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New comment by lbreakjai in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

lbreakjai — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:22:29 +0000

The other option is the one that kills palestinians, and we don't even get free models out of it.

New comment by lbreakjai in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

lbreakjai — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:19:30 +0000

As always, the US has a government removing red tape to foster innovation, while China has a regime, unfairly picking winners, to hurt and subvert the West.

New comment by lbreakjai in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

lbreakjai — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:26:06 +0000

We've been through it over and over. "Tesla is not a car company it's a X company" where X is the current trending theme.

So far, Tesla has been a blockchain, energy, robotics, and now a compute company.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Dutch children are unusually happy and healthy. Because of this walking ritual?"

lbreakjai — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:57:23 +0000

My daughter is about to enter "group 2". The starkest difference with the system back home is the level of autonomy they have. Most of what they seem to do revolve around working together autonomously.

They're expected to group themselves, to collaborate, to solve their conflicts, while the teacher acts as a facilitator that will give them the keys to succeed on their own.

After-school care is similar. The assistants are there to supervise, not to animate or entertain. They'll make sure your kid survives until 5, the rest is up to them.

This attitude carries over outside of school. Kids are trusted to go out in the neighborhood. As soon as the sun shines, the park under my flat turns into a gigantic playground from 14h to 20h, with no adults in sight.

Go for a walk during King's day, and you'll see a ton of kids managing a stall of their own design by themselves.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

lbreakjai — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:23:39 +0000

I've seen people miss the tractor wheel with a hammer at my gym. I didn't even know if was physically possible.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

lbreakjai — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:33:59 +0000

I use DSv4 through opencode. I use it from deepseek directly, not through a third-party platform.

I mostly do C# and some frontend. I was starting to feel really depressed and unengaged at work because I was starting to use AI far too much like a magic slot machine. I'm now making a conscious effort to go back to using it as a tool used a bit more deliberately.

I'm not even using the pro model. The flash version is fast so I can keep it interactive rather than context switching to reddit while the model is working, and it turns out using my brain means I don't really need the model to be that smart.

I spent about $1.5 this week.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

lbreakjai — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:49:25 +0000

US have guardrails, China have censorship.

US have fair tax breaks to support the national champions, China have unfair State-backed monopolies.

US have necessary intelligence gathering, China have state-surveillance.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

lbreakjai — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:12:24 +0000

They would have a golden opportunity to inflict damage to a geopolitical adversary. The US economy is being propped up by AI, I'm not sure they'd miss the chance to blow that bubble if they could.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

lbreakjai — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:39:42 +0000

They're going around saying "Imagine no possessions. To help you, we'll take them all. Don't thank us".

New comment by lbreakjai in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

lbreakjai — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:00:53 +0000

115k€ gross, that gives you about 67k€ net. 5600€ per month. Minus a 2200€ mortgage, 400€ of health insurance, 1200€ of childcare, 200€ for the car repayment and insurance, 200€ for the water/electricity/internet and 800€ of groceries, that leaves me with a whopping 600€ per month.

My class interests are infinitely closer to a part-time starbucks barista than they are to a millionaire.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

lbreakjai — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:24:58 +0000

The clue is in the name. Working class doesn't mean you earn more than average and have some savings. You're working class if you live from your work rather than your capital.

My household income is in the top 0.7% in the Netherlands, yet I'll never accumulate enough capital to stop working, so I'm working class.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

lbreakjai — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:53:50 +0000

Believing they have any interests other than theirs at heart is like believing the stripper is really in love with you. That's not cynicism, that's just common sense.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

lbreakjai — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:15:38 +0000

Believe it or not, but not every software developer is making 7 figures annually with a few millions in vested shares. Even within the US.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

lbreakjai — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:16:49 +0000

Have you tried deepseek V4? It costs pennies and is as good as Opus 4.6 (I found 4.7 to be a downgrade, and cancelled my claude subscription before 4.8).

The threshold has definitely been crossed.

New comment by lbreakjai in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

lbreakjai — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:01:51 +0000

It's bunq. It was time to close your bank account with them a long time ago. Terrible working environment, terrible leadership.

Count yourself lucky if they don't hold your money hostage.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Claude Fable 5"

lbreakjai — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:23:22 +0000

> and you may think, man what a ridiculous example, but think about it this way: what happens when something like Mythos or some future model can actually solve your specific cancer (we're getting closer and closer), but is entirely impossible to afford? Or perhaps you need boosters that require the AI to create more of, and now you're reliant on a model that is too expensive.

Isn't that already the case with current care? Wealthy people get a standard of care poor people couldn't even dream of. Rich people live, temporarily embarrassed millionaires die.

New comment by lbreakjai in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

lbreakjai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:42:48 +0000

My 2014 Fiesta did too.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

lbreakjai — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:01:56 +0000

(the) Public Benefit (the) corporation.

New comment by lbreakjai in "Cloudflare CTO enforcing usage limits"

lbreakjai — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:28:21 +0000

It's funny how fast we went from "Token usage leaderboard! Use AI or you're fired!" to "You're not in trouble, we're just emailing your manager to celebrate your success, we're definitely not making you top of the list for the next culling, we're a family"

New comment by lbreakjai in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

lbreakjai — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:25:21 +0000

Let's see how it goes in three months. I'm not convinced it's anything but an attempt to make the numbers look better just long enough to IPO.

Enterprises will take a while to adjust. We're going along with Copilot price changes in the short term "just to see what it'd look like". They will get customers to continue with the all you can eat mindset at API pricing for a while, but the finance departments will start asking questions very soon.