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New comment by notfromhere in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"

notfromhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:15:33 +0000

This really just exists so cognition can stop spending API tokens with Anthropic or OpenAI.

Basically any successful AI based service will do this because at scale the frontier models are expensive and you’ll have enough data to fine tune your own.

Same reason Harvey is doing models now and basically every other provider

New comment by notfromhere in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"

notfromhere — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:11:19 +0000

Well the models did get better but yeah their early product was godawful

New comment by notfromhere in "WeatherNext 3"

notfromhere — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:44:59 +0000

its nowhere near as good as it was in Dark Sky. the apple weather app is pretty bad where I'm at.

New comment by notfromhere in "Apple Is Suddenly an AI Infra Stock as OpenAI Buys 10k+ Macs"

notfromhere — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:50:09 +0000

Aren't they used doing this so they can generate training data for using Macs via the UI with computer use?

New comment by notfromhere in "Understanding ChatGPT Work"

notfromhere — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:33:57 +0000

Sol Light on computer use is fantastic. I use it whenever I need to dive deep into whatever shitty web saas app menu if the API is unavailable

New comment by notfromhere in "Twitter: The square is back. And this time, it's yours"

notfromhere — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:20:29 +0000

If your standard for free speech is “my side gets to question propaganda, but the other side’s worst posts prove the platform is biased,” that’s not a free speech principle.

New comment by notfromhere in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

notfromhere — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:51:09 +0000

LLMs seem to be trained to work very well against a goal, especially one it can verify against. I guess because it can easily know if it passed or failed, va other tasks where good/bad output is subjective

New comment by notfromhere in "Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems"

notfromhere — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:59:09 +0000

It’s hard to manage because it’s not intelligent in a predictable way. More like a genius toddler

New comment by notfromhere in "DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update"

notfromhere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:30:18 +0000

I have seen a lot of companies start with this, then when they hit 150 users on their team plan and start having to pay API rates they immediately start introducing other models.

New comment by notfromhere in "DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update"

notfromhere — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:28:26 +0000

You should be running your agent in a box so that’s not really a risk

New comment by notfromhere in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

notfromhere — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:52:46 +0000

Anything will be fast if you etch it straight to silicon

New comment by notfromhere in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

notfromhere — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:13:22 +0000

Might be his commitment to fascism across the western world

New comment by notfromhere in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

notfromhere — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:34:24 +0000

That example is a good reason nominal GDP has limits on what it can measure, as a drive thru Mississippi would show a poor state with small pockets of wealth

New comment by notfromhere in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"

notfromhere — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:23:08 +0000

Gee maybe building a business on top of mass ip theft might have consequences

New comment by notfromhere in "DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones"

notfromhere — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:51:35 +0000

planes fly above the weather, so kinda irrelevant. you can cross the atlantic fast with something like the Concorde

New comment by notfromhere in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

notfromhere — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:25:59 +0000

yeah but the size of the us healthcare sector (like 18%) is a policy choice, other developed countries have theirs at 10-12%.

U.S. healthcare is a giant predatory clusterfuck and seems impossible to meaningfully reform.

New comment by notfromhere in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

notfromhere — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:37:05 +0000

I think it’s just where they focused RLHF resources. The models have generally only gotten worse at writing.

And writing doesn’t have validators like code so you can’t really scale it in the same way

New comment by notfromhere in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

notfromhere — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:34:28 +0000

A lot of these markets aren't really functioning when there are many middlemen that have an 2-4 company oligopoly that choke out any actual competition.

Many markets don't really have 'competition'

New comment by notfromhere in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

notfromhere — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:32:53 +0000

Its meat processors having a monopoly.

New comment by notfromhere in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

notfromhere — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:00:42 +0000

No they wouldn’t. A balanced budget would be incredibly unpopular with everyone as you’d have to raise taxes and cut spending.