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New comment by owentbrown in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

owentbrown — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:26:57 +0000

Has anyone switched from Claude 4.7 Opus or ChatGPT 5.5 to this? How does it feel? Dumber? Worth it for the speed? I'd love someone's subjective take on it, after doing a long session of coding.

Reiner Pope gave a talk on Dwarkesh Patel about token economics. I guess faster is a lot more expensive, generally.

Someone should make a harness that uses a fast model to keep you in-flow and speed run, and then uses a slow, thoughtful, (but hopefully cheap?) model to async check the work of the faster model. Maybe even talk directly to the faster model?

Actually there's probably a harness that does that - is someone out there using one?

New comment by owentbrown in "Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently"

owentbrown — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:03:54 +0000

This history of user agent strings still cracks me up. https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

New comment by owentbrown in "DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble"

owentbrown — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:48:53 +0000

This is fun. Artsy, poignant, narrative. It reminds me of the fun internet, like in 2001.

New comment by owentbrown in "Claude Opus 4.7"

owentbrown — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:06:27 +0000

Is anyone else noticing that the benchmarks for Claude 4.7 don't specify the token window? Cursor, and LiteLLM at my company, limit the token window to 200k.

It feels like to me like 4.7 is not better, and is maybe worse than 4.6 when capped to 200k context window.

Does anyone have stats on performance of 4.6 vs. 4.7 when context window is capped at 200k?

New comment by owentbrown in "LLMs can be exhausting"

owentbrown — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:36:24 +0000

I really appreciate the author for writing this.

I learned years ago that I when I write code after 10 PM, I'm go backward instead of forward. It was easy to see, because the test just wouldn't pass, or I'd introduce several bugs that each took 30 minutes to fix.

I'm learning now that it's no different, working with agents.

New comment by owentbrown in "Eat Real Food"

owentbrown — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:13:45 +0000

When did white flour bread become a whole grain?

There's a picture of a loaf of bread next to the word "whole grains".

New comment by owentbrown in "Claude Code now supports hooks"

owentbrown — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:08:11 +0000

I'm excited to see these improvements but, none of them are enough to make up for inconvenience of having to start a new conversation (/clear) after every task.

I've been using Gemini Code. The larger context window is big enough to work for a full session without having to /clear. It matters. Having to think so hard and conserve tokens with Claude is problematic.

New comment by owentbrown in "AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms"

owentbrown — Wed, 14 May 2025 19:48:31 +0000

AlphaEvolve is confirming evidence of an intelligence explosion.

The key ingredient for an intelligence explosion is AI accelerating development of AI.

This is it. It’s happening.

How do I help a key employee stuck in Kafkaesque immigration limbo?

owentbrown — Fri, 02 May 2025 21:40:36 +0000

I'm an engineering manager at a mature YC company. I work with an extremely talented and hard working machine learning engineer in Armenia. He received a Special Talents permit to work in the United States over a year ago.

Then his visa was abruptly frozen. He found out at the airport, with is wife, when he tried to board his flight, after moving out and packing everything they owned.

The Department of State has been reviewing his case for nearly a year. They will not release any details about the review.

As his employer, how can we expedite his processing? He's critical to my company's success.

We've tried writing our Congressman and Senators, but it hasn't helped.

Does anyone know someone pro-business in the current executive administration who can help?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43874849

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New comment by owentbrown in "[dead]"

owentbrown — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:07:02 +0000

Fox News disables its election probability, but leaves up the broken page.

New comment by owentbrown in "Gimp project gets $68.34 monthly"

owentbrown — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:34:00 +0000

This is wrong. The link says $68.34 per week, not per month.

What military supply lines can teach us about technical product management

owentbrown — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 21:06:04 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@owenbrown/wide-path-or-narrow-path-c6f499884fae

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21939816

Points: 6

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