Hacker News: aliljet

New comment by aliljet in "Bring your own Agent to MS Teams"

aliljet — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:12:12 +0000

How many levels of agents are here. Agents riding code by agents in a system driven by agents vibed by one lonely engineer in Redmond?

New comment by aliljet in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

aliljet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:52:02 +0000

The real problem is that scientists doing this sort of early work more often than not want to burn hardware under their desks. Renting infrastructure in Google cloud isn't the only way...

New comment by aliljet in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

aliljet — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:21:21 +0000

I am hopeful that OpenAI will potentially offer clarity on their loss-leading subscription model. I'd prefer to know the real cost of a token from OpenAI as opposed to praying the venture-funded tokens will always be this cheap.

New comment by aliljet in "Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)"

aliljet — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:32:49 +0000

I've been looking for broken 3090s for a short while. And the whole market is funny. Most of these devices have had their VRAM and GPUs physically harvested (for no clear reason). The ones that are truly broken, however, are still trading in the ~$300 range making me think they're destined for more harvesting. Where are people buying these repairable GPUs? I'd gladly take the gamble for fun, honestly, less profit.

New comment by aliljet in "Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons"

aliljet — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:34:20 +0000

This is the rugpull that is starting to push me to reconsider my use of Claude subscriptions. The "free ride" part of this being funded as a loss leader is coming to a close. While we break away from Claude, my hope is that I can continue to send simple problems to very smart local llms (qwen 3.6, I see you) and reserve Claude for purely extreme problems appropriate for it's extreme price.

New comment by aliljet in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

aliljet — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:46:27 +0000

First, making sure to offer an upvote here. I happen to be VERY enthusiastic about local models, but I've found them to be incredibly hard to host, incredibly hard to harness, and, despite everything, remarkably powerful if you are willing to suffer really poor token/second performance...

New comment by aliljet in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

aliljet — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:43:51 +0000

What open models are truly competing with both Claude Code and Opus 4.7 (xhigh) at this stage?

New comment by aliljet in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

aliljet — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:09:14 +0000

This is the reality I'm seeing too. Does this mean that the subscriptions (5x, 10x, 20x) are essentially reduced in token-count by 20-30%?

New comment by aliljet in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

aliljet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:52:38 +0000

I'm really curious about what competes with Claude Code to drive a local LLM like Qwen 3.6?

New comment by aliljet in "Claude Opus 4.7"

aliljet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:57:07 +0000

wait. that's insanity. where did you get those numbers from? the 5x plan is obviously the right place to be...

New comment by aliljet in "Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card"

aliljet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:01:04 +0000

Have they effectively communicated what a 20x or 10x Claude subscription actually means? And with Claude 4.7 increasing usage by 1.35x does that mean a 20x plan is now really a 13x plan (no token increase on the subscription) or a 27x plan (more tokens given to compensate for more computer cost) relative to Claude Opus 4.6?

New comment by aliljet in "Claude Opus 4.7"

aliljet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:54:20 +0000

New comment by aliljet in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

aliljet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:41:48 +0000

I'm broadly curious how people are using these local models. Literally, how are they attaching harnesses to this and finding more value than just renting tokens from Anthropic of OpenAI?

New comment by aliljet in "Extra usage credit for Claude to celebrate usage bundles launch (Pro, Max, Team)"

aliljet — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:55:49 +0000

I'm honestly curious who on these plans that's not working with an unlimited enterprise budget would even choose to burn real dollars like this beyond the subscription? What is the personal use case? It seems exorbitantly expensive after you've exhausted your subscription.

New comment by aliljet in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

aliljet — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:03:32 +0000

There's a weird 'token anxiety' you get on these platforms. And you basically don't know how much of this 'limit' you may consume at any time. And you actually don't even know what the 'limit' is or how it's calculated. So far, people have just assumed Anthropic will do the kind thing and give you more than you could ever use...

New comment by aliljet in "OpenRocket"

aliljet — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:53:19 +0000

I wonder how crazy the scale here can get. How far can I go? The bps.space guy is heading into space. Can the community hit the moon? Literally.

New comment by aliljet in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

aliljet — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:33:43 +0000

As crazy as this seems, it's unlocking another variation of software engineering I didn't think was accessible. Previously, super entrenched and wicked expensive systems that might have taken years of engineering effort, appear to be ripe for disruption suddenly. The era of software systems with deeply engineered connectivity seem to be on the outs...

New comment by aliljet in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

aliljet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:42:24 +0000

Are there evals showing how this improves outputs?

New comment by aliljet in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

aliljet — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:20:25 +0000

There's a vibe in at least the PNW that feels like the tech sector is sloughing jobs and avoiding creating new ones courtesy of AI. I genuinely wonder if that feeling is backed by reality and whether it's large enough to be translating into national statistics across all industries.

New comment by aliljet in "Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide"

aliljet — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:40:13 +0000

Does fine tuning really improve anything above just pure RAG approaches for usee cases that involve tons of direct document context?