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This is why Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing for more “regulation”. You can’t show ROI to investors by cutting inference costs.

Regulation might inconvenience them a little, but the upside is huge if it means open models out of China get banned.

Some of the best uses of AI in call centres that I’ve seen focus on improving human interaction instead of getting rid of it. For example:

- Finding information in the background / performing an account health check instead of putting the caller on hold for 20 minutes.

- Helping newer consultants find the same offers experienced staff know about amongst 200 pages of active/targeted offers.

- Automatically documenting calls so when someone calls back, they don’t get a “sorry, I can’t find any notes about that on your account”.

- Giving the offshore call center consultant a customized script based on the active discussion instead of a generic one

(Yes, reading from a script is still bad, but at least this makes it somewhat more natural rather than it feeling like you’re talking to a lobotomised employee.)

100% agree. I think OAI is too, but more subtly.

Both have taken huge amounts of investment money, and those shareholders will come knocking for their returns at some point.

They make money on token use, but that’s hard to do when China is launching models that are 80-90% as capable, cost 1/10th, and can be deployed for “free”.

I imagine they’re also pissed that most of the Chinese models are distilled from their own (the irony being that they scraped the entire internet to train their own ones).

My 2c: Anthropic/OAI have taken 10s of billions of dollars of investment - and there needs to be a return on that investment at some point.

They make their money on token burn. They can’t do that if they’re competing with something that’s 80-90% as capable, but 1/10th of the cost (with the option of deploying it yourself for “free”).

They actually mention this at the end of their post on Pi Durable[0]: > Why TypeScript again? Because it is the easiest way to bootstrap this. But as everybody knows by now, it's very easy to port everything to Rust or assembler. We're not ruling this out in the future, but at the moment we are focusing on TypeScript.

[0]: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-durable/

The 30 years of pension is a bit ridiculous. Why not make the requirement scale with the applicant’s age?

Someone applying for PR at 30 has far more time to contribute than someone applying for PR at 50.

Your comment technically does as well. Downvote the comment and move on. Leave the policing up to dang and the other mods.

It is evident (in my opinion) as to what the comment was talking about. I personally switched away from all Claude models recently for the same reason.

If this can largely automate the backup and update side of things, then it seems like a great middle ground for people like me:

I’m trying to self-host as much of my stuff as possible, but don’t have time to tinker like I used to. Hence updates, backups (etc) fall by the wayside in favour of “set and forget”.

35. Almost the same position as you!

Personally, before doing anything else, I would take at least 3-4 weeks and have a proper break. It will take you at least 1-2 weeks to get out of “work mode”.

Stop thinking about work, ideas, the next thing, etc. Get off social media, HN, Reddit etc. Try and distance yourself from all of the things that may have contributed to the burnout in the first place.

I’d probably do some travel in that time - maybe a week or two going to a country I haven’t been to before.

Once I was back, I’d then start to consider my next move with (hopefully) a fresher and clearer mindset.

You’re absolutely right to be hopeful. Three honest possibilities, and I’ll be straight with you about each:

1. It overthinks — Just like the previous iteration. High confidence. 2. It doesn’t overthink — Improvement from the last model for your use case. Regression for others. 3. It sometimes overthinks — Best case all around. A feature, not an impairment.

One final thing worth mentioning: (I made myself irrationally angry writing this)

I remember having it drilled into me in High School that unless you did well on your finals:

1. You wouldn’t get the score you needed to get into a good University and/or accepted into the course you wanted. 2. If you didn’t get into that course, you wouldn’t be able to do <x> for a career. 3. If you DID get into the course you wanted, it needed to be at a top University (which of course required an even higher entry score) or else you’d find it hard to get a job afterwards.

Imagine all of that stress: Telling 16-18 year olds that unless you ace your tests, you won’t be able to do what you want to in life.

Research, analytics, usage trends, etc. All still incredibly valuable for a company building and tuning an LLM; even if the data itself isn’t directly used in the training set.

If you didn’t take the time to write it, why should anyone take the time to read it?

This is cool!

While most of the industry focuses on the frontier of “intelligence” (function), a release like this represents the frontier of the other end of the spectrum (form).

Both are important if we ever want to see “Opus-level” capability running locally on commodity machines in the future.

Competition is a wonderful thing. $1.20 per 1M output is crazy, but let’s also not forget that OpenAI was one of the first to start increasing model prices ~10-12 months ago.

GPT-5 cost $10 (per 1M output)

They still have to pay back those hundreds of billions of investment dollars somehow.

The best thing any developer can do today is to make their app LLM/provider agnostic (or use an LLM gateway) to avoid lock-in.

Slower/more verbose in my experience too. However, still self-hostable which is a major plus!

To save people a click (output price per 1M tokens): GPT 5.6 Luna: Was $6.00. Now $1.20

GPT 5.6 Terra: Was $15.00. Now $12.00.

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I wonder if this is an alternative (and better) revenue stream vs ads for search engines: Offer a competing web search for LLMs as an alternative to Google, and charge enterprises and LLM providers for it.

I know Brave do this already. Not sure about DDG (I wonder if their agreement with Bing would allow it?)

The fact that these Chinese models are getting close to “Opus-grade” despite costing 6x-8x less is huge.

As the token bills start to come in, those economics will be harder to ignore (regardless of the origin of the LLM); especially as there will be many CIOs sweating over their quick and costly AI initiatives showing little ROI.

My hope is that the EU also steps up their own competition in the frontier model space so that it’s not just China v USA.

I read the same thing! As someone that has followed Rossmann for years now, I am beyond disappointed that he would do something like this.

I could understand if it was drug smuggling, but maple syrup? That crossed the line for me.

I hope Louis can pull himself together and come back from this.

“Working as intended” one might even say.

This is really interesting! Congrats on the Series A!

Are there any plans to offer a simple/configurable WAF either as an included feature or as an optional add-on?

EDIT: Removed one of my questions as it’s answered on the website, and apparently I need to learn to read.

The duality of man: I actually like them!

(To be clear: I am no fan of OpenAI)

Next they’ll slowly reduce how much CC usage you can get out of the $100 Max plan, then introduce a new $300 “Max Plus” plan with “40x” usage. “You asked, and we listened: Introducing Max Plus, our biggest plan yet, designed for those…” blah blah

I use Arch btw.

Next they’ll slowly reduce how much CC usage you can get out of the $100 Max plan, then introduce a new $300 “Max Plus” plan with “40x” usage.

“You asked, and we listened: Introducing Max Plus, our biggest plan yet, designed for those…” blah blah

DDLC is one of those once in a lifetime gaming experiences. Like most people commenting - I had no interest in the style or genre, but I am immensely glad I played it!

I distinctly remember sitting there in silence with my mouth open at a number of points during the game.

I went down the ~~MONIKA~_ route, though I was intrigued by %]~JUST_MONIKA%]€_ - She seemed like an interesting character.

Cool app. It takes a lot of courage to share here, so well done. I’d definitely highlight a bit more prominently what languages it supports though. The interface is very “Claude” so I’d be keen to hear about:

- How did you go about developing this?

- Was the entire thing vibe coded or just part of it? No shade either way, just curious.

- How long did it take?

- What were some of the harder hurdles to overcome?

- Given the use of AI, what’s your approach to security of your users data? How did you review any generated code?

Wow the opening to this could have been written by me!

Solitude in your 30s (particularly as a DINK or SINK household) is dangerously addictive.

No need to leave the house… but it does lead one to feel disconnected more broadly over a prolonged period.

They’ll have to pry WFH out of my cold, dead hands; but I must say, the times I do travel to the office and spend a day chatting with people are incredibly energising (though also very unproductive!)