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re-thc··on Zig v0.17.0
Anthropic levels of slowness (pacing)?
re-thc··on Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
> Sol 6.1 scores one point less than Gemini 4 on intelligence AND costs less than half ($0.72 vs $1.99) per task.

Via the API. The $200 OpenAI plan just got cut and most say general quotas got cut before that so for users on a plan the numbers might be different.

re-thc··on Claude Opus 5.5
That's a Fable / Myth(o). The name said so.
re-thc··on Claude Opus 5.5
> I don't think cache read is a big portion of the overall cost.

For long running tasks it is. That's what made Deepseek so cheap.

re-thc··on Claude Opus 5.5
IPO soon
re-thc··on Claude Opus 5.5
You bet there will be a new Fable soon.
re-thc··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
There were comparisons and Muse Spark is so very similar to Fable / Opus... so...
re-thc··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
> You refuse a direct order.

I never said. It's not about outright refuse. It's how to deliver better outcomes. It's not a win or lose situation. Don't treat it like that.

> If your boss says that he does not care about long term consequences and he want things done a certain way

As suggested in my previous comment it could be you didn't explain it well. If you say code quality they might not care. Say it will crash randomly and can't fix it then they might. There's some art to it.

> Your opinion on what you think he wants is legally irrelevant.

No it's not. So you're saying if you got told to do something illegal you'd also do it anyway? I doubt it. You need to at least cover your back and document it as such. I'd say termination is better than jail.

re-thc··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
> Where LLMs excel is in code-level bugs (as opposed to system bugs, design bugs, architecture bugs, integration bugs, etc).

Blame the benchmarks game. They're optimizing for that and that's what those things are measuring.

re-thc··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
> Work for business people who want fast results. Agentic coding gets you to something presentable much faster at the cost of code quality. I have never seen a customer or business person care about that.

That's always false. It's like people want their meals delivered fast. They say they don't care about taste or how it is done. Watch when they get sick or don't like it and the drama that happens.

People don't care until they do. They don't know what to care (in this case code quality) or say that because you're not explaining it. People also "gamble" and you take the blame. Long term impacts? Nah doesn't matter. Weeks later and things break -- what did you do?

re-thc··on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
> A high score on benchmarks is not as useful because a model overtrained to always answer will give confidently wrong responses.

It's not useful because the benchmarks often measure the wrong thing. They're here yapping about AGI and yet the benchmarks treat it like a trained dog. Fetch this. 100 points.

Each "problem" in these benchmarks likely has more than 1 solution that can be considered correct and even should be graded in many ways. Yet we see in many benchmarks higher effort (or thinking levels) don't help because the benchmark penalizes for doing "more" than what the answers asks for. So what did you ask for?

In human school you often get marks on the process and not just the end result. Thinking tokens have been cut. All we group on is things like cost, turns and time but not the what else.

re-thc··on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
It did used to use Haiku but that model is now too too far behind…
re-thc··on GPT-6 Astra
Hardware definitely has longer lifecycle than AI model releases at this point.

You don't see Nvidia and AMD fighting every other month over the latest cards.

re-thc··on OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model
Overtaken in cost per token.
re-thc··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
> DeepSWE is a very big deal

It's clearly been "dealt with" already. When it launched we had interesting gaps and definitely differences. Now every new release is "crushing it".

re-thc··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
> 4.0 Flash we will finally get Gemini 3.5 Pro

Nah, we'll just get the 4.0 Pro Preview.

re-thc··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
> Beginning to think Google is a dark horse in this race

Google was so hyped up early Gemini 3 era (only some months ago). And now dark horse? The TPU takeover almost crashed nvidia and everyone else.

re-thc··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
> people are still saying the Codex limits are more generous. They're not

They are if you follow Tibo on the resets.

re-thc··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
With OpenAI you can also apply for the security program, which doesn't require you to be a certified pentester (as per Anthropic).
re-thc··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
> IMO, Codex is worse than Claude with Fable.

Fable easily trips its safe guards. You can be 95% complete with the plan for it to trip and then lose it all. Anything is better than nothing.

re-thc··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
That's load bearing!
re-thc··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
The biggest change is the price cut of course.
re-thc··on TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store
Agent scale!
re-thc··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
> Otherwise the premise for coding using LLMs is essentially untrue.

Why? Written by does not mean designed by etc. There's a lot more to it.

re-thc··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
Go has API pricing + this weird scaling of how much is it worth. Some models get $60 of usage, some $30 and some $15 etc.
re-thc··on GLM-5.3 is now open-weight
> that would prove rather embarrassing for Anthropic

Not really, in that you just work with different constraints.

Anthropic and US labs in general has maybe 100s to 1000s of GPUs per person to experiment. Zai and Chinese labs in general have 1-10.

The priorities are different.

re-thc··on AWS Acquires DuckLabs
And it could have expanded elsewhere?
re-thc··on GLM-5.3-Flash
> They should've just lead with real, up to date data, because it's good, not the silly old tactics like comparing to Opus 4.8 when 5.0 is out in many of their charts

It's what people know. Opus is just the common target.

> Smarter and cheaper than Luna xhigh, not as smart but less expensive than Luna max. Smashes deepseek v4 flash

The problem with this and DeepSWE is it goes for a very specific profile. I'm not convinced DeepSWE is any accurate in actual work. It's surely a different signal (compared to some that allow cheating) but it has its own issues, e.g. weak harness.

Luna is great at following instructions but bad instructions or anything not covered = death.

Deepseek is more analytical. Good for bug tracking.

GLM is a better all rounder in some ways. Better at creativity.

re-thc··on GLM-5.3-Flash
> The export controls were revoked before

Zai is on another "export control" list outside the broader 1. Doesn't help.

re-thc··on GLM-5.3-Flash
Which 9/10 times hasn't been great anyway (stock reaction).
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