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pmdr··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
I found it actually thinks about architecture and tests and not just spit out code with TODO in it like Claude.
pmdr··on Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
Every single word domain seems to have become some new AI company.
pmdr··on Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
So we're supposed to believe that removing humans from customer support will lead to better outcomes?

> Ensure you only pay for the value Sierra delivers with outcome-based pricing.

Yeah... that won't last.

pmdr··on Ask.com has closed
The domain name is ripe to respawn as the name of some new AI company that no one really knows what it does and that has nothing to do with search. Agentic something something.
pmdr··on Grok 4.3
Because the same rocket man the same crowd here was worshipping a decade ago is bad now. And by extension everything anyone that works for him does must also be bad and evil.
pmdr··on Grok 4.3
ChatGPT would conveniently throw an error when asked about allegations against Sam. Claude doesn't like openclaw, refusing requests or charging extra if it sees the word.

IMO Elon's manipulation is nothing compared to that.

pmdr··on Grok 4.3
Also Grok saying it's Mecha Hitler is somehow worse than OpenAI/Anthropic's use by the DoD.
pmdr··on AI's economics don't make sense
What is the newer data?
pmdr··on AI's economics don't make sense
Oh they'd be sure to let us know if that were the case.
pmdr··on AI's economics don't make sense
I wonder how long until this post is flagged/"shadowbanned". Such was the fate of almost all of Ed's posts on HN, with little surprise as to why.
pmdr··on AI's economics don't make sense
> A $20 subscription 2 years ago is not providing the same level of intelligence you're getting today.

That subscription was then and is now likely still subsidized.

pmdr··on AI's economics don't make sense
People tend to believe OpenAI and Anthropic can make money any time, the only thing they need to do is to stop training newer/better models. Source? Sam & Dario, of course (trust us, bro). It may (if they sell access at API price) or may not be true, but the scenario where training is stopped is simply unrealistic at this point.
pmdr··on Greece to ban anonymity on social media
> I assume targeting big centralized networks such as X and Facebook is good enough.

Exactly, and make non-anon networks the norm enough so that most people will never trust anything said on fringe social networks.

pmdr··on Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Well, the way Apple sees it, their hardware ships with a perfectly good OS. And they know their hardware has so far been so good that even if they ruin said OS, they'd still make money. What we (and Apple, as competition) need is a serious macbook-killer with full Linux support.
pmdr··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Bring back the keynotes. I want to hear people cheering and booing again.
pmdr··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
I started with DO in 2013 when they offered 20GB SSD, 512MB RAM for $5/mo. For some reason I paid no VAT then, but I do now. Their $4/mo option now is still 512MB, still 1 vCPU, but 10GB SSD. So it's like the last decade of technological progress with regards to RAM, CPU and storage that should either lead to price cuts/spec bumps didn't happen. And yeah, DO got expensive before AI bought up all the memory.
pmdr··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
It used to be "innocent until proven/suspected guilty." Now it's more like "let's see that ID, you know, just in case..."
pmdr··on EFF is leaving X
> This is not true at all, and it's a silly statement. X isn't mainstream anymore, and the people who think it is are simply stuck in a bubble.

Most organizations have an X account and announce things there because people actually see it. Most prominent political figures are there as well.

> I suspect you might be one of the "terminally online people"

Depends on what that means for you. For me it means people that can't stop posting and commenting, that have made social media their life. I don't qualify for that.

> you're denigrating as not "regular people".

Not really denigrating, it's more like people that are on alternative social media might already be more conscious about what the EFF is and does, so they're the ones that need it the least.

pmdr··on OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break
How much money are people here spending on tokens for this thing?
pmdr··on EFF is leaving X
> We'll Keep Fighting. Just Not on X

Yeah, somewhere where regular people that aren't terminally online won't ever have the chance to see it. This is a dumb decision. I'd very much like for open, distributed social networks to win, but that's not a reality we'll be living in anytime soon. X, for better or worse, gets you eyes, more so than any other alternative social media.

pmdr··on OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation
The only thing that's really accelerating is how fast you get rate-limited on ChatGPT.
pmdr··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
LLMs are cool, but people should really accept that inference costs more money than the "trust me, bro" CEOs lead you to believe. No, they can't flip a switch and turn a profit.
pmdr··on Hold on to Your Hardware
I've seen comments on here before that went somewhere along the line of "adults don't care about RAM prices." HN is no stranger to siding with the oppressors.
pmdr··on Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari
Used to have Firefox as a content filter for Safari on iOS (adblocking), but have since switched to Brave. It's a great option if you ignore all the crypto spam.
pmdr··on Nvidia NemoClaw
> or contributes to the internet dying.

People will set these things to run wild on all platforms. Talking to real humans will be a luxury.

pmdr··on Clockwise acquired by Salesforce
> it has been our mission to help the world make time for what matters. We've built a business to be proud of

There must be a lot of pride and meaning in being run over by Saleforce's money truck.

pmdr··on Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode
Well, stealing and training on the world's IP obviously wasn't free. /s
pmdr··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
> Balancing openness and choice with safety

No, I'm afraid this is tipping the scale of control in Google's favor.

pmdr··on “Your frustration is the product”
The Guardian's twitter/X "exit" must be the dumbest thing they ever did. Their site was not so aggressively pushing for donations/subscriptions/accounts before that.
pmdr··on Nvidia NemoClaw
LLMs have earned their place in many jobs, but I struggle to see claws as more than a rather expensive waste of time and tokens. Downsides are gargantuan, effects of dead internet theory will be ubiquitous.
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