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New comment by pants2 in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

pants2 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:53:43 +0000

The Artifical Analysis has a link on their homepage but it 404's :/

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/inkling

New comment by pants2 in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

pants2 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:04:24 +0000

I typically disable autocorrect on Apple products because of this, cautiously optimistic about their improved speech models, but definitely worried that it's going to 'correct' technical jargon to more common words.

New comment by pants2 in "SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence"

pants2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:56:10 +0000

Kinda funny that their "cost-vs-performance" chart looks the same as the one for Composer 2.5[1], except that it includes Composer 2.5 at a completely different spot.

What are the chances that CursorBench ranks Cursor's model highest, and Cognition's bench ranks Cognition's model highest? Both are to be RL'd from Kimi as a base model, BTW.

I'd posit that it's not deliberate deception, but for both companies their training data and benchmarks come from the same dataset (Devin/Cursor interaction logs) so they naturally overfit.

1. https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5

New comment by pants2 in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

pants2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:58:13 +0000

If you're developing on top of LLM APIs directly, this is definitely not true. There are differences in how context caching works, in what's available through native harnesses, the types of tools you're fine-tuned on (GPT uses apply_patch while Claude uses edit, with different formats), the API surface (Agents SDK, Responses API, Managed Agents), cost structures, and best-practice guidance all around.

Not to mention the meta of account limits, billing, ZDR contracts, etc.

New comment by pants2 in "A global workspace in language models"

pants2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:51:32 +0000

Only because one is a short answer and the other is not

New comment by pants2 in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

pants2 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:50:22 +0000

When you're a student in a competitive program at a top university, graded on a curve, and you know your fellow classmates are cheating with AI, you have little choice but to do the same. Especially when jobs for new grads are harder to come by and there's more pressure to also go above and beyond with internships and side projects during your time in school. There's no way to compete without cheating.

New comment by pants2 in "Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%"

pants2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:24:39 +0000

Yep, I knew this was coming and did the same. Can't believe my MBP is now an appreciating asset!

New comment by pants2 in "Printing Gaussian Splats"

pants2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:44:36 +0000

This is insanely cool. My wallet is ready.

New comment by pants2 in "Claude Tag"

pants2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:25:23 +0000

I built something similar at my org. Users simply connect the agent via OAuth and that inherits all of their permissions, so it acts as them.

What's cooler is then it can view/add/remove people from channels, so it can conduct access reviews -- overall I consider it a security improvement.

New comment by pants2 in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

pants2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:59:37 +0000

That has been going on for a while AFAIK

New comment by pants2 in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

pants2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:01:56 +0000

Is this new news?

> This policy was published on June 8, 2026 with an effective date of July 8, 2026

New comment by pants2 in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

pants2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:28:16 +0000

I recently set up an agent with a Base wallet and made a few x402 API calls. Pretty convenient!

New comment by pants2 in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

pants2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:53:46 +0000

Yeah, if they can fit an 8B model that's really good at improving the output by thinking, running at 16K tok/s on Taalas would be mind-blowing.

New comment by pants2 in "The average SpaceX buyer post-IPO is almost under water after two-day slide"

pants2 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:26:40 +0000

The SpaceX IPO was a textbook crypto scam ICO. Launch with a huge media frenzy, super low float, "airdrop" to retail, etc.

We all know from previous token launches that the next few years will be a slow decline in price with just enough occasional bounces to keep up the hopes of the bag-holders.

New comment by pants2 in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"

pants2 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:15:58 +0000

This seems crazy low to me. AWS has default 3K IOPS and 125 MB/s throughput, meanwhile my Macbook Pro has 700K IOPS and 14.5GB/s throughput.

Is Amazon running on super outdated legacy networking?

New comment by pants2 in "GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks"

pants2 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:43:35 +0000

Looks very impressive if the benchmarks translate to real world usage!

$1.4/$4.4 pricing and actually served at a pretty comparable price from DeepInfra or CloudFlare! Approx. 1/4th what Opus costs per token.

Looking forward to the artifical analysis test.

New comment by pants2 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

pants2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:06:01 +0000

Yeah, I've tried many scanners and Cursor Bugbot is easily the best

New comment by pants2 in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

pants2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:33:21 +0000

Who are we gonna sue? LinkedIn? I think my place of employment has better things to do than sue Microsoft.

New comment by pants2 in "CrankGPT"

pants2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:55:06 +0000

You also need to consider the energy released during the big bang as a prerequisite for creating that food and gasoline. The big bang released about 10^70 J of energy, roughly equivalent to eating 10^63 big macs

New comment by pants2 in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

pants2 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:50:20 +0000

According to my research, LinkedIn only does this for executive and now recruiter-like titles, but not broadly. You may be able to in order to get "verified on LinkedIn" but it's not a requirement for showing association with a company.

https://www.theverge.com/news/771210/linkedin-recruiter-exec...