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sbochins

982 karma · joined April 8, 2011

website: stephen.bochinski.dev github: https://github.com/sbochins
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sbochins··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
At some point the people criticizing ai art will realize it’s mostly a skills issue that they have the problem with. In the end, they have no issue with the concept itself. So many things that were blocked by people not having the ability to make simple posters or do other take they’re not familiar with are being unblocked. We should be empathetic to these people and not criticize them for using ai art for their garage sale.
sbochins··on GPT-6 Astra
There’s nothing stopping Bob Ross from painting and obviously nobody is suggesting him using a robot to paint. I think he’d be clearheaded enough to welcome new forms of creativity, unlike some of his less open minded fans.
sbochins··on GPT-6 Astra
Then learn how to be creative and use the ai better?
sbochins··on GPT-6 Astra
I guess it’s kind of over for open ai now? We had a bunch of model releases at or around the same time, so we can get a good lay of the land. Surprise, surprise anthropic is still in the lead. Now we have Google and meta with models that are beating OpenAI in many benchmarks. There appear to be some really good cyber capabilities with this model and some other specific benchmark wins. That said, it’s as expensive as fable 5.1. It looks like all the executives that decided to leave may have picked the right time to do so. That said, I can’t wait to try it and see if the problem is we can no longer trust any benchmarks.
sbochins··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
It’s sad, but a lot of software folks have decided to become influencers and not pursue expertise. I remember before you’d mostly be reading boring looking blogs to follow experts in the industry. It seems like the mindshare has moved to flashy videos by people that aren’t experts, but are great at communication. Similar to how if you want to watch some diy video on YouTube, you’ll get much better information from a poorly produced snd edited video from someone that knows what they’re talking about vs a well produced and edited video from someone that has no idea what they’re talking about.
sbochins··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
Because it took too much time before and now it’s essentially instantaneous and free?
sbochins··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
I don’t have a problem with ai generated media in blogs at all. Nobody is going to take the time to hand draw a piece of art for a blog that takes them less than an hour to write. Pictures speak a thousand words and serve as a great intro to a blog post. Embrace the future.
sbochins··on Our position on open-weights models
Amazing how this company went from having such goodwill to hardly any. At the end of the day they want to make as much money as possible. Anthropic will have to lose a ton of their profitability if they compete with open source. I see them moving into the application layer, which they’ve already started doing. It’s clear open models are the future for the vast majority of use cases that don’t need frontier capabilities.
sbochins··on Claude Opus 5
Quick read is that this is more capable and cheaper than 5.6sol. Same price for input tokens and $5 cheaper per mil output tokens.
sbochins··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
Out of all the things I’d consider to help me improve or be more productive, this has to be at the bottom. I actually used to write notes all throughout college, mostly because I couldn’t afford a laptop and would use the school desktop computers when actually writing code. But, I don’t see any degradation from moving to a workflow where I never physically write anymore.

I also don’t understand his stance on using cursive. Everyone that writes quickly develops their own scribble, which they can easily read and doesn’t involve taking the pen off the paper. What’s the point in relearning proper cursive?

sbochins··on The Kimi K3 Moment
There’s probably some other things that weren’t exactly clear or could be misinterpreted in the post. I don’t see it as worth my time to go back and edit each little thing.
sbochins··on Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand
That doesn’t appear to be the case anymore. They just have one set of plans: Allegreto, modereto, etc which apply to both the chat app and the coding apps.
sbochins··on The Kimi K3 Moment
That’s not obvious to me at all. Especially your claim around opus.
sbochins··on The Kimi K3 Moment
This is comparing Fable High with K3 High. I'm mostly using these models for game development. The tasks I usually send are ambiguous visual bugs, changing the look of a scene or models, or adding a large feature. The wording wasn't accurate there. I don't use Fable or K3 most of the time. I'm usually working on smaller scoped tasks that I review myself afterwards.
sbochins··on Elastic lays off 7% of employees
I think you’re on the wrong website. You’re allowed to be conservative here. But, you can’t be conservative and an idiot.
sbochins··on Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI
I’m convinced this is 90% of the way this actually played out.
sbochins··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
It’s the Trump administration trying to pick winners and losers. The chief ai person in the administration is David Sacks. He’s been completely biased and is always going on rants against Anthropic on his podcast (wild that he is participating while in the administration). It’s clear the administration is at odds with Anthropic and will do what they can to stop them from succeeding.
sbochins··on AI coding at home without going broke
Gemini models are great. They’re just not good at coding. I use them all the time.
sbochins··on Fable situation update from David Sacks
Unfortunately we cannot trust this guy. He’s deep in the Trump administration and has been doing everything in his power to try and pick other companies to win over Anthropic. Just before all this happened, he was going on a rant about how Anthropic was doing too much to disable their models for safety / regulatory capture reasons!
sbochins··on AI coding at home without going broke
There are certain things you can leave running for a while. I think the distinction between vibe coding and hitl based coding routines will blur as workflows prove themselves and models become smarter and less expensive. Most of the best engineers I know have transitioned a lot more into vibe coding this year. The possibilities are much better nowadays.
sbochins··on AI coding at home without going broke
If you paid for solar, this is less of an issue. I also don’t worry so much about running my AC.
sbochins··on AI coding at home without going broke
To be honest I’m not doing too much. I’m just on one of the $200 plans, but always hit limits. I only use the best models and mostly use it for various software projects I always wanted to build, but didn’t have time for. I just closely monitor the usage caps and have something running on a Ralph loop most of the time, unless I get near the cap. The post here is more about how I’d start a self-funded software company, if I wasn’t already working full time.
sbochins··on Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
This phase that all these companies went through doesn’t seem that bad. Before these places had a big problem where all their employees didn’t understand how to us ai for their work. Now they’ve overspent and tokenmaxxed and haven’t seen much from it. The next phase is to set the goalpost lower and set quotas based on who uses ai more effectively. Eventually the folks that use it well and are productive will bring in roi. Then you can fire all the folks that aren’t using it effectively and replace them with people that know how to use it. We’re already starting to see this.
sbochins··on Claude Opus 4.8
I haven’t done any coding or anything that would use a lot of tokens and somehow I’ve already hit my session limit with my $20 plan. I’m just using it to ask basic questions most of the time and occasionally I have it write code but I haven’t done anything like that since the new model rolled out. It looks like some sort of issue where they’re incorrectly capping things for people?
sbochins··on What's Left for AI-Assisted Coding
You can get around context in large codebases by solving the memory problem. Also works better if you can break up larger projects into smaller sub components with adequate documentation.
sbochins··on I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
No, pre silicon unfortunately. But this was a couple years ago, so who knows what the market is now.
sbochins··on Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality
Texas is a quasi fascist state at this point. I wouldn’t hold your breath about Greg Abbott coming to the rescue. This type of interaction with their constituents is common now.
sbochins··on I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation
You can still get old Mac minis for less than that, which have more memory and can run Debian. Probably best performance per dollar hardware available on the used market
sbochins··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
You seem to fall into the same set of criticisms as everyone who’s bearish about ai. It’s somehow so powerful that we can’t handle the ramifications. Meanwhile, it’s a waste of money and doesn’t do anything. You have to pick a criticism and stick with it. Otherwise, it’s just angst-driven noise.
sbochins··on Googlebook
My nest thermostat disagrees with your optimism.
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