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justinbaker84on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

Your comparison grid is one of the most useful comparison grids I have ever seen in terms of measuring AI.

It feels silly to say that about making a pelican image but it really shows the difference in output and cost in an easy to understand way.

justinbaker84on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

It is down for me too. I just get this error:

unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a355957b4b8210f2-ORD

justinbaker84on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

I switched from claude to gpt when 5.6 came out for the same reasons. I don't understand why so many people are still using claude when GPT and open source are so much better.

justinbaker84on Incident with Github.com [resolved]

I have wondered the same thing. Even a small fee like $50 a year would get rid of a lot of AI slop that justs eats up resources.

I would gladly pay that fee if it means Github is reliable for paying customers.

justinbaker84on Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results

I have been wondering the same thing myself. I manage google ads for a living and I don't understand why I still have a job.

Personally I use AI chatbots to help me make every purchase decision I have to think about.

justinbaker84on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

I love this benchmark!

justinbaker84on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

I was thinking the same thing.

justinbaker84on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

Microsoft is saying they have a 27% stake in the company after this deal closes.

justinbaker84on Claude Haiku 4.5

Just read it when it is done writing it.

justinbaker84on Claude Haiku 4.5

I don't understand why more people don't talk about how fast the models are. I see so much obsession with bechmark scores but speed of response is very important for day to day use.

I agree that the models from OpenAI and Google have much slower responses than the models from Anthropic. That makes a lot of them not practical for me.

justinbaker84on Claude Haiku 4.5

I feel like if I just do a better job of providing context and breaking complex tasks into a series of simple tasks then most of the models are good enough for me to code.

justinbaker84on Claude Haiku 4.5

I am a professional developer so I don't care about the costs. I would be willing to pay more for 4.5 Haiku vs 4.5 Sonnet because the speed is so valuable.

I spend way to much time waiting for the cutting edge models to return a response. 73% on SWE Bench is plenty good enough for me.

justinbaker84on Claude Haiku 4.5

I am very excited about this. I am a freelance developer and getting responses 3x faster is totally worth the slightly reduced capability.

I expect I will be a lot more productive using this instead of claude 4.5 which has been my daily driver LLM since it came out.

justinbaker84on Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon

The people who succeed the most with fraud are those who tell lies that people want to believe. A LOT of people wanted to believe that there could be a second electric car company and that they could get rich off it. That is why the fraud worked so well.

justinbaker84on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

I predict a false flag cyber attack on the US that is supposed to whip us into a frenzy for war in Iran.

justinbaker84on What's working for YC companies since the AI boom

Can confirm. One of my best friends is a senior engineer at thomson reuters and they are focused on that.

justinbaker84on Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency

It is dissapointing to see how frequently VCs invest hundreds of millions of dollars into fraudulent companies. This is very different from investing in legit companies that don't work.

It often seems like you are more likely to raise VC by being a fraud than by being a responsible person who wants to do something positive in this world.

justinbaker84on Claude 4

I have been very brand loyal to claude also but the new gemini model is amazing and I have been using it exclusively for all of my coding for the last week.

I am excited to try out this new model. I actually want to stay brand loyal to antropic because I like the people and the values they express.

justinbaker84on Open guide to equity compensation

I worked at a startup where I joined as the second employee before they raised any money and I basically got 0.5% of the company. They went on to raise over $100 million in VC.

I got $0 for my equity. Start ups have SO many ways to screw employees out of their equity.

The most basic is that you have options that you are not allowed to sell during equity rounds. If you accept them then you need to pay the strike price and they count as taxable income even though you got shares instead of money so you just lose a lot of money.

Say what you will about Elon, but at Space X employees are allowed to sell their shares for actual money at regular intervals. Very few start ups that succeed allow their employees to do that.

90% of startups that succeed just want to grind down their employees rather than pay them the equity they earned.

justinbaker84on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

This is the main point I always want to communicate to the teams building foundation models.

A lot of people just want the ability to pay more in order to get more.

I would gladly pay 10x more to get relatively modest increases in performance. That is how important the intelligence is.

justinbaker84on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

I have been thinking the same thing. The only other thing they do is take positions they think will increase their popularity with their audience.

justinbaker84on Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission

I think that is the case with Sam, but not Ilya and probably not with some of the other founders.

justinbaker84on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT

I have had a similar experience. I build wordpress websites and ChatGPT has allowed me to extend their functionality a great deal without needing to learn how to code PHP.

justinbaker84on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)

  Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Google Ads
  Résumé/CV: I am a freelance digital marketer.  I spend 90% of my time helping small and medium businesses with their google ads.  I am really good at it because I focus on just that one thing.  I think you need to focus on just one thing to really master it.  You can learn more about me at AdsByJustin.com.
  Email: justin@adsbyjustin.com

justinbaker84on The man who killed Google Search?

I agree with everything you are saying, but the stock price is up 6x over the last 10 years and revenue is still growing 13% a year so nobody at google is going to listen to any of this.

Basically ad dollars have continued to transition from old media to digital media over the last decade+ and that mass migration has created enough revenue to cover up all of Google's core problems.

justinbaker84on The man who killed Google Search?

The shares they own give them 51% of the votes because when they negotiated a deal that gives them a lot more votes than anybody else. They own about 12% of the company.

Those numbers are for both of them combined. If one of them had a serious disagreement with the other they could join forces with other shareholders to create a new 51% majority.

justinbaker84on Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?

I have been self employed for 10 years now. I manage Google Ads for small and medium businesses.

I still have the desire to create a great start up, but at least this way I can pay the bills and have more free time to work on start up ideas.

justinbaker84on How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet

I am an american with libertarian/conservative political views and I rarely see outward political bias toward the left on the articles I visit. I think it happens on contentious issues but it is really mild compared to every other media outlet.

justinbaker84on How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet

That is exactly what I see most of the time in high quality discourse around current events. People pick the items they want to emphasize or de-emphasize and that is what creates different narratives.

justinbaker84on Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders

Usually when I get the spam you are describing sent to my gmail account it looks like some spammer managed to send obvious spam messages from a server on an authoritative domain like a university.