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New comment by resonious in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

resonious — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:52:01 +0000

Where is the official source for this?

OpenAI's docs still show non-discounted pricing https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.6-sol

New comment by resonious in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

resonious — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:49:12 +0000

They do decide on the 5% markup. But as far as I can tell, all other routers just match 5%. Not sure what they're competing on.

New comment by resonious in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

resonious — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:13:53 +0000

You definitely can build an LLM router with only the features you need (even the ones absent in OR!) for cheaper. Openrouter is 5% markup on all token usage. If you're a serious pay-per-use customer of AI, that's a lot of money.

New comment by resonious in "Stripe 2.9% vs. Adyen 0.6% vs. Braintree 2.59%: 2026 Fees"

resonious — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:39:02 +0000

Stripe has such a critical mass, I think SAAS builders don't even shop. It's just of course you use Stripe. It's a like a utility. I think even customers might be surprised to see a non-Stripe checkout when purchasing a SAAS. Might even get worried.

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

resonious — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:06:14 +0000

Sol is way cheaper than Fable by the token.

New comment by resonious in "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"

resonious — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:39:28 +0000

Not surprised at all but there seems to be tons of these kinds of tools and I'm having a hard time picking one. Is there a nice list somewhere? I guess I can ask chatgpt...

Honestly right now I do a lot of development from my phone - I don't have the time to pull out my laptop very much. Right now I use hermes agent and just chat with it on Slack. But sometimes I wish I had easier access to more advanced features, and Slack isn't the best UI for this stuff. So I want to use something like this but am having analysis paralysis.

New comment by resonious in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

resonious — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:17:59 +0000

I wish I had something more methodical I could show. It's all subjective, but GLM-5.2 feels more human to me. Even GPT-5.6 Sol tends to be easier on the eyes for me (though the stereotype of it overengineering and no common sense are still true).

I tried using a new agent service recently and could tell immediately that it's powered by Claude due to the way it writes.

New comment by resonious in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

resonious — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:38:13 +0000

To me, it's just Claude. The other models have their quirks but nothing is quite like Claude.

But even with Claude, it's it's really the prose getting in the way you can install the caveman plugin or tell it to use that "standard technical English" thing.

New comment by resonious in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

resonious — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:34:13 +0000

Yes. You decrement for a few minutes then release if there's no purchase in time. Airlines figured out how to do this a very long time ago.

New comment by resonious in "Message your other Claude Code sessions"

resonious — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:46:45 +0000

Just ask for one? Or maybe this was tongue in cheek!

New comment by resonious in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

resonious — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:39:53 +0000

I work with Shopify often and the whole oversell protection thing is like a huge joke.

Oversell happens because Shopify doesn't decrement inventory until payment is confirmed. And they apparently would rather die than change that invariant.

New comment by resonious in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

resonious — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:08:21 +0000

Anthropic paid out a lot of money for the copyrighted material they used.

(not commenting on whether it was a fair amount - just saying these companies are not immune to lawsuits)

New comment by resonious in "Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers"

resonious — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:19:06 +0000

I think you want to make sure you don't hold a database connection while waiting on other slow async work (like outgoing HTTP requests). Then you can more feasibly have more workers than pool size. It's just very tricky to do this in Rails...

New comment by resonious in "How to Do Great Work (2023)"

resonious — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:01:41 +0000

> At 7 it may seem excitingly ambitious to build huge things out of Lego, then at 14 to teach yourself calculus, till at 21 you're starting to explore unanswered questions in physics.

Is this supposed to be relatable?

New comment by resonious in "How to Do Great Work (2023)"

resonious — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:59:55 +0000

That probably is what it means and I think there's still value in the analysis.

New comment by resonious in "The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough"

resonious — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:12:11 +0000

This is huge... At least from what I've seen, many companies (even if they don't know it) are largely sloppy R&D shops. Most people are on projects that are highly speculative and unlikely to generate revenue. But it often isn't framed that way. Everyone believes their project is the obvious way forward.

New comment by resonious in "Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team"

resonious — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:28:18 +0000

> if the code goes boom, it's on the developer

This is the same argument C (and Zig!) people have for manual memory management. You can avoid memory problems by being a good developer.

New comment by resonious in "No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s"

resonious — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:59:04 +0000

This varies wildly person to person but for me, it's not only about the means. It's a combination of means and end. If I want the computer to do something, and the only way to get it to do so is read a book and tinker, the reading and tinkering are very fun. If I could just ask the computer in plain English (which I can now), I would. Of course it's way less of a fun journey then. But just reading and tinkering with no extrinsic element is not a fun journey.

New comment by resonious in "Claude Opus 5"

resonious — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:26:47 +0000

The game changes when it's not just "Opus vs Sonnet", but "Opus vs GLM". The amount saved is way more than even $0.04. And it's not only money but speed. Some providers can serve GLM crazy fast - I'll even go outside of my subscription to pay extra money for the quick results.

New comment by resonious in "How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?"

resonious — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:37:56 +0000

This sounds like not the best workflow. If your prompt is that long, you may not be spending your time very efficiently.

Splitting problems into smaller problems is huge. You want a concrete idea that you still own. Only tell an agent to do something you know it can nail - this will likely be one subsystem. The subsystems and how they talk is on you.