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

stingraycharles — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:56:41 +0000

They're undermining their position of strength precisely by using these types of restrictions. That's the point I'm trying to make.

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

stingraycharles — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:35:18 +0000

> the US still holds all the cards in 2026

So, the last time an AI-related export control was imposed - NVidia chips deemed to be "too powerful" - how do you think that will work out? If the US is holding all the cards, why is China now refusing their chips?

Don't you think these types of restrictions will weaken rather than empower the US?

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

stingraycharles — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:06:56 +0000

So isn’t the only logical conclusion that we have reached the max of model capabilities that the US allows to be made available to the public? Why invest in smarter models with this precedent?

And potentially more importantly: if a model like Mythos, which at best is an incremental improvement over Opus, is getting this treatment, how are all the AI investments that are based on the expectation of ASI / AGI / significantly better models going to be recouped?

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

stingraycharles — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:03:22 +0000

Yup, getting Cartmanland marketing vibes here. “It’s the best theme park ever, and you can’t come!” does wonders for creating demand.

I wouldn’t the surprised if all this were actually orchestrated, it all seems too convenient.

New comment by stingraycharles in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

stingraycharles — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:25:58 +0000

Yeah I’ve also been using it on macOS, my experience is that it works better with the metal API and has better performance.

New comment by stingraycharles in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

stingraycharles — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:24:13 +0000

Enterprise / B2B has always been easier and more lucrative. Once a large enterprise integrates with your product, they won’t move away unless there’s an actual issue. So then the “moat” becomes the contract.

Meanwhile, OpenAI is spending ludicrous amounts on things like a Sora-TikTok app in order to create a network effect, and failing at it.

Seems pretty obvious to me what the better strategy is.

New comment by stingraycharles in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

stingraycharles — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:49:20 +0000

It seems that OpenAI lacks a clear target audience, they try to be everything for everyone. Anthropic is targeting professionals / enterprise users.

I don’t fully understand why OpenAI lacks this focus, as clearly identifying a target market is one of the first things you do with a business strategy. But instead they just seem to throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

stingraycharles — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:30:59 +0000

Why would it? There’s plenty of competition in the AI space.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Siri AI"

stingraycharles — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:31:15 +0000

Wait, I got an iPhone 15 Pro Max because supposedly it was compatible with Apple Intelligence. But now it’s not supporting this?

New comment by stingraycharles in "OpenAI Submits S-1 Draft to SEC"

stingraycharles — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:29:00 +0000

From what I understand, SpaceX has been engineered such that all kinds of passive investment funds (pension funds, ETFs) will buy into it at their first rebalancing, and as such it should get a decent amount of volume after open.

Having said that, it’s the company I have least faith in due to the recent acquisition of xAI / Twitter.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

stingraycharles — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:36:01 +0000

Language’s own native data structures isn’t limited to just the standard library.

New comment by stingraycharles in "7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes part of southern Philippines. Tsunami possible"

stingraycharles — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:20:26 +0000

I felt it as well in Cebu, so I can only imagine what it was like when much closer to it. And there was a 8.0+ one in the northeast last month as well, right?

New comment by stingraycharles in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

stingraycharles — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:02:04 +0000

And you want to embed Redis inside PHP as a solution?? That’s nuts.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

stingraycharles — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:37:37 +0000

It doesn’t seem like the right tool for the job, though. Aren’t your own programming language’s constructs much more well-defined / understood ?

New comment by stingraycharles in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

stingraycharles — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:33:09 +0000

From what I understand it’s mostly TSMC and the memory providers being out of capacity over the next few years.

So it’s not even about datacenters.

Here’s a Reuters article about TSMC: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/broadcom-flags-su...

So this is actual committed contracts with all kinds of companies such as Apple, NVidia, AMD.

Also, the whole reason they can’t build data centers faster is precisely because of this.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

stingraycharles — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:30:51 +0000

Google also needs fabs to build their TPUs.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

stingraycharles — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:57:42 +0000

I’ve even heard the rule “twice the salary” being used here in EU, but the tax and insurance burden may be higher. All kinds of those are based primarily on total payroll amount.

New comment by stingraycharles in "MAI-Thinking-1"

stingraycharles — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:55:32 +0000

But that’s what I meant with taking it into account. They would likely only use BSD and MIT licensed repos, which is a lot.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

stingraycharles — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:16:20 +0000

I think the keyword is “can”.

It is allowed, contrary to eg the EU, where this is not allowed.

New comment by stingraycharles in "Microsoft doubles down on controversial quantum computing claims"

stingraycharles — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:07:48 +0000

Depending on whether you’re measuring the model’s position or direction?