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winstonp··on Web Search API
Their free tier for stuff like Workers and D1 is quite generous.
winstonp··on Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
The only additional note I'd have to add is Tomlin was one of the NFL's rare "CEO" coaches - he doesn't call plays for either side of the ball, so he probably is ever so slightly less busy than a head coach who happens to do so.
winstonp··on Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster
the codex desktop app bundles libreoffice's libraries. i wouldn't be surprised if claude does something similar.
winstonp··on New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore
the salary weighted lottery today is a good step in the right direction IMO.
winstonp··on Muse Spark 1.3
It's the perfect model for open-source work because it's gonna end up in the training data anyway
winstonp··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
I think it's overbloating my computer
winstonp··on Don't paste the AI, please
It's a habit in specific countries, China is one in my experience.
winstonp··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Cursor was 60B. The 10B number was the breakup fee if the deal fell through.
winstonp··on Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max
16 tokens / s is not nothing.
winstonp··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Apple isn't counting on their model to be a frontier coding and cowork model. Gemini is perfectly fine for the tasks that new Siri is supposed to be doing.
winstonp··on Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
That is not the Grok CLI being discussed. That's an open source, third party CLI. https://x.ai/cli is the official Grok CLI being discussed, and it is not open source.
winstonp··on Introducing Muse Spark 1.1
The avg coding session has hundreds or thousands of tool calls. Even a 5% failure rate noticeably notches up token use and cost. See Gemini.
winstonp··on Grok 4.5
Doubt. Tried it, Grok 4.5 is leaps and bounds ahead of Gemini for real work.

And token costs vs. raw compute+electric cost is unit profitable too.

winstonp··on Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough
While I mostly agree with your post, I do want to point out one thing:

> Or he could release a model trained largely by existing open weights models. Which without some huge breakthrough probably has no chance of surpassing them, so is pointless.

This seems to be categorically untrue. Composer 2.5 is a substantial improvement on its underlying Kimi base model.

winstonp··on Claude Sonnet 5
same happened to Opus 4.7
winstonp··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
the British are notoriously sensitive to heat. They'll call 30 Celsius weather a heat wave.
winstonp··on The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars
do we think he found it on craigslist
winstonp··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
Gemini pretty clearly has the best underlying model, and the worst RL and post-training of the lot.
winstonp··on Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?
It is ridiculous to be building infrastructure with a seventy five year lifespan under an assumption that may never come in its entire life.
winstonp··on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users
Car apps, beside Tesla, are universally awful to use. Even Tesla's is not beyond reproach (app size is massive, for one), but at least it doesn't make me want to poke my eyes out. Apple should make a "Cars" app that's like the "Watch" app and let them standardize.
winstonp··on The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety
They are absolutely clueless about how to talk to this administration.
winstonp··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
CC TUI is often a culprit of memory leaks, image-pasting is a nightmare, particularly over SSH, flickering all over the UI, among others.
winstonp··on Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]
You can!

You just have to pay API prices.

winstonp··on Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]
google models are still very unreliable at actually calling the tools you want it to call.
winstonp··on Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers
I don't believe Anthropic trains on Trainium, only serves models on it.
winstonp··on MiMo Code is now released and open-source
Claude Code TUI is garbage. There's nothing worth protecting in there.
winstonp··on Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated
I do think Anthropic nailed their naming down much better than OpenAI
winstonp··on Claude Fable 5
OpenAI's training is better suited to developing models that don't have these tendencies
winstonp··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
I've never had a smelly Mac, and I've owned maybe 10 different ones across personal and various work laptops. And 90% of devs I've ever met have used Macs and none of them smell either, so it's zero out of maybe 200+ in my personal experience.
winstonp··on Google Hates You
Google Search has been awful for the last couple of years. Good riddance to SEO.
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