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New comment by abraxas in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

abraxas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:07:19 +0000

Some oligarchs are making out like bandits. This is russia level kleptocracy.

New comment by abraxas in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

abraxas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:47:03 +0000

I think a lot of users likely use these models on small hobby projects and not some convoluted enterprise code base. When you're making yet another Space Invaders clone it really won't show much difference. Messy, complex code bases with layers of cruft from decades of patching - that's what separates the model boys from men.

New comment by abraxas in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

abraxas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:43:48 +0000

Just because Anthropic chose to implement it like this. But the directive specifically targets non-US nationals.

New comment by abraxas in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

abraxas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:37:43 +0000

It's not about cutting edge or not. Fable was able to tear through stuff and always diligent about its own work. In terms of output quality and completeness it was in a league of its own. It will be missed.

New comment by abraxas in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

abraxas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:28:18 +0000

Ah, so US citizens are so pure of heart that they can have access it's just the smelly ferigners that must be locked out?

New comment by abraxas in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

abraxas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:22:31 +0000

Working on my codebase (~100KLoC across multiple Python modules) I felt that Fable was head and shoulders above 4.x series. It was just relentless and always hell bent on testing and proving its own work. It just tore through problems like an animal. I never seen that behaviour in 4.5-4.8. I can't speak for OpenAI models as I don't use them but Fable was in a different league. Especially when tasked with long horizon goals that involved reasoning at a high and low level to solve the task.

New comment by abraxas in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

abraxas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:51:39 +0000

Pure vendetta by the capricious king wannabe. The US is so fucked.

New comment by abraxas in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

abraxas — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:57:23 +0000

I think this says more about "modern" UI than it does about AI slop. The awfulness of all this comes mostly from the fact that widgets no longer have consistent shape, theme or interaction behaviour ever since desktop paridigms and original Xerox/Parc research were abandoned in favour of web slop. So yeah, this is much more Web Slop than AI Slop. AI is just amplifying it.

New comment by abraxas in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

abraxas — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:17:43 +0000

We have the "social media" companies to thank for this innovation. They introduced these stupid patterns primarily to keep users locked into their walled gardens and the rest of the industry followed them to the bad place like lemmings. Software is a fashion industry.

New comment by abraxas in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

abraxas — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:54:21 +0000

No it won't. Everyone knows their favourite film director.

Virtually nobody has their favourite app developer.

New comment by abraxas in "This creepy blob robot will keep going even if you break its legs"

abraxas — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:48:17 +0000

Right and ready for the new season of "Black Mirror"

New comment by abraxas in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

abraxas — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:29:20 +0000

I'm sorry but sometimes performance is not everything. Apple silicon - great except you are now in the Apple walled garden with all the consequences of it. Not to mention perpetually subpar developer experience without the rich Linux/Docker ecosystem. Yes, I know it is getting better but for developers there are still many warts. We just retired the last OSX laptops from my dev team because they were unproductive trying to work around some Docker limitations on OSX/Apple silicon.

New comment by abraxas in "Claude Opus 4.8"

abraxas — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:07:25 +0000

You're absolutely right - and I should have tempered that behavior. When the next version lands you get much better responses. Not just trite analogies. Really well spoken responses that earn their keep.

New comment by abraxas in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

abraxas — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:45:27 +0000

No other LLM has made as much child porn as grok so there is that...

New comment by abraxas in "AI Product Graveyard"

abraxas — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:28:50 +0000

Streamlit seems very much alive. I used it on and off in the past. Went to their website and it looks very much alive.

Ditto for Weights and Biases.

New comment by abraxas in "Does Postgres Scale?"

abraxas — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:35:37 +0000

if the index updates are your bottleneck you can often get away with using a much lighter index (for example BRIN) at a cost of slightly slower queries. This is very often a great and much overlooked tradeoff.

New comment by abraxas in "Tiled Words 6 Month Update"

abraxas — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:22:51 +0000

On custom colour themes. I have no good ideas. I just know when I like a theme and when I don't. The deafaults in the game, are.... not great for me. Especially the light theme (I generally prefer light themes). I use the dark theme in the game now because light is not that great but dark is also a bit ho hum. So maybe a theme store would be good? A buck a theme or something? I'd rather not do theme imports etc. Too much work and I don't know what I'd like. I'd rather just swipe through a bunch of themes and hit "buy/pick" when I find one I enjoy. That's all.

One small feature I'd propose is that maybe you want to have a "hard mode" baked in where no hints are available? I personally do not use hints to solve the puzzles. I can usually piece everything together just with what's on the board and the word descriptions and never reach for hints. Hints feel a bit like a cop out so I avoid them. Maybe having this as a different game mode is a good idea? I'm not sure - it depends on the complexity of your implementation of you want to create a feature flag or not.

New comment by abraxas in "Tiled Words 6 Month Update"

abraxas — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:10:18 +0000

my biggest ask would be for custom colour themes? And maybe a one-time paid app to avoid any future ads (if you are thinking of going down that road). An app or a game with ads and no way to pay my way out of them is an instant uninstall.

Someone in another comment mentioned that they do a timed challenge with friends. This would require signup etc. Even though I sometimes do a race against my son I'd probably not sign up/register just to do this. But if it's purely optional then I think there is some merit there and people who are signup happy may take advantage.

I may also like to see perhaps a second (premium) daily challenge. Not unlimited mode because that would just make me gorge on it and get fed up. But two daily challenges instead of 1 might be something to ponder. Maybe even for a small pay? Just don't make it obnoxious with nags and popups etc.

New comment by abraxas in "Tiled Words 6 Month Update"

abraxas — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:55:52 +0000

Thank you for this. Tiled Words is a morning ritual for me now. It's a brief part of my day when I sit down with a coffee and solve it just before starting my work. It's a part of my day I most look forward to. Thank you again.

EDIT: if there is a tip jar or a paid tier for the game, I'll be very happy to chip in!

New comment by abraxas in "We Are (Still) Living in the Long Boring"

abraxas — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:34:23 +0000

I'm recycling below a comment[1] I made a few days ago very similar in tone to what the article conveys in a longer form. Unlike the author I believe that the LLM revolution is indeed the most transformative change in technology that my generation and the younger have wiwitnessed. Whether it's going to amount to much more is to be seen, I do agree with the author but unlike him I'm somewhat hopeful and perhaps more credulous.

1. "As someone born in 1975 I always felt until the last couple of years that I had been stuck in a long period of stagnation compared to an earlier generation. My grandmother who was born in the 1910s got to witness adoption of electricity, mass transit, radio, television, telephony, jet flights and even space exploration before I was born. Feels like now is a bit of a catchup after pretty tepid period that was most of my life."