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New comment by heurist in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

heurist — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:03:39 +0000

No, only 2x-ish weekly. 20x 5 hour limit.

New comment by heurist in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

heurist — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:25:26 +0000

I've been using both for a few years. OpenAI's limits have always lasted much longer for me (depending on whether a monkey got in their machine or not). Aside from not lying about limits they also don't assume I'm developing some kind of nerve agent and lock me out when I ask basic questions in my domain or nag me about my late night work hours. There was a time last year when I strongly preferred using Anthropic models, but at some point something about the responses (or maybe the company) changed and I now find them particularly offputting relative to OpenAI. Hope they fix it because the industry needs more competition.

New comment by heurist in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

heurist — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:57:32 +0000

I downgraded from the 20x today after learning that 20x only applies to 5 hour usage. I have barely used Claude/Claude Code in the last month and am considering downgrading further, even after this update.

New comment by heurist in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

heurist — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:34:13 +0000

It doesn't make much sense as compute isn't all that scarce (relative to other commodities) and will be less so in 15 years.

New comment by heurist in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

heurist — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:47:46 +0000

I find after 4 or 5 rounds of targeted feedback and requests to tighten the text AI can produce exceptionally readable documentation.

New comment by heurist in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

heurist — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:53:52 +0000

You are heavily discounting the human side of the generation effort. The first output from an AI might be slop but once you start injecting your own ideas and desires it lands much further away from what any AI would output on its own. (Not that there's no zero-effort slop around - there's a lot).

New comment by heurist in "Claude Opus 4.7"

heurist — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:28:31 +0000

Claude Opus 4.7 responds with walk for me with and without adaptive thinking, but neither the basic model used when you Google search or GPT 5.4 do.

New comment by heurist in "Claude Opus 4.7"

heurist — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:24:29 +0000

I work with some 'legends of programming' and they're all excited about it. I am too, though I am not a legend. It really is changing the game as a valid new technology, and it's not just a 'slot machine'. Anthropic is burning their goodwill though with their lack of QA or intentional silent degradation.

New comment by heurist in "Peptides: where to begin?"

heurist — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:54:33 +0000

You should not be downvoted for expressing your concerns.

New comment by heurist in "Peptides: where to begin?"

heurist — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:27:18 +0000

I'm not inclined to be a guinea pig for these. I suspect maybe later in my child's life they will have been proven long-term safe (or not). I'll be old or dead at that point. I'm really wary of putting anything not known to be standard food or medicine into my body.

New comment by heurist in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

heurist — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:49:17 +0000

Good god

Meta couldn't vibecode a competitor themselves? WTF are yall doing over there?

New comment by heurist in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

heurist — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:47:36 +0000

Hiring is incredibly complicated when done well. If 'limited fuzzy Boolean windows' over 'complex interpersonal dynamics' is vibes, then we will need to accept vibes.

New comment by heurist in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

heurist — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:12:38 +0000

They should have had an open convention. I said this on reddit before the elections and was heavily downvoted for whatever reason. People don't want to face reality. Trump's election this time around was much easier to explain and both parties have now lost the trust of the people.

New comment by heurist in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

heurist — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:19:25 +0000

It's confusing and messy, like most of American history.

New comment by heurist in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

heurist — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:24:24 +0000

Have been using Gitlab happily for a decade, though I have never had to directly worry about the cost for larger teams.

New comment by heurist in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

heurist — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:43:08 +0000

Didn't that anti-corruption agency end up being corrupt too? Hard to follow all this stuff.

New comment by heurist in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

heurist — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:21:57 +0000

We get around this a bit when using it to write code since we have unit tests and can verify that it's making correct changes and adhering to an architecture. It has truly become much more capable in the last year. This technology is so flexible that it can be used in ways no eval will ever touch and still perform well. You can't just rely on what the labs say about it, you have to USE it.

New comment by heurist in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

heurist — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:35:06 +0000

I haven't run a business in a while but when I did I found I was actually more comfortable because the interactions are typically more scriptable and the dynamics are clearer than when you're dealing with peer employees. When you're dealing with customers, you're interfacing on behalf of the business and can adopt a 'business' persona while speaking about things you are expert in. Often you deal with people in bursts and don't need to interact with any given individual too often; with peers it's a lot more vague and confusing, and you're with them basically all the time for years so it's much more exhausting.

New comment by heurist in "I should have loved biology too"

heurist — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:02:54 +0000

I was lucky to have a great AP Biology teacher in high school. I ended up minoring in the field and it has shaped my career. Now my child is a little biologist. It is a fascinating subject and so core to everything we are and everything we do.

New comment by heurist in "Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout"

heurist — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 01:25:33 +0000

That's the most charitable possible reading of this strategy. There are many others.