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New comment by RussianCow in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

RussianCow — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:51:07 +0000

> The models themselves are the problem -- most large US companies are not going to touch them.

Can you expand on this?

New comment by RussianCow in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

RussianCow — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:50:09 +0000

By "cost" I think the parent means the provider's own costs, not the cost of inference to the customer. The cost of land, labor, and electricity are significantly lower in China than in the US.

New comment by RussianCow in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

RussianCow — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:03:33 +0000

> Qwen 3.7 models run by providers in EU, US, & Singapore that OpenCode FAQ claims don't use retained data for training.

Note: Alibaba Cloud is the only company that currently offers Qwen 3.7 models (they haven't released any open weight versions yet), and according to OpenRouter, they retain prompts for an unknown period. So they might not explicitly use your data for training, but they do store it indefinitely on their servers and can potentially[0] use it for all sorts of other purposes.

[0]: Disclaimer: I haven't read their privacy policy. Just pointing out that it's not so simple.

New comment by RussianCow in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

RussianCow — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:26:44 +0000

Product management is its own skill, and few true domain expects have it. Without some form of PM, the resulting software will end up a mess due to poor UX, too much bloat, etc.

I think AI is going to force most software engineers to pick up this skill in some form. Building is easy; knowing what to build is the hard part.

New comment by RussianCow in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

RussianCow — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:13:39 +0000

That ship has sailed. Anyone who works in a field is now considered a domain expert (or "SME") even if they're nothing of the sort. There should ideally be another term that's a superset, but I doubt it would ever catch on.

New comment by RussianCow in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

RussianCow — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:58:03 +0000

If you need mobile check deposit, you can only do that from a mobile device.

New comment by RussianCow in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

RussianCow — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:37:01 +0000

Sure, if you're made of money. For the rest of us, AMD gives you more bang for your buck. Though in this market, it's hard to argue that any of them give you good value.

New comment by RussianCow in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

RussianCow — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:14:04 +0000

> the moat any single org has is somewhat limited

I disagree. The models are going to become commodities (we're already almost there), but the tooling and integrations will be the moat. Reproducing everything Anthropic has already built with Claude Code, Cowork, and all their connectors would be nontrivial, and they're just getting started.

Anyone can implement an AI chatbot. But few will be able to provide AI that's deeply integrated into our daily lives.

New comment by RussianCow in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

RussianCow — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:32:05 +0000

I didn't say free. They've had a highly discounted, ad-supported plan for a few years now. It's relevant because OpenAI also introduced a cheaper monthly plan that includes ads.

New comment by RussianCow in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

RussianCow — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:19:07 +0000

But the fact that they've added an ad-supported tier this early into their life as a company means they're desperate for revenue. You start inserting ads when you're optimizing for profit, not when you're still growing. It took how long for Netflix to introduce an ad-supported plan?

Pgrust: Rebuilding Postgres in Rust with AI

RussianCow — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:52:59 +0000

Article URL: https://malisper.me/pgrust-rebuilding-postgres-in-rust-with-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870335

Points: 3

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New comment by RussianCow in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

RussianCow — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:31:13 +0000

I'm not the OP, but it's the latter. I'm currently using the "Lite" GLM subscription with OpenCode, for example. I'm not using it very heavily, but I haven't come close to hitting the limits, whereas I burned through my weekly limits with Claude very regularly.

New comment by RussianCow in "Installing every* Firefox extension"

RussianCow — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:18:04 +0000

I have a vivid memory of once looking over someone's shoulder in the IE days and being horrified to see toolbars taking up about 80% of the available screen real estate, leaving only maybe 150-200 pixels of vertical space for actual web browsing. I have no idea how they got anything done, and my guess was they never actually used any of the installed toolbars and just thought that was normal.

New comment by RussianCow in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

RussianCow — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:23:34 +0000

> Didn't a court in the US declare that AI generated content cannot be copyrighted?

No, my understanding is that AI generated content can't be copyrighted by the AI. A human can still copyright it, however.

New comment by RussianCow in "Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)"

RussianCow — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:23:06 +0000

I honestly can't say I've ever seen a non-techie expand a window to full screen using the green button on macOS. I'm not sure why, because in theory, I agree with you.

New comment by RussianCow in "Apple Business"

RussianCow — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:04:22 +0000

Intel. That's good to know! Do you know why this is? Presumably because of the shared memory pool across CPU/GPU, or are there other factors?

New comment by RussianCow in "Apple Business"

RussianCow — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:01:25 +0000

> Theirs simply no reason for any normal person to buy anything else.

My wife currently has an old MacBook with 8GB of memory, and she hits the memory limit somewhat regularly just from web browsing and light productivity work. But whether more breathing room in terms of memory is worth almost double the price...

New comment by RussianCow in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

RussianCow — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:36:01 +0000

I know this is happening with external customer support, but is this really happening internally at big companies? Preventing you from talking to a human in the correct department about an issue feels like a bomb waiting to explode.

New comment by RussianCow in "Introducing Composer 2"

RussianCow — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:31:58 +0000

I'm excited to try this. My coding workflow lately has been to whip up detailed plans with Opus, leaving little to no ambiguity, and hand them off to Composer 1.5 to execute. Composer isn't the smartest model and ends up needing some hand-holding sometimes, but it does a good enough job, and it's so damn fast that I can iterate on the result a few times before Opus would have finished. (And that's not to mention the cost difference, especially with Composer now being charged from the much larger "Auto" pool.)

If Composer 2 is as big a leap as they claim, I might start using it exclusively for anything that's not terribly complicated, including planning. The speed and cost effectiveness are just hard to beat.

New comment by RussianCow in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

RussianCow — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:31:48 +0000

That's a completely separate codebase that purposefully breaks backwards compatibility in specific areas to achieve their goals. That's not the same as having a first-class JIT in CPython, the actual Python implementation that ~everyone uses.