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New comment by jjfoooo4 in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

jjfoooo4 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:44:11 +0000

VC can spend all the money in the world and it won't matter if the cost of switching providers is effectively zero.

If I want to switch from Windows to Linux, I have to reconsider a whole variety of applications, learn a different UX, migrate data, all sorts of annoyances.

When I switch between Codex and Claude Code, there is literally no difference in how I interact with them. They and a number of other competitors are drop in replacements for each other.

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

jjfoooo4 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:44:15 +0000

That is 100% what I think is going to happen.

I wrote about it here: https://tombedor.dev/open-source-models/

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

jjfoooo4 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:36:02 +0000

> people might luck into something genuinely good and worth sharing from time to time.

A) it would be impossible to find in a sea of AI generated slop

B) even if it were to be recognized as good, it would be instantly copied by other AI’s such that it would be very shortly thereafter be also considered slop

For any work to gain traction with an audience, there needs to be scarcity. Art and artists are valued because they are unique in some way, something about it or them cannot be replicated by others. The ability to instantly produce a piece of “art” negates any artistic value, at least as far as audiences are concerned.

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

jjfoooo4 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:57:29 +0000

> Claude code is starting to develop one as people start to build things that require Claude Code specifically, not just any LLM.

I hate to be a "source?" guy, but I'm curious if you have any examples of this. Skills and MCP are really the only extensions on CC itself I'm aware of, and these are both supported in Codex.

Things like Dispatch / remote sessions is something CC has that Codex does not, but these features are quite easy to replicate (and I expect Codex to do so in short order).

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

jjfoooo4 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:52:28 +0000

Nothing about AI mindshare is durable. As Anthropic tightens rate limits and/or raises prices, everyone will move to something else.

This week I’ve been hitting CC rate limits, and I switched to Codex with virtually no disruption to my workflow. It’s not good for Anthropic that I was able to do that!

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

jjfoooo4 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:46:21 +0000

Both companies have the same issue: the unit economics are bad, and there’s no moat.

I’ve been primarily on Claude for the last 6 months or so, but have been hitting rate limits. I switched work to Codex seamlessly, just like I could switch to any other provider seamlessly

The design of AI memory systems

jjfoooo4 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:09:52 +0000

Article URL: https://tombedor.dev/approaches-to-agent-memory/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629987

Points: 3

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New comment by jjfoooo4 in "Is the Future of AI Local?"

jjfoooo4 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:49:29 +0000

Curious if you agree that local is where Apple's bet is long term - it's out of reach now, but I found the jump in capability for the top line laptop interesting. Presumably chip development hasn't focused all that much on running LLM's for all that long, I'm wondering what kind of jump we'll see two or three releases down the line.

Is the Future of AI Local?

jjfoooo4 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:35:10 +0000

Article URL: https://tombedor.dev/open-source-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469219

Points: 2

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New comment by jjfoooo4 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jjfoooo4 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:51:15 +0000

Would be interested in collaborating! My email is in my bio

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

jjfoooo4 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:14:15 +0000

I’m really, really uninterested in reading AI content that other people have generated. If I’m on Twitter, I’m looking for what humans have to say.

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

jjfoooo4 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:49:51 +0000

I've been playing with something similar! Curious how you are interfacing with Chess.com / lichess.org, are you having people paste their PGN's?

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "Don't become an engineering manager"

jjfoooo4 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:44:23 +0000

Why do you think that? Senior, staff, principle levels are pretty standard across the industry, even if some companies call them different things

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

jjfoooo4 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:51:48 +0000

The upgrade to the native installer gave me some issues, I had Claude fail to return any responses and continuously eat memory until my computer crashed! The only fix I could figure out is nuking my entire .claude dir, losing all my history etc with it

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

jjfoooo4 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:13:49 +0000

What else does "regime change" as a goal refer to?

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

jjfoooo4 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:07:04 +0000

This scenario always imagines that the people getting bombs rained down on them will somehow determine that their actual friends in the world are those dropping the bombs.

Even accepting this, how exactly are these peaceful, western friendly civilians going to withstand a war better than their country's army?

It's very depressing to see this playbook credulously trotted out yet again. When has this worked?

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

jjfoooo4 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:01:38 +0000

> But the entire economic surplus of Europe, Asia and North America was basically dedicated to (or extracted towards) making things that were reasonably expected to be destroyed within the year.

This is no longer necessary to inflict the catastrophic destruction we're really referring to when talking about a hypothetical WWIII

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "Just-bash: Bash for Agents"

jjfoooo4 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:35:02 +0000

> The unix commandline tools being the most efficient way to use an LLM has been a surprise. > I wonder the reason.

Because they are really, really well designed for humans.

Everyone is trying to reinvent the wheel and create "agent interfaces", but there is fundamentally no difference between what makes a text based interface easy for a human to use and what makes it easy for an agent to use.

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "How will OpenAI compete?"

jjfoooo4 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:29:45 +0000

Tech has been trying to "gobble up" legal, medical, etc for decades. I'm quite skeptical a newcomer with a powerful model will be able to penetrate them, especially while selling those incumbents access to the same models they are building on.

New comment by jjfoooo4 in "How will OpenAI compete?"

jjfoooo4 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:21:17 +0000

Why would we assume the remote providers are going to be cheaper? They are burning cash, and Claude is already jacking up prices.

"Local" is the means to an end, not the value prop itself. The value prop is "fast, private, and free", which I think is going to be very compelling.