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So company who stole stuff to make their stuff is mad because another company is stealing their stuff.

And now a regime best known for lying to their own people is the one trying to convince me?

Go, China!

That's the one murdering innocent civilians in the streets? That's the one locking up thousands and denying basic human rights?

No. They're not the 'correct agency' for anything.

This isn't about "finding" fraud.

This is about instilling fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Interesting generalization; that’s almost the opposite of my experience.

A common hiring anecdote we share with people outside tech is literally: “A CS degree doesn’t teach you how to code.”

For me, ~25 years ago in the UC system, it was all math/science/theory-oriented. Some C++/Java that was introduced to get you through all that theory. Learning how to code/actual software engineering comes with practical experience.

Agreed, it seems to be working and it's nonsense. I don't know why you're being downvoted.

"This information is too dangerous for you, so we'll just hold on to it.."

Thanks big brother, super anthropic of you!

The internet of '95 is looking back at us, with tears in its eyes.

As an American, I'm deeply ashamed of m̶y̶ this country.

I don't expect the damage to be undone within my lifetime.

Do we really need to keep slamming the grid and killing the planet for pseudonymous casino chips?

Can someone please merge crypto with llm training/inference somehow?

Hey now!

The man is _acing_ the multitude of cognitive tests that doctors keep giving him.

Agree on cause, disagree on solution.

I'd lean more towards education than fornication.

No judgement.

This makes sense.

Facts cease to exist because you ignore them. I think Huxley wrote that.

I started coding AddonInteractive/AddonChat in 2001 shortly after graduating. A simple Java-based chat SaaS. When I felt it was good enough I put up a web site and started marketing.

Within six months of starting development I had my first customer- who hated my product's bugs, but helped me find and offered ideas for improvements. A year later I was at $30k ARR. That doubled year after year for some time before leveling out. It was enough to live comfortably for ~15 years, but nobody mistook me for wealthy.

No exit opportunities.

I didn't start by dwelling on ideas. Some parity has to come first, then add value. I looked at companies building things of interest to me that I knew to be attainable wrt time and money. I emulated in my own style what they did best, I avoided or improved upon what they did poorly and I shouldered my way into the market. Above all, I listened to my customers and followed their lead.

4.5 works well for me too and avoids adaptive-dismissal, though anymore Codex is crushing them all. If 4.8 just brings us back to Opus circa February, it'll be a massive improvement.

Assuming a rational decision from this regime is an absurd and amusing thought to ponder.

The first time someone explained Docker to me I remember saying, "Oh, you mean a jail?". Not quite, as the article explains. :)

kqueue was a huge win too.

A huge thank you to the FreeBSD developers. I ran my first company for 15 years on FreeBSD with incredible uptime and resilience.

Tant mieux pour eux.

I suppose some added sovereignty is to be expected when your closest ally extorts, threatens annexation and slams you with tariffs.

The METR report continues to hold up. I would add "No Silver Bullet" to the reading list.

Careful who you share this information with- better to roll with the kool-aid drinkers when they're holding the cards.

I think it's natural to lose enthusiasm over time when a joy becomes a job.

"I don't care for coding new stuff. Everything I may need either already exists or is too complex to do on my own (and no, I won't vibe-code it, what's the fun in that?)"

I'm not sure if you mean "code gen without a plan/expertise" or just code gen. If you found joy because you enjoyed building things, now be the best time to explore and prototype something you've always dreamt of.

If you found joy because of the craft itself, low-level hands-on stuff (breadboards, esp32s, soldering, ..) can scratch that itch too.

IME, based on an in-house bench it's still good to about 20% on the 1M for 4.6 and 4.7 with a code base >50k loc. The trick I used before switching providers was to have it write a handoff when it hit ~18% of context and reset.

There are also many people running 4.5 with specific parameters that claim to be having luck.

This.

Astonished to see so many bright people on HN taking the bait, especially from a company whose gone to such lengths to screw over their paying customers.

They're a commodity provider. They're no more special than any of the others, and it's just a matter of time before their trillion parameter models are running on my watch.

So, of-course they're trying to snatch up giant, long-term contracts now while they hype the hell out of another minor incremental improvement.

And we'll be paying the price to all the Enterprises that lock in, only to wake up a week from now and realize there is another player with a better product.

I switched some time after Anthropic bricked their models with adaptive thinking. It's a legit mystery to me how people are still using CC professionally.

Codex is far less frustrating and manages context better. It's also costing me about 1/3rd as much as Opus 4.7 on CC.

Or try to beat Anthropic's uptime.

I was fortunate to be taught by my father when I was younger. It may be an age/luck-of-the-draw thing, but check out "MILD"; it's the name for the simple technique that worked for me.

Yeah, fair. I should've specifically asked for CC/adaptive-thinking to be returned to a working state and not the model itself.

I agree. If compute is the issue and pricing can't budge then something has to give.

They would have kept my business if they were honest and upfront. Instead they sold me something that worked well, broke it without warning, remained silent about it until enough people caught on, chose to do nothing, then proceeded to release a model that eats ~30% more tokens with no advantage over prior models.

If they chose to unbrick their model and offered what we had a couple months ago at a 50% hike, I would have been onboard. I've seen enough now of how this company treats its customers to continue using or recommending them.

Also, Codex works much better than CC now for anyone who happens to be on the fence.

Plus one. I held off for too long out of concern that it wouldn't stack up and I'd come right back to Anthropic.

I switched a few days ago and work has been much less frustrating. Feels like CC did back in February before they started playing games.

It also doesn't eat nearly as many tokens, so it's saving me $100/mo.

Same, after being a long-time proponent too.

First was the CC adaptive thinking change, then 4.7. Even with `/effort max` and keeping under 20% of 1M context, the quality degradation is obvious.

I don't understand their strategy here.

I've taken time off work to follow something I've always dreamed of doing. So I'm building Cella, A cross-platform, 3D space MMO game set in a procedural, animated universe with fully composable ships & structures built using functional cells.

https://cellagame.com/

I'm looking for artists to help fulfill the vision.

Can confirm. Max effort helps; limiting context <= ~20-25% is crucial anymore.

* keep active sessions active. It seems like caches are expiring after ~5 minutes (especially during peak usage). When the caches expire it sees like all tokens need to be rebuilt this gets especially bad as token usage goes up.

Is this as opaque on their end as it sounds, or is there a way to check?

This is exactly what I'm seeing in working with companies in Belgium, Germany and France.

It's not just about costs- managers are actively seeking to distance themselves from everything US.

We've stopped treating them like allies. Who's to blame them?

Same, I'm looking hard for an alternative to what I had.

And I'm seeing the same thing in my sphere- everyone is bailing Anthropic the past few weeks. I figure that's why we're seeing more posts like this.

I hope they're paying attention.