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nprateem··on Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Same. Downloaded chatgpt today. I can't take reading Claude any more.
nprateem··on Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Trouble is they're unreliable.

I compared insurance quotes last week. Needed cover for 2 brands, 1 company. Opus jumps up and down saying both brands need listing on the policy schedule. Human broker said not.

I told opus and it's the usual "thanks you're right" bollocks because it bothered to read in more detail and found that all business activities are covered.

nprateem··on New MCP Roadmap
The real disaster was making it stateful. Need to get some adults in the room.
nprateem··on DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Deepseek flash v4 july sounds like fun and games while you're looking at prices, but it routinely outputs incoherent rubbish and fails to call tools correctly.

Sadly oversold. I hold little hope for the vision model either now.

nprateem··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
They're prepping to IPO. They want top level metrics like usage they can use to pump investors, not nonsense like profitability.
nprateem··on Grok 4.6
* Also FSD is coming this year
nprateem··on 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe
Opinion stated as fact
nprateem··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
Either that or they want to comply with the EU AI Act when it affects them.
nprateem··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
Load-bearing==claude
nprateem··on Banksy works cost public almost £150k
Probably to stop people rocking up and cutting them out of the buildings
nprateem··on Seedance 2.5
Surprising. I thought Vin Diesel was a twat in any language.
nprateem··on Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions
They've removed the load bearing crap but the disjointed sentences give away the AI and make it hard to read.
nprateem··on Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit)
Oh ffs.

Title should be:

"Fable is now included on Max plans (up to 50% of weekly limit) if you actually have any usage left after when you thought it'd be taken off you yesterday"

nprateem··on Qwen 3.8
Fable is still as dumb as a post. I ask it simple questions and it routinely gets things backwards, prioritises things that should be subordinate to others, etc.

An example: It just suggested that I shouldn't raise the price of my saas because it'd complicate the arithmetic if I did 0 -> $100k YT channel instead of sticking to $20 p/m.

It's just a complete moron, like all of them.

nprateem··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
I guess on the plus side I'm $1.7B better off so I can retire...
nprateem··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Depends. Did you also get a free heart attack?
nprateem··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Americans call bum bags fanny packs. Always raises a smile.
nprateem··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Some YT videos are almost impossible to watch as people read out this shit from scripts
nprateem··on AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
Watching YouTube recently and lots of videos are clearly entirely scripted by AI, shit analogies and all. You can almost hear the emdashes.

It really is painful watching.

nprateem··on I think I have LLM burnout
Over the last few days with fable I've found it at times incomprehensible, terse word salad. It also invents phrases assuming I'll understand (but that could be because it's reusing terms in the codebase I no longer remember).

I've often had to paste its output back in to ask it what it actually means. Weird.

I think the main thing is just fatigue. There's so little variety. Each model has its preferred idiolect which everyone becomes tired of due to ubiquity. That's the worst part. It's like always eating fast food.

nprateem··on Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability
It still does stupid stuff like leave unnecessary abstractions around after refactoring instead of proactively suggesting to remove them.
nprateem··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
There's just no escaping from making decisions. Agents can't reliably make them as many rely on tacit knowledge which isn't written down.

This bottleneck will always have to exist unless companies just accept AI defaults, with predictable outcomes.

nprateem··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Case law
nprateem··on Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place
Jesus. Finally. I told you so.
nprateem··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
If I see AI content online I bounce because I can ask AI myself. All the AI slop has zero benefit to companies doing it to me if they want to target me. But then some people watch tiktoks, so as usual we're in an echo chamber.
nprateem··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
> The model definitely remembers previous exchanges within the same conversation.

Christ HN isn't what it used to be

nprateem··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
> if they don't understand how computers work

Or if they're retards. The fact this still comes up is weird. A printing press isn't conscious, so why would an LLM be.

Don't forget, some of the bros are overly excitable. Like that twat who reckoned a Google model 5 years ago was conscious.

nprateem··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
> I'm not fully convinced that consciousness isn't built out of words

I know you're trolling, but when you watch a movie do you constantly narrate "A man in a dark coat has just entered the scene and just said '...'"? Of course not. You just watch it and you're obviously conscious (although your statement demonstrates shocking lack of self-awareness).

God knows what other nonsensical bullshit you believe.

nprateem··on Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos
Or people trying to pump it like they're Musk (pump it like you're Musk) pre-IPO
nprateem··on Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?
Obvs the first thing is that everyone interprets the word "God" differently. But for myself I'd say I believe that there is

1. a universal consciousness,

2. an energy that works through everything, and

3. that we can tap into both.

Been a slow journey from atheism to this, but mainly based on reading countless first-hand descriptions of enlightenment, mostly related to Kundalini experiences and psychedelic-induced. Reported experiences often fall into such similar categories, sometimes with the same symbology it's either something weirdly evolved in us (for no evolutionary advantage I can see), or some people gain access to deeper levels of reality.

Personal experiences for me that tipped it were:

1. My own Kundalini experiences (not the full-blown transcendental kind yet, but energy surges, meditation phenomena)

2. Receiving remote shaktipat, where energy was projected into me. One of the most surprising was when I was just lying down and a woman 10 miles away sent energy to me for half an hour. It was unmistakable, and wasn't possible she had subconsciously influenced me as she barely spoke to me until after the practice apart from telling me to lie down and relax.

Also, I recently worked out how to 'drop my mind' like Zen practioners talk about. Realised that's the core of concentration-style meditation. Good feelings start to arise on their own.

It's a personal journey (and ultimately the only one that counts), and the mind gets in the way, but each to their own.

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