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New comment by chrsw in "Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'"

chrsw — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:00:29 +0000

I don't understand how people are so certain on how this will play out. We have people basically saying companies like Anthropic offer no value because open source models are free. Then we have others saying once frontier AI labs go RSI FOOM takeoff they'll essentially _become_ the tech industry.

None of this sounds credible.

New comment by chrsw in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

chrsw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:48:42 +0000

A hybrid approach might work better for robotics. A model-in-silicon for body control and sensing, then a different model on processors for reasoning, speech and decision making.

New comment by chrsw in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

chrsw — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:57:09 +0000

No, there still plenty of tasks that LLMs can’t do well or at all. Yes, we should absolutely make models cheaper but there’s a long way to go until they’re “good enough”. And I’m talking about the frontier closed models too, not just the open ones. So it’s not an “instead of” position we’re in. It’s both.

New comment by chrsw in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

chrsw — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:11:23 +0000

Imagine if a car company like Ford or Toyota came out and said their new cars are kind of out of control and they needed special indemnities and protection from liabilities if they want to keep selling cars.

New comment by chrsw in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

chrsw — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:08:15 +0000

You can use open weights models right now and ignore all this fuss. And by the time open weights models are objectively and subjectively on par with what Fable/Astra are today, the frontier labs will probably offer something newer, more capable and more expensive. The models OpenAI and Anthropic roll out clearly aren’t for people on a strict budget.

Maybe one day open weights and closed models will hit the same wall?

New comment by chrsw in "Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'"

chrsw — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:40:35 +0000

Would a 100% compatible and open source CUDA stack be “competition” too?

New comment by chrsw in "There are no "rogue" AI agents"

chrsw — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:17:57 +0000

We need to immediately set the precedent that ultimately humans and companies are responsible for what their AI systems do.

New comment by chrsw in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

chrsw — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:48:26 +0000

Interesting.

And I also found the video I was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHQfmJEpRmU

New comment by chrsw in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

chrsw — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:08:19 +0000

I heard someone who studies this sort of thing say basically what biological neurons are trying to do is predict as well. Predicting what exactly? I’m not sure. The next time they should fire or something. I can’t find the YouTube video now.

New comment by chrsw in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

chrsw — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:12:31 +0000

I don’t think that’s what’s going on. I notice flaws on day one of model releases. But I also notice improvements if the model is truly more advanced than what I’m used to. Then over time the same questions or tasks return worse results.

What is actually stopping these model companies from running a model at full capacity on release then once its name rings out, start serving users quantized garbage?

New comment by chrsw in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

chrsw — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:09:18 +0000

600 sq ft is about the size of my apartment, which at market rate is about $3k/mo.

New comment by chrsw in "Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases"

chrsw — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:50:07 +0000

Interesting approach. I would like to see a benchmark like this without web or mobile app code. In fact just: systems code (operating systems, drivers, low level applications), libraries, native apps, firmware, robotics software, signal processing, embedded code, bare-metal, RTOS, hardware design languages, EDA tools, etc.

New comment by chrsw in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

chrsw — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:17:15 +0000

That says more about the dire state of the industry than Apple’s own engineering preferences and their brand optics.

New comment by chrsw in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

chrsw — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:41:52 +0000

I agree we’d switch to it. I guess what I’m doubting is if a company can recover from that sort of stumble in the first place. And they might not want to either. They might think there’s more value somewhere else besides trying to get back to the absolute performance and capability frontier. Smaller models targeted to specific domains that large models would be too inefficient at no matter how large they get or how clever you are at distillation, for example.

New comment by chrsw in "GPT-6 Astra"

chrsw — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:26:33 +0000

I can call a coworker right now and have a real time conversation with them without feeling like I’m talking to a frustrating machine. Most of them, anyway. But I guess that’s “moving the goalposts”.

New comment by chrsw in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

chrsw — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:13:51 +0000

Do labs come back from disasters like GDM’s 3.5 pretrain? I am thinking of Meta’s Llama 4. Meta is just now starting to be taken seriously again but they are definitely not at the frontier. And when I say “come back” I mean have an Opus 4.5 moment, which was really mind blowing for me at the time. Fable was a similar leap, just not as big.

New comment by chrsw in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

chrsw — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:45:59 +0000

Where I’m from $25k is the down payment on a parking space in a garage, not an entire house (or condo).

Mold: A Parallel Linker

chrsw — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:08:31 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433376

Points: 4

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New comment by chrsw in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

chrsw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:02:43 +0000

Only the Chinese authorities can stop Chinese labs from distilling from western labs. And they won’t do that, for obvious reasons.

New comment by chrsw in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

chrsw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:58:22 +0000

At some point it won’t be realistic to ask a human to solve a technical problem any more. I’m not suggesting it will happen soon but I can at least imagine that day coming. Whereas before modern “AI”, that possibility wasn’t even on my radar.