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Stainless has a laundry list of VC investors that overlap with Anthropic. It wouldn't surprise me if they're the ones engineering these kind of deals to shore up their books by shifting a loss-making investment inside a profitable one.

antirez running (quantized) DeepSeek V4 Pro on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 512GB of RAM:

https://bsky.app/profile/antirez.bsky.social/post/3mlzwmvlov...

It's much closer than you think. We're going to see specialized hardware in the next 24 months capable of running 2025-era frontier models. That's big.

As much as I like Valve, it's difficult to ignore how large a part they played in shifting the PC market towards F2P.

I bought TF2 with the Orange Box, and for a few years it was amazing. Then it went F2P with hats, and overnight the player base turned into a cesspit (and the hats themselves completely ruined the aesthetic that they spent years painstakingly crafting).

Slightly OT, but after using DeepSeek V4 Pro for the last few weeks, I’ve found that it’s basically on par with Opus…except when it comes to driving Blender. This isn’t even a visual issue (DS isn’t multimodal), for whatever reason Opus just understands the Blender API a lot better.

There always seem to be pockets where closed frontier models perform slightly better.

I’m not going to pretend it’s on par, it’s clearly a step behind when it comes to thinking and planning.

However, it’s a very good “doer” - if I give it a list of well-scoped tasks, I can usually rely on it to execute them all correctly.

This is why I keep a z.ai subscription as a backup.

I've been working on Mixreel, a video/motion graphics editor with integrated support for 3D visualization. I'm working with some business clients to produce instructional videos for construction, industrial fabrications, etc.

https://mixreel.ai

I was apartment hunting in Melbourne in 2015 and I was appalled at the quality of most inner-city apartments. Tiny shoeboxes, no sunlight, paper thin walls.

At the time I didn't think they should have been allowed to be built. But looking back, they probably did keep a lid on rents. A bad roof over your head is better than no roof.

I’ve never delved fully into IP law, but wouldn’t these be considered derivative works? They’re basically just reimplementing exactly the same functionality with slightly different names?

This would be different from the “API reimplementation” (see Google vs Oracle) because in that case, they’re not reusing implementation details, just the external contract.

> If they're doing it against the terms of service (and publicly so), I can't pin that one on Anthropic.

Anthropic claim that superintelligence is coming, that unaligned AI is an existential threat to humanity, and they are the only ones responsible enough to control it.

If that's your world view, why would you be willing to accept someone's word that they'll only Do Good Things with it? And not just "someone", someone with access to the world's most powerful nuclear arsenal? A contract is meaningless if the world gets obliterated in nuclear war.

“Roughly the same” != “the same”. Changing one or two words words in a contract can make a huge difference.

As a complete outsider, I genuinely believe that Dario et al are well-intentioned. But I also believe they are a terrible combination of arrogant and naive - loudly beating the drum that they created an unstoppable superintelligence that could destroy the world, and thinking that they are the only ones who can control it.

I mean if you sign a contract with the Department of War, what on Earth did you think was going to happen?

The less conspiratorial view is that the Australian government was the first to actually legislate it. Much easier for everyone else to follow in someone else's footsteps rather than being the first to take the plunge.

I think MoltenVK probably is the translation layer they're using.

I get this regularly too, it's very annoying. I've started using one git worktree per Claude session specifically to avoid this issue.

Will they be better than Opus though?

I always wanted to crunch the numbers but never got around to it, so I'm glad someone actually went and did it. YC company IPOs always smelled like pump-and-dump than a true liquidity/fundraising event, and if those numbers are correct, I was right. Or to put it another way, if someone asks "should I buy IPO shares in a YC company", the answer is "no".

> Real management work doesn't operate like this.

Don't know about Amazon but my experience with middle management is that it's exactly like that.

Brockman 2018: “The nonprofit board retains full control, and can only take actions that will further our mission. As described in our Charter (https://openai.com/charter/): that mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity.”

Brockman 2017: "Financially, what will take me to $1B?"

Brockman 2025: donates $25m to Trump.

I don't even need to state my opinion about these people, nothing more really needs to be said.

"beta invite codes traded on black markets for $7,000-$14,000"

I don't believe this.

To clarify, Kim Dotcom was arrested by NZ police and is making his way through the NZ court system. It wasn't a Maduro situation. I'm not sure he's even been extradited yet (though that's the most likely outcome).

If the reports are true, the proceeds from selling Venezuelan oil are going into his own Qatari bank account. That's third-world tinpot dictatorship right there.

> I detect if the CLI is installed and it just reuses whatever auth the user has already setup.

Isn't this what they just explicitly banned?

Probably, yes. But it's not 1997 any more, you can "code" a vanilla FPS in Unity in 15 minutes too. Games are more about artwork and design, which agents aren't great at (yet).

Claude Code + Opus 4.5 is an order of magnitude better than Gemini CLI + Gemini 3 Pro (at least, last time I tried it).

I don't know how much secret sauce is in CC vs the underlying model, but I would need a lot of convincing to even bother with Gemini CLI again.

That one's definitely annoying, but I suspect that's due to some bad initial design choices (React for a terminal app!) and I think it's definitely better than it used to be.

(2) isn't my experience at all. It's not 100% bug free but it definitely seems more stable (and faster) than I when I first used it last year.

Would be great if you could find that link.

I started playing around with beads, but when I got to the phrase "landing the plane" I started looking for simpler alternatives. So far, this looks much closer to what I want (flat files, human readable, basic syntax). Looking forward to putting it through its paces over the next few weeks.