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New comment by sbochins in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

sbochins — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:59:49 +0000

Because it took too much time before and now it’s essentially instantaneous and free?

New comment by sbochins in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

sbochins — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:46:39 +0000

I don’t have a problem with ai generated media in blogs at all. Nobody is going to take the time to hand draw a piece of art for a blog that takes them less than an hour to write. Pictures speak a thousand words and serve as a great intro to a blog post. Embrace the future.

New comment by sbochins in "Our position on open-weights models"

sbochins — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:24:23 +0000

Amazing how this company went from having such goodwill to hardly any. At the end of the day they want to make as much money as possible. Anthropic will have to lose a ton of their profitability if they compete with open source. I see them moving into the application layer, which they’ve already started doing. It’s clear open models are the future for the vast majority of use cases that don’t need frontier capabilities.

New comment by sbochins in "Claude Opus 5"

sbochins — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:25:23 +0000

Quick read is that this is more capable and cheaper than 5.6sol. Same price for input tokens and $5 cheaper per mil output tokens.

New comment by sbochins in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

sbochins — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:07:52 +0000

Out of all the things I’d consider to help me improve or be more productive, this has to be at the bottom. I actually used to write notes all throughout college, mostly because I couldn’t afford a laptop and would use the school desktop computers when actually writing code. But, I don’t see any degradation from moving to a workflow where I never physically write anymore.

I also don’t understand his stance on using cursive. Everyone that writes quickly develops their own scribble, which they can easily read and doesn’t involve taking the pen off the paper. What’s the point in relearning proper cursive?

New comment by sbochins in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

sbochins — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:55:03 +0000

There’s probably some other things that weren’t exactly clear or could be misinterpreted in the post. I don’t see it as worth my time to go back and edit each little thing.

New comment by sbochins in "Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand"

sbochins — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:34:46 +0000

That doesn’t appear to be the case anymore. They just have one set of plans: Allegreto, modereto, etc which apply to both the chat app and the coding apps.

New comment by sbochins in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

sbochins — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:55:01 +0000

That’s not obvious to me at all. Especially your claim around opus.

New comment by sbochins in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

sbochins — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:52:19 +0000

This is comparing Fable High with K3 High. I'm mostly using these models for game development. The tasks I usually send are ambiguous visual bugs, changing the look of a scene or models, or adding a large feature. The wording wasn't accurate there. I don't use Fable or K3 most of the time. I'm usually working on smaller scoped tasks that I review myself afterwards.

The Kimi K3 Moment

sbochins — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:32:40 +0000

Article URL: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960218

Points: 636

# Comments: 613

New comment by sbochins in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

sbochins — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:02:32 +0000

I think you’re on the wrong website. You’re allowed to be conservative here. But, you can’t be conservative and an idiot.

New comment by sbochins in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

sbochins — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:02:26 +0000

I’m convinced this is 90% of the way this actually played out.

New comment by sbochins in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

sbochins — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:43:30 +0000

It’s the Trump administration trying to pick winners and losers. The chief ai person in the administration is David Sacks. He’s been completely biased and is always going on rants against Anthropic on his podcast (wild that he is participating while in the administration). It’s clear the administration is at odds with Anthropic and will do what they can to stop them from succeeding.

New comment by sbochins in "AI coding at home without going broke"

sbochins — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:39:14 +0000

Gemini models are great. They’re just not good at coding. I use them all the time.

New comment by sbochins in "Fable situation update from David Sacks"

sbochins — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:21:50 +0000

Unfortunately we cannot trust this guy. He’s deep in the Trump administration and has been doing everything in his power to try and pick other companies to win over Anthropic. Just before all this happened, he was going on a rant about how Anthropic was doing too much to disable their models for safety / regulatory capture reasons!

New comment by sbochins in "AI coding at home without going broke"

sbochins — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:18:04 +0000

There are certain things you can leave running for a while. I think the distinction between vibe coding and hitl based coding routines will blur as workflows prove themselves and models become smarter and less expensive. Most of the best engineers I know have transitioned a lot more into vibe coding this year. The possibilities are much better nowadays.

New comment by sbochins in "AI coding at home without going broke"

sbochins — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:14:42 +0000

If you paid for solar, this is less of an issue. I also don’t worry so much about running my AC.

New comment by sbochins in "AI coding at home without going broke"

sbochins — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:13:38 +0000

To be honest I’m not doing too much. I’m just on one of the $200 plans, but always hit limits. I only use the best models and mostly use it for various software projects I always wanted to build, but didn’t have time for. I just closely monitor the usage caps and have something running on a Ralph loop most of the time, unless I get near the cap. The post here is more about how I’d start a self-funded software company, if I wasn’t already working full time.

AI coding at home without going broke

sbochins — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:45:03 +0000

Article URL: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/06/13/ai-coding-at-home-without-going-broke/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48518969

Points: 352

# Comments: 294

New comment by sbochins in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

sbochins — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:26:10 +0000

This phase that all these companies went through doesn’t seem that bad. Before these places had a big problem where all their employees didn’t understand how to us ai for their work. Now they’ve overspent and tokenmaxxed and haven’t seen much from it. The next phase is to set the goalpost lower and set quotas based on who uses ai more effectively. Eventually the folks that use it well and are productive will bring in roi. Then you can fire all the folks that aren’t using it effectively and replace them with people that know how to use it. We’re already starting to see this.