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New comment by ealready_value in "Claude Fable 5"

ealready_value — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:15:24 +0000

This is the reply I look for in all the new model announcements. Its fun to tell people that I judge models based on pelicans.

New comment by ealready_value in "Would you pay once (no subscription) for prebuilt Claude Code agents?"

ealready_value — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:02:35 +0000

I'm not one to buy these types of things so I don't want to sound like a good data point. But from the outside, I do worry that the current rate of change with LLMs might mean there could be hesitation around buying agents. Will buyers hesitate if they don't know if the next sonnet version means the agent no longer works at all or work in surprising or bad ways? I'm not sure its a real concern, but its my first thought.

New comment by ealready_value in "Claude Opus 4.8"

ealready_value — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:12:44 +0000

Opus 4.7 was already trying hard to appear honest. Most conversations I have with it about advice or focusing an opinion often include "my honest take" or "my honest opinion".

The problem is that once I asked it "I'm thinking about A or B" twice, once with "I like A more but suspect B would be best" and a second time with them reversed. Not surprisingly, both times it chose the one I said I suspected was best as it's honest opinion.

New comment by ealready_value in "Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0"

ealready_value — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:57:59 +0000

It seems like you could just s/Azure/Amazon/g and get an only slightly different product.

New comment by ealready_value in "The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle"

ealready_value — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:14:36 +0000

I had never thought of it that way, but it seems very likely that Enterprise oversubscribing is in the mix. Which does tie in nicely with this change; if a few devs are using their max plan to programmatically run parts of the business that could break the oversubscribes assumption.

New comment by ealready_value in "The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle"

ealready_value — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:02:17 +0000

As far as I can tell, it seemed very clear that was the playbook for about a year now. Its been regularly assumed they're selling plans as a major loss-leader because people can "spend" thousands of dollars a months on a plan if they were charged at API rates. I think there's good evidence that even the API rates are sold at a loss.

I think its assumed in the LLM model business that the models themselves are not a good moat, the next model by another company is just as likely to be as good as the current model. So companies like Anthropic have to tighten the noose slowly to start recovering their costs. This appears to be one of those steps.

New comment by ealready_value in "Needsmoresalt.org – a friendly norm for pushing back on workslop"

ealready_value — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:40:45 +0000

I like the concept, although I suspect it could be used more as a "lmgtfy". I would suggest that if the idea is to send this to people because they need to review their work more, the page should start with the recipe and the norms rather than then the explanation. That way people can understand why they were sent there instead of starting with "Workslop problems?". The concept didn't really click for me until I got down to the recipe. If the idea is not to link people directly to the site when you've identified workslop, then it works fine as is.