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New comment by onlyj in "GPT-6.1 Terra"

onlyj — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:22:47 +0000

You should look at model reasoning level curves on the cost/performance chart on artificial analysis. If you compare the curves for haiku/sonnet/opus I would agree with you that sonnet serves no purpose because it is priced too high. If you look at luna/terra/sol you will see that terra is priced such that it successfully fills a gap between luna and sol. And when you add speed into the equation it adds another dimension where terra makes sense. terra low falls between luna xhigh and max on both cost and intelligence, but it is way faster because it uses way fewer reasoning tokens. So I would say there are workloads where terra makes sense. But from my analysis I don't see any workloads where sonnet makes sense.

New comment by onlyj in "Ask HN: Calorie Trackers"

onlyj — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:18:57 +0000

I feel like MyFitnessPal is fully enshittified. I use FoodNoms which I think is iOS only but the developer really takes advantage of all the iOS features like shortcuts and stuff so I have my phone set up to trigger the AI calorie estimator with the action button on my phone. Oh also yeah there is an AI estimator. Its not cutting edge but it gets you in the ballpark. I feel like in the past when counting calories I sometimes choose not to eat because I don't know the calories or I choose not to track something because I don't know the calories. With an AI estimator that is no longer a problem. FoodNoms has a free version but you really need the subscription so its not free but its worth it to me.