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It's strange that there are no Astra comparisons. I guess they are positioning it as a Fable competitor. For me it's just a coding workhorse though, without any "fall-backs".

dude250711on Sonnet 5.5

Yeah, especially coupled with Opus for alternative reviews. A massive token burn though.

dude250711on So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes

> It seems pretty clear to me that counting on google is a bad idea.

A company that does not provide support to normal people and has a compulsive habit of closing services for absolutely no good reason? You don't say?

dude250711on EU Member States plan "digital expropriation" of Europeans in the interest of AI

Tax haven country's best export.

dude250711on According to 1950s futurists, women of the year 2000 would be giantesses (2012)

They wanted snu-snu...

dude250711on Ask HN: Indie hackers on X (Twitter) feels like a mega bubble these days

Is there any need for builders anymore? Just prompt the LLM yourself.

dude250711on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

Yeah, further reducing emotional attachment to code at work is a yet another benefit of LLMs.

dude250711on The Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris

In corrupt countries roads are built by specific companies and never last long.

dude250711on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated

Look, I have no skin in this game. If you are happy with the status quo or have a better solution - be my guest.

dude250711on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated

The perpetrators will say "well, I asked her and she said 'yes'" and you get a "He said, she said" situation again.

The rest will genuinely ask nicely and risk getting reported to HR for harassment.

dude250711on The cheap new AI model taking aim at OpenAI and Anthropic

A new contender for the supreme distillator crown!

dude250711on Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated

Women get bitten by the vagueness of their own rules, since they want to keep all options open.

If it was a strict 'no workplace dating ever' it would have been easier for everyone.

dude250711on Microsoft tried to ban "Microslop", and six months later it has given up

They went AI too hard too soon. It only truly started being usable for dev this year.

dude250711on Claude's Load-Bearing Seams

Mutually coalescing on a local maximum of abstract concepts over-represented among data distribution weights.

dude250711on Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

It can certainly measure your token spend rate.

dude250711on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

That's black and white thinking; it will be a midgularity - so neither.