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New comment by simianthoughts in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

simianthoughts — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:14:28 +0000

enterprises aren't using subscriptions..

New comment by simianthoughts in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

simianthoughts — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:39:19 +0000

> Also, from what I recall, Anthropic and OpenAI subsidize their prices by ~40x?

Ed Zitron said this?

New comment by simianthoughts in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

simianthoughts — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:29:15 +0000

So is he suggesting that in the future, models of Opus 4.8 tier will no longer be as affordable? Like it would become 3-5x more expensive?

Now that's quite a prediction.

New comment by simianthoughts in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

simianthoughts — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:02:04 +0000

This guy is sooooo annoying with his stale takes.

This is what he wrote before.

> I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t.

Now he's writng

> I love the progress. I’m so excited for the new LLMs, self driving cars, video generation models, and coding agents.

SMH now he writes about the hype. My brother in absolute Deity, *you* should have believed the hype.