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GLM 5.2 vs. Opus 1 month ago

The text only part is the catch for me.

If it builds a UI and can't look at it, it's askin ls whether the app looks right.

The machine is still fun.

It's the five layers of product growth between you and the machine that get tiring.

This is uncomfortably close to a normal interview task now.

Someone sends you a repo, says the install is broken, and asks you to take a look.

A lot of developers would run rpm install before thinking twice, especially if they were tired or looking for work.

Claude Fable 5 1 month ago

who's tried it: is 2x the usage actually worth it over Opus 4.8 for daily work?

Storage never ended up being the thing we worried about. The painful bits started once a workflow could touch external systems. Replaying state is one thing. Replaying a charge or an email is another. How are you dealing with that?

the glorified marketer framing in this thread is missing the bigger signal. karpathy publicly pausing eureka labs to join anthropic is an ai founder of his caliber effectively conceding that verticals get eaten by frontier upgrades.for everyone here building on top of foundation, that's the actual news

Google I/O 2 months ago

flash beating the pro it was distilled from is suspicious, not surprising.distillation usually loses you something. if the smaller model is winning on agentic evals, the more likely read is the evals weren't measuring agent quality in the first place. that's the bigger problem for builders, not which model to pick.

Clean room needs an independent second party with their own intent. An AI rewrite probably doesn't qualify, since its output traces directly to what it read.

the EU funds argument works both ways. plenty of countries received similar transfers and didn't compound it the same way. the interesting question isn't where the money came from, it's what Poland did with it that others didn't.

2021: a Reddit short squeeze kept GameStop from going under. 2026: GameStop is bidding $55B for eBay, a company 4x its size. If it lands, this might be the strangest full circle moment public markets have ever produced.

had this exact fight. founder wanted it more corporate, designer had the research, designer won.

six months later pipeline was dead. buyers were enterprise procurement, the new look read as too small to trust with our budget.

research was right. just not about these users.

good example from the article: the chroot+nss CVE. the rule that nss is dynamic and dlopens libraries from inside the chroot isn't anywhere obvious. it's encoded in 25+ years of sysadmins finding it out. clean-room rewrites end up re-learning that, usually as new CVEs. and LLM ports of the same code inherit the problem: the function signature is what they read, but the scars are what they need.

about to launch my first open source project in days. reading this with a knot. github used to be a default; now it's a decision. and watching mitchellh agonize publicly is the honest preview every new maintainer gets from now on.

running an ai product on top of anthropic's api. from this side: customer demand is real, recurring revenue is real. but margin lives or dies on whether anthropic keeps cutting token prices. real revenue, fragile pricing. that's the bubble shape most people miss.