Anthropic doesn't really publish their limits so it's hard to do a direct comparison when these things come up. I just have doubts that DS 4.1 Flash is remotely close to 5x as expensive. Also, I've seen a lot of people claim that switching to it cuts their costs by a huge amount, which based on API per token costs of Claude seems to be far more likely.

For my usage almost all of those tokens are cached input, which is why the cost is so low.

But yes, great piece. It really captures why I use open models on european hardware. It's like we haven't learned by now that competition is good and we should be encouraging a diverse and open ecosystem.

But even from a business standpoint, the US is not reliable. For all I know Trump will ban countries he doesn't like from using US AI just because. And there is plenty of evidence that at this point in time things you say bad about the US administration can cause them to attack you. I have no confidence that they don't have access to e.g. openAI.

Not that I'm using AI for that mind you, but you put it all together and it's just not worth it if there are good alternatives. Which there are. You can use even use Chinese models but hosted by European countries with privacy as a selling point.

It's just not worth it to me. And the way the US government is increasingly using data it collects to attack people who simply say bad things about it, there is no reason to doubt that such Trump-aligned companies would help ex-filtrate data.

I have fewer issues with Antropic, but also, from a business standpoint it's too much of a risk. Who knows, maybe the next tariff will be on software, maybe he'll ban random companies from using US AI. Too unpredictable and too risky.

And I guess VPNs are not end to end encrypted. The provider would still be able to access your data if they want to unlike something like Tor. So, it will be the death of privacy focussed VPNs. But presumably things like Signal and Apple's disk encryption will be fine as only the user holds the keys.

“I think there’s been way too much focus on the month to month—is it men gaining jobs or women?” Long told Fortune. “That moves around a lot.”

You don't need to wait for September, you can already see from historical data that this measure jumps around a lot from month to month. A lopsided month is not news except for people with an agenda to mislead.

2. He cherry picked one month of data. And in fact the data for that month was flagged as bad and the new data for the number of women is not released yet. [3]

The real data for each months looks more like:

Monthly Job Changes — U.S. Establishment Survey (CES), 2026 (Seasonally adjusted, in thousands. Women = BLS Table B-5 / CES0000000010. Men = implied: Total − Women.)

Month ΔTotal ΔWomen ΔMen (implied)

Feb -156 -27 -129

Mar +214 +98 +116

Apr +148 +84 +64

May +63 +49 +14

Jun +31 +89 -58

Jul -10 -32 +22

Aug +133 +145 -12

Sep +29 +14 +15

So no there is not some crazy trend that only women are being hired. This is classic propaganda using cherry picked data.

[1] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/institute-for-family-studies/

[2] https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-review/

[3] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/empsit_10022026.ht...

And instead of averting that we're spending our time worrying about some fantasy villain. Compared to things like bees that have been hear for millions of years, humans are very recent and so far it's not looking good for us.

Also, it's not like it's fixed in time, they are continually building more powerful models as well. Simply because you're in second place doesn't mean you quit the journey. Though, I'm sure the US has a huge vested interest of convincing people to "just quit and submit."

No. Thanks.

At some point my partner told me I should stop saying I'm introverted because she saw me always interacting with people and enjoying it. So I reflected, realized she had a point, and stopped identifying as introverted.

Over time I realized that actually, I love interacting with people, especially closer friends. A "party" can be 4-6 people, it doesn't have to be huge. And sure, after larger events I still need some time to cool down, but stopping identifying as introverted has been a huge improvement overall to my life.

And honestly, I'm not even that mad at AI. The way these companies are going I'll take an AI that is taught to follow the most basic design guidelines over what most companies shovel out these days.

Like fine, you want to stand out? Use different colour schemes or unique fonts (but like one or at most two fonts). Change your corner radius from time to time to freshen up. There are so many ways to make your UI "different" but still consistent and following basic best practices.

Some of the stuff throw out now a days would fail UI 101 assignments.

Follow design standards? Fuck no, we need to STAND OUT instead. If you find the design hard to use as a result of not following standards your just an old curmuddgen.