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tandr··on Gemini 4 Argon
Well... given that I have codex reporting 1b tokens consumed for my couple-days long session, I suspect 10-20b is not that hard to reach for a company of 10 devs. It would be interesting to know what is "rental fee" for a model like Astra or Sol 6.1, and how much hardware they actually need - not just gpu, but all of it?
tandr··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
The misstep was naming it Sol - it was Terra-level all along.
tandr··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
I am afraid to ask for the price multiplier here. And it will burn your weekly allowance not in 1 day, but in 3 hours now? Or just one?
tandr··on English: A vs. An
But... "So do you want _a_ specific thing, or will any thing work?" sounds kind of correct as well to me. (Disclaimer: I am not native speaker, grain of salt and all.)
tandr··on Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
They forgot to run a (same) model to optimize article for reading speed
tandr··on So you want to use OpenRouter?
DigitalOcean is bad not just through OR... Direct accesss through DO gave me such a miniscule context and maximum tokens, it was pretty much unusable. So, accessing it through OpenRouter gave bigger context length, but model behaves like it was seriously damaged - tool calling was producing paths that had / replaced with some other symbols, files were not found etc., and this is just for things that errored out, I have no idea how bad reasoning was. I had to blacklist DO completely on OpenRouter.
tandr··on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

    > Granted, I was trying to have it solve a hard problem that 5.6 Sol couldn't solve, but still.
Did it solve it?
tandr··on Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
Wait, you have noticed it too? I burned through weekly limit in 25 hours after last reset on Thursday, without changing what I was doing before that.

Interestingly enough, previous subscription to Plus gave me about 2-3 days of coding. So I switched to Pro Light now, gave me about the same amount for a week or so (G-d bless these quota resets of theirs!). Now, with the last reset I only gathered 25 hours before I hit my weekly limit. Now I am buying credits, I switched to Luna to execute very narrow sets of patches, and offload things to "free" Spark model, and it is blowing through tokens less actively, but noticeable quickly too. I am not sure if it is something with how tokens are counted, or how they are counted depending where you are in a subscription cycle. Could it be that one person's "limit" is not the same as another, trying to push you to buy token credits?

tandr··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
To end up on your phone, VOIP have to terminate somewhere in local phone network. These networks need to stop accepting calls from shady places, or every call like this that they cannot charge back to original (or intermediary network) becomes a loss to them. And telecom companies do not like losses...
tandr··on OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment
Somehow reminds me of JetBrain's new Air [1] platform (still in beta I think) - make multiple agents working, monitoring, basic code and diff viewing.

[1] https://air.dev/

tandr··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Well, technically it is their hardware now...
tandr··on Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle
Remove permission to execute JavaScript (in your browser) on sites that use html-load.com and error-report.com in addition to blocking these two in DNS. Solved it for me, don't know for how long.
tandr··on ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files
Thank you for the quick answer.
tandr··on ZeroFS vs. Amazon S3 Files
I'm thinking about using this and have a few questions:

    1. How are hardlinks and duplicate files (same content, different paths) handled?
    2. Does deduplication work on a block/chunk level for partially matching files, or does it only look at whole files?
    3. Is there any specific integration or handling for Copy-on-Write (CoW)?
Thank you!
tandr··on GPT-5.6
Which provider do you use, if you don't mind sharing? I tried Digital Ocean (looking for Zero retention and no training), but their context limits are rather small for DeepSeek inference.
tandr··on GPT-5.6
Still fun to watch models trying their best :). I think "money spent" metric in this test is becoming the most interesting to watch. It is like looking at RT cost of "Hello, world!"...
tandr··on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
Thank you. Reminds me my struggle with a new cellphone about 6 or so years ago (don't remember the brand :(). Random reboots when I was using Maps (a very scary thing when you are driving in a new country), corrupted memory card and lost images, random freezing. Call quality was ok, pictures were so-so, but it is just like you said - things around main function - that's what makes or breaks the experience. On paper the phone looked really good, but the experience as whole was awful. Got back from the trip, returned phone back to Costco...
tandr··on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
Thank you. If you don't mind me asking - which part of driving experience made you think "never again"?
tandr··on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
As far as I can see on Wikipedia page or homepage for Stellantis, they do not make cars under their own name. So, which brand did you rent actually?
tandr··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
Thank you.
tandr··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
Would you be kind and recalculate this per person in each province? Thank you!
tandr··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
Man... Does it mean that buying RTX 6000 for 10k today is actually becoming an investment?
tandr··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
Don't mind me asking, but where did you find $5k RTX 6000? Even 48GB model (previous gen) shows minimum at 7k, and 96GB one (Blackwell) is ~10k on Amazon...
tandr··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
If you sort that table by "output token price", it gets really terrifying - going from 4 cents up to $600 =8-O
tandr··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
"Hey Opus, create me an fully tested code base for Oracle-like DB from scratch. Don't overcomplicate it, so it should be ready with when I get back from lunch"?
tandr··on Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Wow... How (in)competent is his management??? "If Oracle can do it"... in 25 years with 1k devs...
tandr··on dBase: 1979-2026
Probably because '<=' is very easily read as "less or equal"? (unless you are joking, of course)
tandr··on Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive
Or malloc(), or open()... They kind of discussing it in the thread on how to prevent this from a malicious actor (or from footgunning yourself), but my understanding it is not all that plain and simple...
tandr··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
thank you! That was quite educational.
tandr··on Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Thank you!
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