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Not weird at all, given the variance in Opus' quality over the last few months.

wild guess - I wouldn't be surprised if Opus 4.6 was run quantized for a while, and 4.7/4.8 have QAT for that nerfed size.

AI is slowing down 1 month ago

Lol... in this case, cheese imports from China are much cheaper, just not quite as good.

And for those who are all "but dur CCP get all ur data" you can use things like AWS Bedrock (at least for earlier versions of Deepseek and Qwen for now) and have more familiar people get all your data. Or buy (at obnoxiously inflated prices) your own HW and not send your data to anyone.

It looks like Supermicro had some DDR3 Xeon v3/v4 boards, and the first thing that came to mind was a Shenzen workstation/gaming board using recycled parts... haven't searched on that but it's bound to exist.

CD's have repatterened uncompressed data using scrambling codes to keep the waveform stable (i.e. ~50% on/off)

And a Laserdisc with digital sound literally has that CD audio EFM waveform in the lower frequencies.

Agreed - if you're only writing things with Claude Code that would exist anyway (largely day job things) you're missing out.

Having an AI-slop version of X for your own gratification is usually better than having no version at all.

AMD GPUs Go Brrr 8 months ago

Yup... the first Ryzen/EPYC chips were literally a saving throw.

AMD's driver/software woes compared to nVidia make more sense when you realize they barely made it here at all.

The sad thing is that, from what I can tell, Intel doesn't have a true planned successor to Alder Lake-N.

It really might be as bad a mistake as not having Intel Isreal's futher development of Pentium 3 would have been. (in other words, no Pentium M, no Core 2 Duo, no Nehalem...)