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New comment by licjon in "Claude Sonnet 5"

licjon — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:58:42 +0000

Is there a router or wrapper that provides a real-time cost estimation for alternative settings? Obviously, you can't predict exact output tokens without running the inference, but a tool that calculates the exact input cost across models and applies a historical average for the output tokens could be useful. Like, you run a task on Sonnet, and it estimates: "Based on your input tokens and a 1:1 output ratio, this would have cost $X on Opus at a low effort level."

New comment by licjon in "The case for physical media ownership"

licjon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:12:19 +0000

By not offering a refund, Sony has done damage to the moral superiority claim that pirated media is theft. If they can effectively steal something you bought, then they can't claim the moral high ground, just the fact of legality.

New comment by licjon in "Ask HN: How to avoid LLMs struggling with Lisp parens?"

licjon — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:39:25 +0000

For common lisp, cl-mcp is great for this (https://github.com/cl-ai-project/cl-mcp). I have not had any parentheses issues while using claude opus and cl-mcp. Other lisp mcps are probably also good, but I can only vouch for cl-mcp.