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written-beyond··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
I hope you find relief from your disease.
written-beyond··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
I got our pocket god ChatGPT to fact check this discussion. No lab is profitable, it is a moonshot to expect they'll ever recover the billions frontier labs have put in behind these DCs. I never understand this argument everyone tries to make, AI is too expensive -> It will get cheaper as they scale -> AI is too cheap and not sustainable -> No it's very profitable on API -> go back to 1.

I am not an AI denier, I use it and I find it very useful. That said I can disagree with the current economics of the industry and their business model.

written-beyond··on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?
Define profit? If by profit you mean covering compute costs then yes you're correct. If by profit you mean covering spent RnD budget and future RnD budget allocations then no, by no means are any of these AI companies running at a profit.

Also these third-party providers are running magnitude smaller models than what Anthropic and OpenAI's power users expect from them. Yes the average chat message isn't being routed to the 1+ Trillion param model but people running CC or Codex on Ultra probably are. Those are objectively more expensive.

written-beyond··on A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)
It doesn't on windows FF
written-beyond··on A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)
This is the first time, in my entire life I have experienced a website overriding pinch to zoom. I couldn't pinch to zoom, just on top of pictures, which would expand the image then zoom into it.

Why would the author do that, very frustrating.

written-beyond··on Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
They're all building the "Her" companion device. It's almost like those transparent touchscreen phones you'd see in SciFi movies that every phone maker would have their research Labs working towards, Nokia morph was one of them.

Those things all look this in concept and in movies, but their practical utility in real life always seems to be lacking. I'd imagine this is the reality what everyone building companion devices are facing.

With the amount of money, RnD and engineers these firms have this seems to be the only reason.

written-beyond··on Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
I mean cartesia did one of their first demos on a Mac book pro, live.

Still extremely impressive but not unheard of.

written-beyond··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Too late I just shipped tsvhdl so you have a hardware implementation of the actual TS compiler. Why steal valuable CPU cycles from agent workflows, off load all transpilation and type checking to a dedicated TSC chip.
written-beyond··on Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
lol, I made the same comment the last time this website was shared here.
written-beyond··on The Tao of Backup
After reading the title, but before visiting the link, thought this was a backup of all of Terrance Taos work.
written-beyond··on Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
You're right but also very wrong.

You can never prove that there aren't any bugs. The definition can also change according to time and expectations.

I've made tens of internal developer tools because I couldn't gaf about using some third party vendor, all before vibe coding. Even then we purchased software from vendors, and we still do it now.

You can't cherry pick 2-3 pieces of problematic software, imply that it's how everything works. You're vibe coded Photoshop will never be used seriously, unfortunately. Same goes for the video editor, if you're fine with an autonomous AI agents listening to some internal github repo for issues that get auto or human reported and attempting to provide live fixes and feature enrichment, you aren't going to get that.

The problem really does stem from the fact that these agents, no matter how good you keep making them are still limited by a time horizon. AI companies have gotten really good at extending that horizon. The contexts get longer, prompts get less specific but theres a deadline to all of this. Take that LLM point it to a specific problem let it run, pull it out start new. The LLM will inevitably accumulate technical debt in it's own context, that starts to create a rot. You can try to improve this problem by making sub agents, etc. but you will 100% run into context rot after a period of time for the lead agent.

written-beyond··on SvelteKit 3
They aren't, they did some much needed API changes after adopting signals. It reduced some of the magic but it's pretty much the same as it's always been. I agree that API stability is something a lot of mature frameworks need, but svelte has always been at the forefront of provided high quality migration tooling.
written-beyond··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
We weren't asking which tools integrated LLMs, we specifically asked which got better by building them with LLMs.

Cursor, Codex and Claude Code all have terrible desktop applications, which are a laggy mess on Windows.

What improvements did UV do with auto research loops, I wasn't aware of that.

written-beyond··on I said no and Apple said yes
I thought this was posted on a Dbus hate website when I saw the URL.
written-beyond··on MiMo v2.6
Night and day, thank you!
written-beyond··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Not doubting you, care to share what those improvements were?
written-beyond··on MiMo v2.6
can you update this website, I just wish the entire layout wouldn't shift when the page gets loaded and the timestamps in the title look very ugly and take up a lot of space.
written-beyond··on Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser
Insane, I've never used those versions of macos before.
written-beyond··on I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
Sometimes I think I'm Morty speaking with the death crystal but I don't even have a death crystal and all I fear is life itself.
written-beyond··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
I hadn't read the article and read this comment as though NVIDIA themselves were implying that this library was checked but not trusted by them since it was fully LLM generated.
written-beyond··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
I want to, I have like a 2000+ day streak on Duolingo and I know I can only gain fluency once I start speaking it more.
written-beyond··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
I thought that was on purpose...
written-beyond··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Those models can never be capable enough to compare to the level of output generated by frontier labs. Where would you even host these models? Maybe a company like Shopify could manage self managing an few instances but that's it's own headache. Unless Shopify can show significant productivity gains by using ChatGPT or Anthropic's API pricing models there is no way they'll be able to justify using those services at those prices in the long term while maintaining their employee pool.

The other option is to just stay with ChatGPT and Anthropic and fire almost all of their employees, but then they're running the risk of having a significantly worse customer experience in case your development cycle gets out of hand. They'd have lost most of their internal knowledge in the layoffs so they'd be stuck.

If they don't do anything and just let their employees continue to work like they've always been but with LLMs to enhance productivity. Not to the point of implementing software factories, but as most people are using them in the industry. They lose nothing, gain productivity but their shareholders, investors and managers have been gaslit into believing if they're not 200x-ing their AI spending they're probably going to be left behind by competitors who are doing that.

Also some of their larger investors may have investments in other AI companies and they probably strong arm them into contracts with those companies to benefit their portfolio.

written-beyond··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Absolute garbage article and garbage website. This content shouldn't be allowed on HN.
written-beyond··on Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations
Svelte did always have a runtime, they're still doing this from what I understand the major part of Svelte 5 was moving to signals.
written-beyond··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
HOW DOES IT WORK FOR YOU PEOPLE?!

Istg on windows, I can't get codex app, new chatgpt or chatgpt classic to work without hanging on even a moderately sized chat. I tried all of the different tricks people recommended but that shit just crawls. It was stable at some point, classic that is, but then it started being a laggy mess.

I've uninstalled new chatgpt/codex app. I can't access phone chats on it, I can't use the desktop allocated chat messages on it. I have to use up codex limits. I am so surprised that OpenAI ships that hot garbage on windows.

written-beyond··on Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company
I guess you could say, you weren't cimpress-ed
written-beyond··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
Secret Hitler(the boardgame) fan?
written-beyond··on Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager
I don't have an issue with a vibe coded password manager, LLMs are insanely good. The issue, atleast to me, is the UI is extremely low effort LLM slop. I'd have appreciated something native that was super fast.
written-beyond··on We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
This is literally the lowest rung of a bug, it's equivalent to finding a nullptr exception. You can literally avoid them with 1 if statement.
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