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New comment by ethanj8011 in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

ethanj8011 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:19:13 +0000

Yes, but developing a better horse has a low likelihood of success and a relatively long time horizon. There are some arms race dynamics here in that as long as no one else is trying to develop a better horse, you probably are better off just not trying to either.

New comment by ethanj8011 in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

ethanj8011 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:43:31 +0000

It's true as far as I can tell, just by my own checking using `/status`. You can also tell by when the "clear" reminder hint shows up. Also if you look at the leaked claude code you can see that almost everything in the main thread is cached with 1H TTL (I believe subagents use 5 minute TTL)

New comment by ethanj8011 in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

ethanj8011 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:34:06 +0000

Isn't the point that unless actually audited each time, the code could still be effectively anything?