surgical_fire

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by surgical_fire 5d ago
> I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. Ok, flagging this as misinformation.
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by surgical_fire 6d ago
This shit again? This is pure, unadulterated, D.O.P. bullshit. That I see it making the rounds here so often and so many people buying into this crap makes me relieved that no one in real life knows that I have an HN account. I would be ash
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by surgical_fire 6d ago
By all means, I don't disagree. I just have a policy of stressing the point that EU is not a country when people comment on it as of it had the powers of a national government. In fact, as someone that lives in one of those countries,
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by surgical_fire 6d ago
Then your comment is sort of pointless too. Unless you want to argue "every country in the world that does not produce enough oil and does not have enough refining capacity for said oil should electrify". Then singling out EU coun
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by surgical_fire 6d ago
EU is not a country. Taxation on crude oil and its byproducts is largely for each member state to decide, as is electrification policy. In some cases the EU steps in; for example with CO2 emission quotas, electrification targets, and largel
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by surgical_fire 6d ago
> It's not possible to fight OpenAI or Anthropic's engineering teams And yet, I find Pi so much better to work with than Claude Code.
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by surgical_fire 6d ago
> OpenAI would have no incentive to taint its first math announcement of this magnitude if it knew it were "plagiarizing" another person's work. That people still think OpenAI has, in the Year of Our Lord 2026, any integri
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by surgical_fire 7d ago
Sounds like a problem with your provider, or with how your harness sends requests. All DeepSeek models have 384k maximum output tokens: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing
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by surgical_fire 7d ago
DeepSeek user here. I very much prefer they don't raise prices.
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by surgical_fire 7d ago
I used a lot V4 flash to implement plans built by other models, and it was honestly top notch. The thing was a workhorse, and I got none of the isuses you describe. I was mostly using DeepSeek on Pi, connecting to their API directly (not so
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by surgical_fire 8d ago
This is not evidence. This is random people speculating on Anthropic's margins without any real evidence. Just because it is on some blog post, it does not make it true. I wasted the time to read the first blog post. It considers 100%
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by surgical_fire 8d ago
Yes. Yesterday, Opus 5 on Claude Code with high effort. It was to build an extremely simple job using an internal framework to walk through a table and log the ids os some records that have a certain scenario. There's a ton of jobs exa
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by surgical_fire 8d ago
Do you quantify the chance of any doomsday cult being right too?
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by surgical_fire 8d ago
I still have to correct Claude on very basic misconceptions whenever I get it to code shit. Sometimes it gets wrong things that I had spelled out already. It may be the Doomsday machine, but it is a very silly one. If it kills humans it wil
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by surgical_fire 8d ago
I read this. I still think it's complete bullshit. The person posting this may very well believe in all this crap, I don't dispute that. People believe in all sorts of shit.
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by surgical_fire 8d ago
This affected flights going to the UK as well. Source: Me, stuck in an airport, having witnessed numerous flights destined to London canceled throughout the day.
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by surgical_fire 8d ago
> Market reward is the best proxy for good we have. Only if the goal is profit. All else be damned. > What's your alternative? Executive fiat? Mob rule? It is always bewildering to me that people see the world being raped by corp
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by surgical_fire 9d ago
If Google does anything good for the world it is entirely accidental, and I am certain they will correct this mistake later.
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by surgical_fire 9d ago
> serving models is very profitable (70%+) All your argument hangs on this. I see no evidence of this being true.
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by surgical_fire 9d ago
Wihout insight on how much enterprise is paying, it is impossible to draw any conclusions. Unless you have any access to their contracts and are willing to share evidence? I find that highly unlikely. People here throw around crazy numbers
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by surgical_fire 9d ago
Are their API token costs highly inflated? I see no evidence of that.
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by surgical_fire 9d ago
Or they bleed money like crazy, and their margins are pretty awful. Which is the correct answer. Your $200 subscription is a major net loss for them. The vast majority that pays for that would cancel in a heartbeat the moment they had to pa
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by surgical_fire 9d ago
> They're likely over $80b ARR by now. They'll be at $800b ARR next year at the same rate. And they will be 800 trilion ARR in a couple of years, following that same rate! 8 quadrillion by 2029! > When you are growing so fas
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by surgical_fire 9d ago
The same can be said of the $200 plan.
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by surgical_fire 10d ago
I would argue that absolute insanity is surrendering all control of infrastructure to cloud providers. Especially when you are using managed services that lock you in, making any plans of migrating way ridiculously painful. It takes a CTO w
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by surgical_fire 10d ago
> You don't account for repair, replacement and upgrade? You don't want to expand your power grid? This is a very naive take to be honest. You took the time to comment this, but apparently didn't take the time to read the
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by surgical_fire 10d ago
This is not about Linux. They are replacing Office365.
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by surgical_fire 10d ago
> Firstly we have seen unprecedented evidence of AI having a will of its own There's certainly no shortage of people believing in AI hype.
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by surgical_fire 12d ago
> You think other countries can't restrict those things? Restricting components related to those things will work just fine. Eh, once you have built your grid in solar and wind, you don't really depend on the countries that sol
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by surgical_fire 12d ago
Eh, English is the closest thing to a Lingua Franca in Europe, if you want to get as broad as possible. Especially for a git service, something what would will be eminently used by software developers, who mostly can speak English anyway.

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