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Robdel12··on ChatGPT Pro 500
Yeah no. $200 was the top for me. Which doesn't super matter to me, I pretty much only use luna. I can't tell the difference between luna vs sol/astra other than those larger models do more ambitious things that I don't ask for.
Robdel12··on Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
Man, I just do not care to see people’s LLM conversations. Those are not the artifacts. The changes are. It’s like attaching your slack convo with your teammate as a “pr”
Robdel12··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
This is awesome! More of this in YC and less Flock's.
Robdel12··on GPT-6 Astra
I don’t care about benchmarks, no way we can distill the breadth of software engineering into a number.

So, folks that have actually used this already, what’s it actually like?

Robdel12··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
How did you before LLMs 3 years ago?
Robdel12··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
100% agree with this. Want my browser search history too so you can see my thought process?

This is terrible. I have no desire to read your Claude conversation. I don’t even want to read mine if I do use Claude.

The code is the artifact. There’s no value in trying to make the noisy, verbose conversation one. It’ll likely be dead in future years anyway.

Robdel12··on Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
Yes, I'd love to! How? haha I'm robdel12 on pretty much everything (twitter, github, threads). Personal site w/email link https://robertdelu.ca/ I'd rather not put my email out here :p

Any/all work!

Robdel12··on Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
I will shamelessly plug https://pitstop.app. I've been working on this for years and I work on/race cars regularly.

I wouldn't fully trust LLMs with this :p BUT this project is still really freaking sweet.

Robdel12··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
I always will think of how everyone laughed at Bernie Sanders' reply in ~2016 to "What is the greatest threat to national security" and he replied "Climate change".

It's going to get ugly when large swaths of the human population struggles to get food & clean water.

Robdel12··on U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Poolside.ai as well
Robdel12··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDBNVO7K0kA this is a really good little episode from PBS
Robdel12··on JetZero
This reeks of Vern Raburn and Eclipse Aviation all over again, haha. That failed terribly. SV’s ego is pretty funny sometimes. Eclipse even tried to develop their own avionics.
Robdel12··on Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donation-public-first-action

Probably because anthropic is pouring $40 million dollars into a political pact to regulate models. And they have not been quiet about wanting to ban/regulate OSS models either.

I have no idea why HN still treats them like ~their~ they are the ethical good guy.

Edit: I can’t English. At least we know this came from my dumb swishy brain

Robdel12··on Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
I 100% whole heartily agree with this. Anyone saying the models made a huge leap in fall 2025 / spring 2026 still aren't looking at whats going on. Just this weekend I thought I had a solid plan and evals/tests to let 5.6 sol work unsupervised over night while I slept and it made an absolute mess. Somewhere in the loop it had to make a decision and it made a wrong one. Making everything beyond that trash. The code 'worked' but it had the wrong system design and wrote the most brittle tests around its assumption, validating its own decision. It turned into a nasty feedback loop for the model. This is 5.6 sol high.

The models write good/great code. I'm very happy to never write code again but models are no where near good enough to run off on their own without a human in the loop. Models LOVE to cheat. Just peek at the tests they write.

And before you come at me, I have built 7 products in the past 1.5/2 years with agentic engineering, all with users. One of those projects is _dead_ because I let the vibe go too hard at the same time Anthropic decided to nerf both their harness and their models silently. If you care to look at the source: https://github.com/Robdel12/OrbitDock I spent a week or so and like a billion+ tokens trying to refactor and save it. It just wasn't worth it.

I wish people would be pragmatic about this. I get the dream is to let it do everything and not to be in the loop, because being in the loop is exhausting. But if you want to make whatever you're building be robust and survive more than 6 months, you have to. I don't care how good your tests, plans, skills, etc are. At some point the model will have to decide something and it'll be the wrong one. Compounding the slop from there forward.

Robdel12··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
> and an even more capable pre-release model, all with reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes — while being internally tested on a benchmark of cyber capabilities.

This is pretty wild but also I think this is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. This was not a model everyone has access to. I mean, still insane.

Robdel12··on The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
I’m going to be honest, this kind of regulation would make me disable the site(s) for the state (if there are fines, etc). I don’t have the time to play these games for my tiny projects
Robdel12··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
OpenAI is about to get ROCKED on this. From this report, this looks open and shut. Apple has basically infinite money and incredible lawyers. Not sure what OpenAI can counter with unless they have clear, hard evidence this hasn’t been happening.
Robdel12··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
You compared trains to YouTube videos, I cannot take _you_ seriously.
Robdel12··on New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview
…are we really drawing conclusions on this starting at April? When it was released in June?
Robdel12··on Claude Sonnet 5
Dario’s own mouth https://x.com/coinbureau/status/2071330294452666695/mediavie...
Robdel12··on Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN
Huge congrats to the intercom team on that! Intercom was pretty great for me during my Percy support years. Their current AI direction is rough, though. When I went to use them for my product I was (am?) building, I found intercom unrecognizable with the entire ai pivot. Honestly made me sad but that’s how it is these days
Robdel12··on Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water
You find growing an incredibly water heavy crop in a place that doesn’t have the water supply to do so a weird comparison? And it’s not even a food that’s needed, so you can’t stand on that either.
Robdel12··on The ways we contain Claude across products
Hahahaha yeah, makes sense. Every time I use claude after codex I feel like I’m holding Claude’s hand the entire time. I imagine they have a lot of containing they have to do internally
Robdel12··on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model
This is neat to see. US army crops of engineers is a negative “word” to me after growing up in FL and they destroyed so many ecosystems. And the entire Everglades. They’re still at it now. My family has basically spent the past 30 years fighting a ware they put in on our natural creek. It killed the creek, it shrunk the flow to the size of the culvert.

So, It’s neat to see something competent! Imagine if they modeled what cutting off the natural draining to the Everglades would do :p

Robdel12··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
> Compounding the problem, labs in China often release dual-use capable models as open-weight. Once a model is open-weight, safeguards that do exist can be removed, making the model available to any state or non-state actor to use for malicious purposes, including the cyber and CBRN misuse those safeguards were built to prevent.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership

They are already starting that now.

Robdel12··on Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
> Rewriting Bun with dynamic workflows

There ya go, the rewrite was for marketing.

Robdel12··on Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
I know it’s super fun to shit on GitHub and everyone’s favorite thing to say is “build a competitor!”

They’re trying to scale from 1 billion commits last year to over 14 billion this year. I have zero desire to try and manage that scaling. Basically being DDOS’d by agents all day now.

https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

Robdel12··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
I have no idea how that’s what you get from this. I don’t want my project using any tech that decides to take 6 days to rewrite the entire library with AI. That is at its core an engineering decision.

No healthy engineering team is going to do that. And I’d want to distance myself as far as I could from a project that behaves like that.

Robdel12··on Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)
Imagine making this your entire identity
Robdel12··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Which is funny because Anthropic is the SOTA that the DoD has been using for more than 2 years. They already have blood on their hands with helping the Iran attack. He joined it
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