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thewhitetulip··on Claude Fable 5.2 scores 65 on Artificial Analysis, highest so far
Considering tokenmaxxing is over and budgets are getting tightened everywhere, what's the use case for fable? Who will use it? Possibly FAANG? Or firms like Apple who have 200 $ per day budget
thewhitetulip··on 370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI
I have a very simple ideology here: if you don't bother to write your book, I won't bother to read it
thewhitetulip··on 370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI
It takes me 1 year to write a book (fiction and non fiction alike)

2 books per week is still absolutely insane

thewhitetulip··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
I am curious. How do people figure this out?

I use Sonnet 5.5 daily and Opus rarely. My usage is also a little involved as in I do all the design and strategy and get Sonnet to just write the code

For that, Sonnet has been consistent

I use Opus or Fable when it's a dumpster fire situation where we have no time to think even

So far I've never had an issue with Sonnet even.

thewhitetulip··on Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget
Makes it a whole lot worse doesn't it? My Fedora boots under a second in my extremely old and cheap HP. Meanwhile MacOS introducing new bugs and Liquid Glass that hung my m1 air
thewhitetulip··on Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget
Crap. 200 a month!!! They better rewrite MacOS in Rust then lol
thewhitetulip··on Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget
$ 200 a month and yet new releases of Mac are not upto the mark. Very strange
thewhitetulip··on YC's Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens
Why put an agent to sleep? Store their memory in a file and kill the agent

Resume it later.

thewhitetulip··on Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
Have you guys got AI ads for Tai Chi Walking thst supposedly melts fat in 45 days by just walking?
thewhitetulip··on OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
They said that they have millions of lines of PRs merged daily

Pretty sure they don't know this has happened lol

Maybe they'll raise a new PR with 1000000 lines to revert back now that you guys leaked the information

thewhitetulip··on Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks
Well rules stopped mattering to BigCo many hears ago
thewhitetulip··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
> you can learn arithmetic without memorizing your multiplication tables

How? If you don't learn multiplication tables you're multiplying on the go. And that's inefficient

Also, this isn't the right analogy. I get where you're coming from.

We move on to the higher form. Like we don't need to code in binary, or assembly language We got C, Python. We then got compilers.

But LLMs are just english. There is no skill here in writing the prompt. "Give me a crud app that does xyz" is hardly a skill

Tomorrow if AI data centers fail then what do we do of the typing skills?

When we shifted from Assembly to Compiled languages or to Python. We still had to learn something else

Here, using AI, its just English.

thewhitetulip··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
> I don't think being a good driver needs you to have already been a good cyclist.

It's an established fact by now that if you know coding then you can get better output from Sonnet than vibe coders can from Opus

thewhitetulip··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
Exactly. How hard is it to understand for people?

If you don't ride your bicycle for years and years because you can just write "drive yourself"

Then your skills are atrophying. Typing isn't a skill

thewhitetulip··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
An honest post mortem will come any day now... Any day post the IPO probably
thewhitetulip··on “AI Skills” are worthless in 2026
AI skills is more of a writing skill. People, for the most part, don't know how to write well
thewhitetulip··on Is my data used for model training?
Lol people are giving feedback?!?!

Talk about Actively training your replacement

Just go and poison data on Reddit. I opened a Flock camera and it had a diamond coating inside! Their website doesn't contain this hidden gem of an information

thewhitetulip··on GPT-6.1 Terra
And every month there are new

I still don't know which gpt model to use! Anthropic one I know as its simple.

Here its gettung weird

thewhitetulip··on Anthropic S-1
They're here in the thread. Are you not seeing them?
thewhitetulip··on Anthropic S-1
Also if they really crack AGI they're not going to provide it for 200$ a month lol

They won't be able to control saud AGI. Ref Ultron

thewhitetulip··on Anthropic S-1
This is hilarious lol
thewhitetulip··on iPhone Duo Teardown
This is a samsung issue or so I've heard. I am yet to buy one. Waiting for costs to go down

Moto screen is good enough and has a full screen, not a dummy one

Also the point about the screen being too small - that's the point! I don't want to use Android and get sucked into 10 different apps. The small screen is perfect. Useless for anything beyond clock and phone and whatsapp maybe

thewhitetulip··on iPhone Duo Teardown
For flip phones the payoff is that its small.

We've been asking for a small phone for so long now

And then now we have one. But its too costly. I'm waiting for the cost to come down

For foldable phones the factor is that you have a phone and a small tab all in one.

thewhitetulip··on Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates
"You don't question the elders" has nothing to do with socialism
thewhitetulip··on Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
There are companies whose "rogue" agents have hacked 6 7 companies and at least 2 3 govts. They haven't faced any consequences at all! They actually hacked into those companies

And there is you who is taking responsibility for an embargo you did not know about!!

thewhitetulip··on Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark
Amd we fot a real life example
thewhitetulip··on Demographic "doomsday" misses the mark
Exactly!! During my childhood I used to be terrified if population explosion

Now that I have a kid, there is doom over population shrinkage

Sadly this will be used by propagandaists to doubt scientists

thewhitetulip··on Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
Outnof curiosity: if you have no dam then how do you manage water for the country?
thewhitetulip··on Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad
Also you need to be on the same apple id on every device for it to work
thewhitetulip··on AI was great until it was not
I was wondering about this the other day Thank God OpenAI didn't come up with Docker. Otherwise we would be drinking water from bottles rhat are docker enabled
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