https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

Actually, who owns that domain? It might be time for a revival.

There's gobs of amazing technology being built by people who just love to build, have great ideas, and huge talent (now exponentially compounded by LLM assistance, even) -- and 99% of it is ignored by people with $$ and none of them will be paid to work on these things -- let alone get funded to build a business around them -- and the reason isn't the inadequacy of the technology or "lack of a workable business plan": it's lack of social connections or pedigree.

And what this tells me is two things

1. there's a fundamentally sickness to the VC culture coming out of Silicon Valley and it's gotten worse not better with the new restraints in the post-ZIRP era. It's an echo chamber and a social circle, not a means for creating new profitable companies or good infrastructure, and it serves mainly just to feed a pipeline of acquisitions into much bigger fish rather than building tomorrow's new businesses or ideas. This is very different from 80s, 90s tech culture that I grew up in.

2. there's clearly a desperate need for more actual incubators or labs for actual technology, paying people to build "good stuff" independent of the vagaries of what VCs and their ivy league friends are able to pitch.

Frankly: The $$ out there in heavy circulation has been mostly corrosive, not helpful.

I see it's $81/quarter, but it's also not clear to me from what I've seen from people's postings that it actually gives you immediate access to new models as they come and whether there's usage limits and such.

The other advantage of just using API is that one is free to use other less expensive, free, or local models for more routine grunt work stuff

The rapid dispersal of our species over literally the entire planet (minus Antarctica) likely also has a lot to do with constantly moving on to new opportunities further away from rivals.

That said, starting in about the 18th century we ran out of new places for that. And intensification truly began.

Providers like DeepInfra are already giving access to 5.1 https://deepinfra.com/zai-org/GLM-5.1

$1.40 in $4.40 out $0.26 cached

/ 1M tokens

That's more expensive than other models, but not terrible, and will go down over time, and is far far cheaper than Opus or Sonnet or GPT.

I haven't had any bad luck with DeepInfra in particular with quantization or rate limiting. But I've only heard bad things about people who used z.ai directly.

It's very surgical and careful around incremental refactoring, etc. but it also doesn't avoid responsibility.

I don't trust the code that Claude writes at all, if I have to use it (they gave me a free month recently, so I use it...) I not only review it carefully but have Codex do a thorough review.

Claude "cheats" and leaves hacks and has Dunning-Kruger.

All of this is very exhausting. I am enjoying writing my own code with these tools (to get long running personal projects out the door) but the effect that these tools are having on teams is terrifyingly corrosive and it's making me want to take an early retirement from the profession.

Yes we can write a lot of code quickly. But at what cost? And what even use is all this code now anyways?

Antigravity wants me to switch IDEs, and I'm not going to do that.

Unfortunately gemini as a coding agent is a steaming useless pile. They have no right selling it, cheap open weight Chinese models are better at this point.

It's not stupid it just is incompetent at tool use and makes bad mistakes. It constantly gets itself into weird dysfunctional loops when doing basic things like editing files.

I'm not sure what GOOG employees are using internally, but I hope they're not being saddled with Gemini 3.1. It's miles behind.

Love seeing our Ontario native Jeremy Hansen on the microphone, and those two flags properly positioned beside each other.

I'm not a Christian today, but was raised that way. This is the hopeful message I want to see on this day, and the true meaning of the symbol. Hope for all humankind. Working together.

https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc

I actually work the other way around. I have codex write "packets" to give to claude to write. I have Claude write the code. Then have Codex review it and find all the problems (there's usually lots of them).

Only because this month I have the $100 Claude Code and the $20 Codex. I did not renew Anthropic though.

On top of that their $20 plan has much higher usage limits than Anthropic's $20 plan and they allow its use in e.g. opencode. So you can set up opencode to use both OpenAI's codex plan plus one of the more intelligent Chinese models so you can maximize your usage. Have it fully plan things out using GPT 5.4, write code using e.g. Qwen 3.6, then switch back to GPT 5.4 for review

I am not a free market capitalist, I am a socialist; but I also believe in decentralizing decision making because centralized systems run by self-proclaimed people-of-merit always produces bad outcomes in the long run; left or right.

Having to find consensus is messy and difficult but always wins out in the long run.

Among many so-called "populist" politicians you will find very intensely elitist and anti-democratic belief systems, just kept quite mute.