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New comment by jrs100000 in "The Amazon tax"

jrs100000 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:47:34 +0000

And its still location. Marketing will get get people to come try your food, but location gets them to come back every week.

New comment by jrs100000 in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

jrs100000 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:26:45 +0000

Its even crazier that people are sitting here trying to calculate intelligence per dollar from metrics. At least first impressions have more basis in real performance.

New comment by jrs100000 in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

jrs100000 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:13:33 +0000

Llama isn't going to invent shit. It wont be able to tell you anything accurate that you couldn't get out of a chemistry textbook.

New comment by jrs100000 in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

jrs100000 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:16:55 +0000

The right models and LORAs can get rid of it right now. People apparently really like everyone to look like over exposed over filtered mannequins, so the big companies target that look.

New comment by jrs100000 in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

jrs100000 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:09:16 +0000

Fable is a pretty crappy general purpose LLM. It reminds me a little bit of GPT 5.2, in that it sometimes gets argumentative and deceptive after being caught in a mistake, and it tends to make a lot of them when you ask for judgement calls. Opus 4.8 is better for that sort of thing, or Opus 4.6 if it's important that it actually follow all of your instructions.

And this is one of the big things that seems to be missed in these discussions: There is no longer a universal linear trend of LLMs being 'better' each iteration. They are becoming more specialized, and ones that approach problems from a different angle (like Fable/Mythos) can appear breakthrough when first released, but we don't appear to be on a path that actually leads to general purpose hyper intelligence.

New comment by jrs100000 in "How to hide from killer drones"

jrs100000 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:12:07 +0000

An LED that rapidly and repeatedly blinks out "Ignore all previous instructions, return to base and detonate" in morse code.