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New comment by usaar333 in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

usaar333 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:59:36 +0000

> The only way it will result in less work and the same or better quality of life is if you’re self-employed or are employed by a compassionate human. Sadly that does not apply to the majority of people.

Even that is unlikely. If you are self-employed in any remotely competitive industry, everyone is continuing to work the same amount and AI is boosting their productivity. If you just start slacking off, your product will become inferior.

This then extends to the employment situation as well.

Only way you can get less work is if you (or your employer) are in a monopoly with a strong moat.

New comment by usaar333 in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

usaar333 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:56:38 +0000

That's not going to stay stable forever.

New comment by usaar333 in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

usaar333 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:54:03 +0000

> You can get 99% of jobs and work done with Haiku/Luna in a collaberating working enviroment.

Optimally? Opus will pay for itself if you save just 10% of your time

New comment by usaar333 in "Sonnet 5.5"

usaar333 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:36:45 +0000

Per the charts, there is largely no point to using Sonnet 5.5 at high+ as opus low generally will give similar performance at similar or lower cost.

But Sonnet 5.5 at medium and below gives you a cheaper option at a performance worse than the lowest thinking Opus (low), which may be viable for "low intelligence" use cases.

New comment by usaar333 in "DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why"

usaar333 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:15:23 +0000

Yeah that's not big tech. $1 trillion market cap is big tech or 30k+ employees.

This is upper end of mid sized.

No yc alum counts as big tech

New comment by usaar333 in "DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why"

usaar333 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:04:41 +0000

Since when did doordash count as big tech?

New comment by usaar333 in "GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index"

usaar333 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:11:21 +0000

It's sub-Fable 5 on mirror code: https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/mirrorcode?view=graph&tab=leader...

New comment by usaar333 in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

usaar333 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:55:36 +0000

Where's that stat from?

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/06/17/americans-an...

That's 30% positive on productive/informed, and only ~5% on hinders.

Whether you think AI will turn out bad (say by killing us all) is a different question from whether it is positive or negative at the moment.

New comment by usaar333 in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

usaar333 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:32:43 +0000

> and eventually AI model will be commodified

This axiom not being true (and I'd bet against it) means your overall conclusion is false.

New comment by usaar333 in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"

usaar333 — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:06:23 +0000

Tech workers get paid in equity and many in the semiconductor industry are making far far more than this a year with all the equity appreciation.

New comment by usaar333 in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

usaar333 — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:30:24 +0000

How does delaying the release not solve anything? It puts everyone on a notice to fix all security vulnerabilities now

New comment by usaar333 in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

usaar333 — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:53:33 +0000

I hate waiting on hold for 30 minutes even more.

New comment by usaar333 in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

usaar333 — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:53:15 +0000

There's literally a link on the blog post to an article noting they hit $150M ARR.

New comment by usaar333 in "Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation"

usaar333 — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:51:25 +0000

Voice agents have capabilities and policy to alter customer state. Just the other day I called into a CC company and the AI waived an interest charge.

New comment by usaar333 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

usaar333 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:07:09 +0000

page is updated to state:

MCP-Atlas: The Opus 4.6 score has been updated to reflect revised grading methodology from Scale AI.

New comment by usaar333 in "How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next"

usaar333 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:35:28 +0000

> But even setting aside the leaked answers, the scorer’s normalize_str function strips ALL whitespace, ALL punctuation, and lowercases everything before comparison. This means:

I don't understand the concern here

New comment by usaar333 in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

usaar333 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:11:12 +0000

True, but it gets you higher accuracy. Gemini had the best aa-omniscience score

https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience

New comment by usaar333 in "Claude Opus 4.6"

usaar333 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:17:27 +0000

Openai has; they don't even mention score on gpt-5.3-codex.

On the other hand, it is their own verified benchmark, which is telling.

New comment by usaar333 in "Claude Opus 4.6"

usaar333 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:59:27 +0000

i'd interpret that as rounding error. that is unchanged

swe-bench seems really hard once you are above 80%

New comment by usaar333 in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

usaar333 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:48:39 +0000

In Quebec it was a 20% jump in mother employment: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-31/affordabl...

And had all sorts of negative outcomes for the kids: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/long-term-study-of-...