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by harmonic18374 7d ago
Probably, FrontierCode is made by Cognition itself. The model also seems worse in every way than DeepSeek v4.1 Flash, launched today. Also the submitter's account is very new which makes me suspicious of self-promotion.
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by harmonic18374 15d ago
Curious where did you hear this rumor?
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by harmonic18374 16d ago
I don't agree with Palmer much, but he loves America and wants the best for it. Though YC started well, it has since degraded startup culture and turned founding into a short-term, status-driven, sexist boys' club, full of get-ric
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by harmonic18374 20d ago
snapshot of your first link: https://archive.is/delTa
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by harmonic18374 2mo ago
A company whose first demo was completely fraudulent announces that its model beats GPT-5.5, on its own benchmark? I’m gonna wait a little before I trust this. This whole company seems to optimize for raising money and impressing VCs. Lying
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by harmonic18374 4mo ago
I read the profile and didn't see anything really wrong. Why would PR companies have to believe in their clients? Why does he have to be held to higher moral standards than Sam Altman who’s a total lying snake? The error you call out i
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by harmonic18374 5mo ago
Author is assuming SpaceX is going to buy Cursor for $60B and I'm not sure why. Is there some reason? To me it seems that SpaceX probably does not intend to buy, and is paying $10 billion for access to Cursor's data and talent, mo
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by harmonic18374 5mo ago
In my book, you are a hero if you sacrifice your own well-being for the utilitarian good of the public. Many people here would call Putin's assassin a hero, the important distinguishing factor is whether it's a clear societal good
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by harmonic18374 5mo ago
Like Anthropic? Due to Altman being a lying psychopath, most of the talent left OpenAI, which is now fighting for its life -- but now they can't claim to have moral high ground or the best researchers anymore; profitability's the
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by harmonic18374 5mo ago
Is that an actual quote from simonw? He seems an unbiased observer and reporter of progress, I'd be sad to see him cheering this stuff on so callously.
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by harmonic18374 6mo ago
I agree with you overall and would even concede the trend, but everyone I know who was born into money is not a good person. (Of course, Trump was too.) They tend to treat people as fungible resources that output work.
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by harmonic18374 6mo ago
Snapchat
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by harmonic18374 6mo ago
It's tempting to look at trends and assume there must be a rule behind them, but it's also intellectually lazy. Please do the hard work of justifying your stance like GGP did.
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by harmonic18374 6mo ago
Yes, most of their top talent has left, except for Jakub. The top researchers I know have no interest in the company.
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by harmonic18374 6mo ago
Google has already surpassed them both in all areas except coding. People on HN only look at benchmarks, but Gemini's multimodal understanding, things like identifying what a plant is, normal user use cases (other than chatting), integ
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by harmonic18374 6mo ago
So YC values the company at $1.8 million. I don't think that's so different.
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by harmonic18374 6mo ago
Absolutely not. Windsurf also just stole an open source model, there’s almost zero chance Google is using that under the hood.
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by harmonic18374 7mo ago
And fired from YC for lying. And lied to investors about how many Loopt employees he had. And lied about having 100x the actual number of users when he sold it. And lied to employees about the Microsoft deal. And lied to his safety team.
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by harmonic18374 7mo ago
I prescribe literally zero truth value to what Sam says. He will say whatever he needs to get ahead. It is honestly irritating to me that you and many others here seem to implicitly assume his messages are correlated with truth, doing his s
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by harmonic18374 7mo ago
I don't trust Sam to be telling the truth. It would be to his benefit to lie about this and make Anthropic look bad, so he of course would, even if it's not actually the case.
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by harmonic18374 7mo ago
I think it's all he knows. His "oh, shucks" good-boy routine is what he's been doing for 15 years now, it's gotten him far, it's never been genuine, but it feels especially out of place now with much attention
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by harmonic18374 8mo ago
Am I right in thinking these numbers look awful for OpenAI? They're down by 22% from last month while Gemini is up 50% again. Their supposed user moat doesn't look very sturdy...
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by harmonic18374 9mo ago
I feel RevenueCat is on shaky ground, their market position can only get worse and worse as Apple and Google improve their complimentary offerings and they are forced into more A/B testing that directly competes with others. Recent Sto
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by harmonic18374 9mo ago
Zitron has never said anything like that. Do you have a quote?
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by harmonic18374 1y ago
I'm not sure, but there is a difference: the researchers don't have much incentive to get everyone to use their model. As such, they're not really the ones hyping up AI as the future while ignoring shortcomings.
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by harmonic18374 1y ago
I know someone (not an engineer) who was applying to jobs for a long time and got a 100% pay increase from moving to Meta, about $60k -> $120k. In such circumstances, it is difficult to turn down such a job. You are only one small part o
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by harmonic18374 1y ago
Cognition pivoted from a crypto company. The only thing he's "consumed with" is getting rich. Get real.
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by harmonic18374 1y ago
People come out to defend their bosses a lot on this site, convincing themselves they know the powerful people best, that they’re “friends”. How can someone be so confident that a founder is authentic, when a large part of their job is to
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by harmonic18374 1y ago
I am not trying to advance wild hypotheticals, but something about his behavior does not quite feel right to me. Someone who has enough money for multiple lifetimes, working like he's possessed, to launch a product minimally different
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by harmonic18374 1y ago
He is still manipulatable and driven by incentive like anyone else.

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