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New comment by winstonp in "Web Search API"

winstonp — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:52:33 +0000

Their free tier for stuff like Workers and D1 is quite generous.

New comment by winstonp in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

winstonp — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 05:03:38 +0000

The only additional note I'd have to add is Tomlin was one of the NFL's rare "CEO" coaches - he doesn't call plays for either side of the ball, so he probably is ever so slightly less busy than a head coach who happens to do so.

New comment by winstonp in "Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster"

winstonp — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:36:32 +0000

the codex desktop app bundles libreoffice's libraries. i wouldn't be surprised if claude does something similar.

New comment by winstonp in "New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore"

winstonp — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:00:43 +0000

the salary weighted lottery today is a good step in the right direction IMO.

New comment by winstonp in "Muse Spark 1.3"

winstonp — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:52:04 +0000

It's the perfect model for open-source work because it's gonna end up in the training data anyway

New comment by winstonp in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

winstonp — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:53:06 +0000

I think it's overbloating my computer

New comment by winstonp in "Don't paste the AI, please"

winstonp — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:38:24 +0000

It's a habit in specific countries, China is one in my experience.

New comment by winstonp in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

winstonp — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:19:11 +0000

Cursor was 60B. The 10B number was the breakup fee if the deal fell through.

New comment by winstonp in "Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max"

winstonp — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:20:43 +0000

16 tokens / s is not nothing.

New comment by winstonp in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

winstonp — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:40:19 +0000

Apple isn't counting on their model to be a frontier coding and cowork model. Gemini is perfectly fine for the tasks that new Siri is supposed to be doing.

New comment by winstonp in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

winstonp — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:48:51 +0000

That is not the Grok CLI being discussed. That's an open source, third party CLI. https://x.ai/cli is the official Grok CLI being discussed, and it is not open source.

New comment by winstonp in "Introducing Muse Spark 1.1"

winstonp — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:51:10 +0000

The avg coding session has hundreds or thousands of tool calls. Even a 5% failure rate noticeably notches up token use and cost. See Gemini.

New comment by winstonp in "Grok 4.5"

winstonp — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:47:44 +0000

Doubt. Tried it, Grok 4.5 is leaps and bounds ahead of Gemini for real work.

And token costs vs. raw compute+electric cost is unit profitable too.

New comment by winstonp in "Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough"

winstonp — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:15:52 +0000

While I mostly agree with your post, I do want to point out one thing:

> Or he could release a model trained largely by existing open weights models. Which without some huge breakthrough probably has no chance of surpassing them, so is pointless.

This seems to be categorically untrue. Composer 2.5 is a substantial improvement on its underlying Kimi base model.

New comment by winstonp in "Claude Sonnet 5"

winstonp — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:22:17 +0000

same happened to Opus 4.7

New comment by winstonp in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

winstonp — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:17:15 +0000

the British are notoriously sensitive to heat. They'll call 30 Celsius weather a heat wave.

New comment by winstonp in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

winstonp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:01:40 +0000

do we think he found it on craigslist

New comment by winstonp in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

winstonp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:44:08 +0000

Gemini pretty clearly has the best underlying model, and the worst RL and post-training of the lot.

New comment by winstonp in "Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?"

winstonp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:36:26 +0000

It is ridiculous to be building infrastructure with a seventy five year lifespan under an assumption that may never come in its entire life.

New comment by winstonp in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

winstonp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:32:48 +0000

Car apps, beside Tesla, are universally awful to use. Even Tesla's is not beyond reproach (app size is massive, for one), but at least it doesn't make me want to poke my eyes out. Apple should make a "Cars" app that's like the "Watch" app and let them standardize.