Hacker News: ellessarrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ellessarrHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:23:20 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ellessarr in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"]]>2× price only wins for review if it catches bugs the cheap model drops — nobody runs that test, everyone quotes the benchmark.

]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:07:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579099ellessarrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579099https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579099<![CDATA[New comment by ellessarr in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"]]>Detection rots first when an agent owns the runbook...you lose the skepticism, not the fix-velocity.

]]>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:06:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579086ellessarrhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579086https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49579086<![CDATA[New comment by ellessarr in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"]]>Read tokens are the cheap place to optimize — input is ~¼ the price of output. The money's in write-side re-reads/retries, and nobody put a dollar number on that.

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