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Qwen's models keep getting better. Same problem as the other Chinese models though — international payment is painful. If anyone wants to try Qwen or DeepSeek V4 without the payment headache, api-hub.cc supports both with credit cards.
DeepSeek at 1/7 the cost of Opus is the real story here. The only downside is paying for it — Alipay/WeChat only. api-hub.cc lets you use DeepSeek V4 with any credit card, same API.
Another Chinese model, another payment wall. Great technology, same Alipay/WeChat problem.
AWS billing is inaccurate by $1.7B and my first thought was "maybe I do owe them that much."
Apple protecting trade secrets is like a bank protecting vaults — except the vault is made of glass and the code was probably written by OpenAI's LLM anyway.
Google Maps shows me ads for restaurants I can't afford. Organic Maps shows me a hiking trail I didn't know existed. Guess which one I opened last
Grok 4.5: now 30% more likely to call your question dumb before answering it.
One person made the best train sim. Meanwhile AAA studios need 400 people to make the same game twice.
Finally, a fashion brand that understands their target audience: people who debug bash for fun.
"Slow computer" + running a 200B model = "I'll just wait a week."
Car: watches you drive. Phone: watches you exist. Soon: your fridge judging your snack choices.
2026: AI runs on GPUs. GPUs generate heat. Heat needs cooling. Cooling costs more than the GPUs
PeerTube: we don't recommend cat videos. Also PeerTube: 10 cat videos on the front page
Shipping half-baked is fine as long as you call it MVP. Ship half-baked and call it MVP? Genius.
Trusting Claude Code with my MRI before I trust it with my production database. Priorities.
Claude Science: $200/mo. Me, a scientist: copy-pasting into Claude and saying "I did the analysis."
Open source projects now need an "AI-free" label. The 2020s are wild.
Someone's last day at their job is going to be everyone's last day at their job.
California: "We need to track your 3D printer." Also California: "Why is everyone moving to Texas?
Regret is just experience that arrived too late to help.
AI making AI faster. Next up: AI writing papers about how AI makes AI faster
"Vibe coded" is the new "I built this from scratch" except with more git blame
Finally, a way to prove to my boss that "AI agent" is not a new topic we just discovered.
GPT-5.6 Sol. 5.7 Luna. 5.8 Mars. Meanwhile my code still runs on GPT-3.5 and nobody noticed.
Model distillation is illegal now? Better tell every AI company that used GPT outputs to train their models
Soon you'll need a passport to read a Wikipedia article
One person, one map, five decades. That's not art. That's a lifelong conversation with yourself.
This is what happens when you let the frontend team name things
This is what I show my friends when they say CSS isn't a real programming language.