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New comment by justinbaker84 in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

justinbaker84 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:30:52 +0000

I was thinking the same thing.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

justinbaker84 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:14:59 +0000

Microsoft is saying they have a 27% stake in the company after this deal closes.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

justinbaker84 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:13:34 +0000

Just read it when it is done writing it.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

justinbaker84 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:36:20 +0000

I don't understand why more people don't talk about how fast the models are. I see so much obsession with bechmark scores but speed of response is very important for day to day use.

I agree that the models from OpenAI and Google have much slower responses than the models from Anthropic. That makes a lot of them not practical for me.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

justinbaker84 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:23:35 +0000

I feel like if I just do a better job of providing context and breaking complex tasks into a series of simple tasks then most of the models are good enough for me to code.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

justinbaker84 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:09:16 +0000

I am a professional developer so I don't care about the costs. I would be willing to pay more for 4.5 Haiku vs 4.5 Sonnet because the speed is so valuable.

I spend way to much time waiting for the cutting edge models to return a response. 73% on SWE Bench is plenty good enough for me.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

justinbaker84 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:00:56 +0000

I am very excited about this. I am a freelance developer and getting responses 3x faster is totally worth the slightly reduced capability.

I expect I will be a lot more productive using this instead of claude 4.5 which has been my daily driver LLM since it came out.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon"

justinbaker84 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:08:41 +0000

The people who succeed the most with fraud are those who tell lies that people want to believe. A LOT of people wanted to believe that there could be a second electric car company and that they could get rich off it. That is why the fraud worked so well.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

justinbaker84 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:03:52 +0000

I predict a false flag cyber attack on the US that is supposed to whip us into a frenzy for war in Iran.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "What's working for YC companies since the AI boom"

justinbaker84 — Sat, 31 May 2025 13:35:30 +0000

Can confirm. One of my best friends is a senior engineer at thomson reuters and they are focused on that.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency"

justinbaker84 — Sun, 25 May 2025 12:59:53 +0000

It is dissapointing to see how frequently VCs invest hundreds of millions of dollars into fraudulent companies. This is very different from investing in legit companies that don't work.

It often seems like you are more likely to raise VC by being a fraud than by being a responsible person who wants to do something positive in this world.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Claude 4"

justinbaker84 — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:27:31 +0000

I have been very brand loyal to claude also but the new gemini model is amazing and I have been using it exclusively for all of my coding for the last week.

I am excited to try out this new model. I actually want to stay brand loyal to antropic because I like the people and the values they express.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Open guide to equity compensation"

justinbaker84 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:50:53 +0000

I worked at a startup where I joined as the second employee before they raised any money and I basically got 0.5% of the company. They went on to raise over $100 million in VC.

I got $0 for my equity. Start ups have SO many ways to screw employees out of their equity.

The most basic is that you have options that you are not allowed to sell during equity rounds. If you accept them then you need to pay the strike price and they count as taxable income even though you got shares instead of money so you just lose a lot of money.

Say what you will about Elon, but at Space X employees are allowed to sell their shares for actual money at regular intervals. Very few start ups that succeed allow their employees to do that.

90% of startups that succeed just want to grind down their employees rather than pay them the equity they earned.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

justinbaker84 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:45:52 +0000

This is the main point I always want to communicate to the teams building foundation models.

A lot of people just want the ability to pay more in order to get more.

I would gladly pay 10x more to get relatively modest increases in performance. That is how important the intelligence is.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

justinbaker84 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:22:03 +0000

I have been thinking the same thing. The only other thing they do is take positions they think will increase their popularity with their audience.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission"

justinbaker84 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:00:02 +0000

I think that is the case with Sam, but not Ilya and probably not with some of the other founders.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT"

justinbaker84 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 04:18:17 +0000

I have had a similar experience. I build wordpress websites and ChatGPT has allowed me to extend their functionality a great deal without needing to learn how to code PHP.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024)"

justinbaker84 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:08:39 +0000

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New comment by justinbaker84 in "The man who killed Google Search?"

justinbaker84 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:22:27 +0000

I agree with everything you are saying, but the stock price is up 6x over the last 10 years and revenue is still growing 13% a year so nobody at google is going to listen to any of this.

Basically ad dollars have continued to transition from old media to digital media over the last decade+ and that mass migration has created enough revenue to cover up all of Google's core problems.

New comment by justinbaker84 in "The man who killed Google Search?"

justinbaker84 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:41:31 +0000

The shares they own give them 51% of the votes because when they negotiated a deal that gives them a lot more votes than anybody else. They own about 12% of the company.

Those numbers are for both of them combined. If one of them had a serious disagreement with the other they could join forces with other shareholders to create a new 51% majority.