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New comment by rsanek in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

rsanek — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:22:31 +0000

You don't get the cheap pricing this way, which is why people are so interested in the model in the first place.

New comment by rsanek in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

rsanek — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:18:21 +0000

Pandemic-related over-hiring was corrected by end of ~2023, if you look at employment growth rates pre-pandemic. [1] I'm more inclined to believe that it is AI (or, at least, the expectation by CEOs of what AI will be).

[1] https://robulka.com/employees/

New comment by rsanek in "I want to live like Costco people"

rsanek — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:13:38 +0000

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New comment by rsanek in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

rsanek — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:01:04 +0000

I would expect the value of a domain purchase + setup handled by an agent is the highest for people that are not very technical. I'd say that a well-engineered agent will do a better job avoiding botching it than your average non-dev.

New comment by rsanek in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

rsanek — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:23:42 +0000

Open RSS, your website is slow

New comment by rsanek in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

rsanek — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:01:53 +0000

>DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 96.4% on LiveCodeBench and costs $0.87/M output tokens

This is a heavily subsidized price and will only last until the end of the month: "The deepseek-v4-pro model is currently offered at a 75% discount, extended until 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC." [0]

The "supported backends" table is also deceiving -- while OpenRouter's server's may be in the US, the only way to get the $0.44/$0.87 pricing is to pass through to the DeepSeek API, which of course is China-based. [1]

I do think the model is quite good, I myself use it through Ollama Cloud for simple tasks. But I think some folks have bought in a little too much to the marketing hype around it.

[0] https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing [1] https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro/providers

New comment by rsanek in "DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price"

rsanek — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:02:42 +0000

I tried Kimi K2.6 but came away underwhelmed -- it is much more expensive / slow but does not feel better to me. Haven't tried the GLM series.

New comment by rsanek in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

rsanek — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:05:01 +0000

This was reverted for us employees in OBBB and companies can refile taxes for what they couldn't use as an expense in the intervening time. I think the impact of this is generally overstated

New comment by rsanek in "DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price"

rsanek — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:13:54 +0000

I'm not sure I'd call it "almost on the frontier," but I do think that v4 Pro is the most usable coding model I've seen out of China. I've used it via Ollama Cloud (coding) and OpenRouter (data processing). Feels Sonnet-level to me -- solid at implementation when given a specification, but falls a good bit short of Opus 4.7 max thinking when planning out larger changes or when given open-ended prompts.

New comment by rsanek in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

rsanek — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:00:48 +0000

I've had a decent experience with ollama cloud. It is slower than going thru openrouter but much, much cheaper -- the generosity of their $20 plan reminds me of what the Claude Code $20 plan was back in the day

New comment by rsanek in "Zed 1.0"

rsanek — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:34:51 +0000

Ever since agents came out I had been lost trying to figure out what I should replace my heavy IntelliJ with. I switched fully over to Zed once they shipped the git graph in stable [0] and couldn't be happier. Congrats on 1.0!

[0] https://zed.dev/releases/stable/0.231.1

New comment by rsanek in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

rsanek — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:50:27 +0000

I'm confused. If you have detailed, specific expectations, why aren't using the best model available? Even if you were using Opus 4.7, I would inquire if you're using high/xhigh effort by default.

Feels crazy to me for people to use anything other than the best available.

New comment by rsanek in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

rsanek — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:25:45 +0000

Meta has about 10% more employees now than they did at the end of 2021. They currently have less than half the employees of Google or Apple; only a third of Microsoft. If you're right, the rest of big tech is in a much worse position.

New comment by rsanek in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

rsanek — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:30:25 +0000

It's hard to compare these numbers directly since valuations have increased quite a bit since a quarter century ago. As a proportion of the S&P 500, Tesla (2.3%) is about 4x of Enron at that $70b (0.6%).

New comment by rsanek in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

rsanek — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:02:07 +0000

So funny to see the recommendation here (track bedtime/wake-time, compute your average cycle length, predict the next bedtime from it, and don't deviate in either direction) be similar to how spaced repetition is typically sold to people: high expectations from users, no affordances for flexibility. These kinds of systems are just not realistic unless you are willing to be a loner that can never deviate from their routine.

I do agree that caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, sleeping pills, and (as much as we can) alarm clocks are all things to stay away from.

New comment by rsanek in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

rsanek — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:04:19 +0000

There are existing metrics that adjust for this. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-emissions...

New comment by rsanek in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

rsanek — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:45:57 +0000

Indeed, things really changed in late 2022 / early 2023. https://www.hnhiringtrends.com/

New comment by rsanek in "Layoffs at Block"

rsanek — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:33:45 +0000

Thanks for the link. Looks like it's the best it's been in ~2 years

New comment by rsanek in "Six Math Essentials"

rsanek — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:08:34 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260216165954/https://terrytao....

New comment by rsanek in "The AI-Powered 10-Minute Habit That Taught My Kid to Read"

rsanek — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:11:12 +0000

Awesome read, thanks for sharing. Always interesting to read applications of Anki to those that are younger.