody will keep paying their premiums and put up with their BS when they can have similar models at cost of inference in any harness that they want.

m_keon Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?

I mostly use claude code on mobile and desktop with remote sessions and do most of my coding on the go now.

I have been tempted to distill something like GLM 5.2 into a smaller html + css only model for super fast interactive UI editing, because right now it's really annoying to do with large slow models. I'm sure it would be doable to do the same for individual language / frameworks, including potentially doing a final few steps on your own code base with some LoRAs that could be kept up to date to avoid having the model have to explore the code base each time.

Doing UI work with composer 2.5 and live reload is a way different experience than slogging through it with opus 4.8

m_keon Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]

i love when these errors bust my long running sessions and render them unusable

m_keon OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon

until it doesn't.

scaling laws are a power law, you can only stay ahead for so long when each minor improvement gets exponentially more expensive

m_keon Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

see elevenlabs as a prime example

m_keon Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update

more like 0, once they get AGI they'll capture all value themselves or sell to highest bidders

m_keon The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"

So just a typical dropshipper

m_keon DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked

just think of what could someone do if they got into your personal email account?

m_keon New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike

No these fascists will celebrate this as not being woke, this is just them defending "the west" from muslims...

m_keon Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

Guess who is running product and other related functions at OpenAI and Anthropic now

m_keon Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence

having been an early employee and founder of a few startups and then working at a few larger companies, most people who only ever worked at FAANG have no idea how much more productive tiny teams with ownership are.

m_keon Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk

I think the DNC and the media might need to get some of that blame for being empty vessels for corporate interests that allowed this conman to get elected twice

m_keon Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk

Don't blame the voters, they didn't get to pick her and did not run her campaign.

m_keon Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk

We can all thank the VCs and CEOs who fully embraced and enabled this administration

m_keon Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal

Imagine if OpenAI fails one day and sells to a company like Palantir. What would happen to all of the sensitive data that they're sitting on?

m_keon The whole thing was a scam

It's more than that, supposedly Sama donated another 25mil through a PAC.

I'm sure the Crypto AI Czar (David Sacks) being a major Anthropic hater didn't hurt either

Or that Kushner put a billion in OpenAI recently

EDIT: wow they got in at a huge discount too and OpenAI bought stake in Thrive...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/thrive-capital-bought-shares-in...

https://openai.com/index/thrive-holdings/

m_keon The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

answer my questions

also heres some nice footage of markets in warsaw ghetto for you https://youtu.be/a2a5qRkOqP4?si=twZ9zFYL3xh6Ms0h

as a Pole its sad to see so many jews get behind a fascist like Bibi. living in NYC i don't feel safer today and i don't see how the whole world turning on israel is good for jews long term

Trump shredding NATO and taking our random world leaders is also not making countries like Poland safer

m_keon The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

yes poor israel with it's nukes and iron dome is being oppressed by a bunch of women and children living in an open prison

now please tell me what you'd like to see happen with the remaining palestinians and what you expect to happen in the middle east after you destabilize another major country in the region

m_keon The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

if you slaughter civilians and label all males as combatants you conveniently get a near 50% militant death rate

don't play dumb, there's a reason israel is not letting foreign media into gaza and slaughtering local journalists at a rate never seen in history of war

m_keon The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

50% as in the barely armed males that were killed like fish in a barrel

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...

> Women, children (ie, younger than 18 years), and older people (ie, older than 64 years) comprised 56·2% (95% CI 50·4–61·9) of violent deaths

m_keon The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

You forgot the genocide they have going and the current attempt to starve Cuba into submission with their little "blockade"

m_keon OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network

don't forget that Sama is a Thiel protege

m_keon Layoffs at Block

It's going to get really ugly, Jason Lemkin called this out as a possibility a few hours ago: https://youtu.be/mBE_9vGJBUM?si=WSyZXYgV48WfrNrv&t=2908

We're about to see a lot of public SAAS companies do the same and rebrand as "AI" first

m_keon Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

If OpenAI employees have an inch of spine left, they better demand Sama to take the same stance on this as Dario. No mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons.

m_keon Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot

we should probe anthropic for what accounts they made to access third party data, or which proxies they use to circumvent scraping blockers

m_keon How Will OpenAI Compete?

1. Compete directly with their highest margin API customers

2. Buy up real businesses with the billions of equity and cash that they're raising

3. Lobby the government for regulations to stifle competition

4. Beg for a bailout or 0% loans when the music stops

5. Follow the Zuck playbook of copying competitors, spying on their users, spamming and addicting them, then squeezing the whales out of everything that they have (there's a reason why Anthropic and OpenAI have a bunch of Facebook execs leading their product groups)

m_keon AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

i've been working in this field for a very long time, i promise you, if you can collect a dataset of a task you can train a model to repeat it.

the models do an amazing job interpolating and i actually think the lack of extrapolation is a feature that will allow us to have amazing tools and not as much risk of uncontrollable "AGI".

look at seedance 2.0, if a transformer can fit that, it can fit anything with enough data

m_keon AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

It's the new underpaid employee that you're training to replace you.

People need to understand that we have the technology to train models to do anything that you can do on a computer, only thing that's missing is the data.

If you can record a human doing anything on a computer, we'll soon have a way to automate it

m_keon Gemini 3.1 Pro

this is mostly because RLVR is driving all of the recent gains, and you can continue improving the model by running it longer (+ adding new tasks / verifiers)

so we'll keep seeing more frequent flag planting checkpoint releases to not allow anyone to be able to claim SOTA for too long