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New comment by aleqs in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

aleqs — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:25:25 +0000

The problem is, in the minds of these people 'firing at 100% all the time' generally means doing busywork and/or thinking of ways to cheat/manipulate their customers and the market for maximum gain whole delivering minimum value. I would have loved to be 100% engaged working on solving real problems in honest ways at some of my past jobs, but alas MBA/marketing leadership, which has taken over much of tech has very little interest in actually building good things and solving real problems in honest ways.

New comment by aleqs in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

aleqs — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:17:40 +0000

I think the problem is even more general than that, and has existed since before LLMs. All of the decision makers are incentivized to chase short term gains and ignore everything else. Many tech companies already had huge gaps in knowledge around their own codebases simply because such knowledge and expertise is basically treated as a liability/expense rather than an asset.

I'm actually very optimistic about LLMs/AI for basically the opposite reason tech leadership/MBAs are - I think it will allow us to overcome organizational/business/marketing ing hurdles that tech companies rely on short-sighted MBA-style 'leadership' for in the first place. And not because I believe in OpenAI and Anthropic - I think the future is self-hosted or community -hosted open models, and open collaboration among willing peers, building open software to solve real problems in honest ways, rather than hierarchical top-down corporate hellholes pumping out pre-enshitified crapware full of ads, tracking and dark patterns.

New comment by aleqs in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

aleqs — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:26:37 +0000

I think intelligence per compute will go up significantly in the coming years, while the cost per compute will drop significantly. No way to know for sure, so I guess we'll see

New comment by aleqs in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

aleqs — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:54:02 +0000

Indeed, I feel like we are in the early computer equivalent phase of AI, where giant expensive hardware is still required for frontier models. In 5 years I bet there will be fully open models we'll be able to run on a few $1000 of consumer hardware with equivalent performance to opus 4.7/4.6.

New comment by aleqs in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

aleqs — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:43:38 +0000

The usage metering is just so incredibly inconsistent, sometimes 4 parallel Opus sessions for 3 hours straight on max effort only uses up 70% of a session, other times 20 mins / 3 prompts in one session completely maxes it out. (Max x20 plan) Is this just a bug on anthropic side or is the usage metering just completely opaque and arbitrary?