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New comment by byzantinegene in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

byzantinegene — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:48:13 +0000

how have you coded before the era of llms?

New comment by byzantinegene in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

byzantinegene — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:44:00 +0000

it's not worth $5000 if people are not willing to pay that amount for it

New comment by byzantinegene in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

byzantinegene — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:12:49 +0000

good article!

New comment by byzantinegene in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

byzantinegene — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:03:58 +0000

the problem now is how much can they hike the costs without people just going back to coding by hand.

New comment by byzantinegene in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

byzantinegene — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:54:40 +0000

too bad search is gradually made obsolete by ai

New comment by byzantinegene in "The sudden fall of Sora"

byzantinegene — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:17:02 +0000

even more reason to cheer for the rest of us

New comment by byzantinegene in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

byzantinegene — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:33:55 +0000

from experience, AI is bad at TDD. they can infer tests based on written code, but are bad at writing generalised test unless a clear requirement is given, so you the engineer is doing most of the work anyway.

New comment by byzantinegene in "The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)"

byzantinegene — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:28:40 +0000

seems like a security risk

New comment by byzantinegene in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

byzantinegene — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:20:15 +0000

i'm sorry but that will take another $20 billion in AI capex to train our latest SOTA model so that it will cost $20k to improve the code.

New comment by byzantinegene in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

byzantinegene — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:08:48 +0000

no, and that is widely known. the actual problem is that the margins are not sufficient at that scale to make up for the gargantuan training costs to train their SOTA model.

New comment by byzantinegene in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

byzantinegene — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:45:54 +0000

it costs $20,000 to reinvent the wheel, that it probably trained on. If that's your definition of legit, sure

New comment by byzantinegene in "50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the 'software pirates'"

byzantinegene — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:55:23 +0000

Maybe true, may not be. But based on track record, i wouldn't put it past him

New comment by byzantinegene in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

byzantinegene — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:33:41 +0000

the fall of openai can easily have a domino effect on the rest of the ai landscape

New comment by byzantinegene in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

byzantinegene — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:21:32 +0000

good luck with that when there's gemini which does it far better

New comment by byzantinegene in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

byzantinegene — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:02:21 +0000

if it isn't obvious already, his plan is to get other companies to train juniors so AWS can poach them when they become seniors

New comment by byzantinegene in "Eating stinging nettles"

byzantinegene — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 03:56:43 +0000

as a pork lover, I'd say the sacrifices are well worth it

New comment by byzantinegene in "Responses from LLMs are not facts"

byzantinegene — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:57:43 +0000

the llm itself does not do that, the web search tool does that

New comment by byzantinegene in "ChatGPT Atlas"

byzantinegene — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:44:55 +0000

yes a 100ms search still beats a prompt that takes several seconds to return a response everytime

New comment by byzantinegene in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

byzantinegene — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:41:43 +0000

tiktok seems to be the primary medium by which Gen Alpha obtain their news and knowledge

New comment by byzantinegene in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

byzantinegene — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 04:35:36 +0000

more likely to be used as a reserve to buy up the trillion dollar national debt