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New comment by tinyhouse in "Gemini 4 Argon"

tinyhouse — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:13:32 +0000

Google didn't release an impressive model since Flash 3. I tried Antigravity with the latest Gemini model for a week and it's the worse experience I had among more than 5 harnesses and models I tried (deeseek/pro, muse/spark-1.3, cc/opus, codex/sol, and Pi/sol). I haven't touched it since and canceled my pro subscription.

Then I tried Flash 3.8 for different tasks like OCR and others, and while in their benchmarks it crashes Flash 3, in my experiments I didn't notice much difference, often even Flash 3 performed better.

I hope Gemini 4 Argon is a real step up from that but we'll see once they release it. I'm rooting for Google and it's about time they deliver frontier intelligence, not just competitive prices.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Dots: Always-on agents"

tinyhouse — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:28:16 +0000

To Anthropic's credit, I find their overall design so much better than OpenAI's.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Dots: Always-on agents"

tinyhouse — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:22:36 +0000

One way that I find the AI space boring is that everyone is working on the same things. The release of Jev was a breath of fresh air.

New comment by tinyhouse in "I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago"

tinyhouse — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:37:23 +0000

You're right but it's not the full picture. It's much easier to market when you have a name brand behind you. Not sure the author would've done much better even if he messaged it better. It's like the difference between someone random saying something smart on Twitter and no one gives a shit and Karapthy saying the same thing and everyone talks about it. I'm not saying it in a bad way - those with clout around them earned the people's trust by doing something right. But it's not easy to get there and there are many people doing great things that get very little publicity if at all. Not to mention in this case Jev came from a startup that raised a lot of money and can spend it on good marketing.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

tinyhouse — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:05:44 +0000

"Any company" is a big claim to make. We're years ahead of something like this becoming a reality. At that point not sure most companies will survive cause most things will be free.

New comment by tinyhouse in "DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro"

tinyhouse — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:39:04 +0000

I've been working with Pro and it's been great so far.

New comment by tinyhouse in "GPT-6 Astra"

tinyhouse — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:15:38 +0000

You can talk to OpenAI to create a silly game and order food. What a lame way to show the model capabilities. Has Alexa commercial vibes.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Muse Spark 1.3"

tinyhouse — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:38:38 +0000

Thanks. Just downloaded and pretty impressed so far. It's fast and nice to work with.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Muse Spark 1.3"

tinyhouse — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:59:46 +0000

I had no idea Meta has a coding agent harness. Does anyone have experience with it and can comment? The 1.3 contributor prices look very attractive. I'll probably start using their API if performance is good and the API is reliable with decent rate limits.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens"

tinyhouse — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:29:11 +0000

As someone who uses AI all day it all makes sense. However, if AI is going to have serious impact white collar jobs as some people predict, the demand will decline. People without jobs won't pay for expensive subscriptions or API prices and the economy will be in recession.

For me the important question is where the economy will be in the next 5 years. Because if the economy is doing well, I have no doubt the AI demand will continue to sky rocket. I don't think it matters to Nvidia how uses their compute, closed or open models. The win either way.

New comment by tinyhouse in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

tinyhouse — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:46:46 +0000

Anthropic is accelerating their IPO cause they know what's coming in the next 5 years.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow"

tinyhouse — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:05:13 +0000

I actually use claude these days mostly for mission critical tasks and code reviews. Everything else I use Sol. I have $20/month plans on both. For non-coding I also use Gemini on a $20/plan. So far I haven't had any issues but we'll see how things go. I have Qwen3.8-27B installed locally but until I upgrade my mac it's not for day to day stuff.

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

tinyhouse — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:53:54 +0000

Exactly. If you care about AI, simply don't use Anthropic - use open source.

New comment by tinyhouse in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

tinyhouse — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:48:24 +0000

Are we talking about online chess cheating? Aren't players eventually need to show up and play in-person?

New comment by tinyhouse in "Half-Baked Product"

tinyhouse — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:41:04 +0000

This is so well written. Well done!

New comment by tinyhouse in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

tinyhouse — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:08:19 +0000

Cursor is great but they're all going to cash out and leave SpaceX as soon as they can.

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

tinyhouse — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:34:19 +0000

At least on Claude Code it's completely useless. It tells me to run all the commands myself cause it's blocked ("Classifier's blocking me again" lol). Just tried now and saw the msg: "There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5[1m]). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model."

I really have no clue how Anthropic released this thing without doing any real testing. I did use it on claude.ai with no issues; talking just for code.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

tinyhouse — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:00:32 +0000

This is very true and applies for everything in life.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

tinyhouse — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:30:35 +0000

I try to always buy tickets on TickPick when I can (no affiliation). No fees and total prices are often much better than Ticketmaster. But my usecase is almost always buying from resellers. I never up-to-date to buy official tickets.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

tinyhouse — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:09:25 +0000

Drew is clearly a very competent engineer who built an amazing product and company. He was the right person to build it from zero all the way to an IPO, but wasn't the right person to keep scaling it. Dropbox's product vision in the last 10 years was lacking to say the least. Their latest innovative product "Dash" is another flop, like Dropbox Password, Paper, and many others.