I for one welcome our AI overlords.

I am mostly excited about all this but also feel incredibly sad at times about many aspects of it. We need a new word for this feeling pronto.

Deep Blues.

blursed?

If the SOTA models are consistently twice as smart as the Open Source then I agree with you. But the gap seems to be closing rapidly.

They’ve been saying that for the last 18 months at least. They’re always just a few months behind…

I picked double out of a hat, obviously there’s some intelligence gap that’s too small for a price premium beyond a certain point, but it seems like OpenAI and Anthropic’s revenue keeps climbing, so I don’t think we’ve hit it.

The gap really is closing, though. I don't remember the source, but there was a publication recently stating that it's 4 months at this point. So, 4 months where you can charge premium prices for the small subset of tasks where only a frontier model will do. I have to think the big AI duopoly is at an inflection point where most of their customers haven't just yet realized that they're being fleeced.

well, it is true. there is a price ceiling for intelligence, there were news about how adoption of fable was lower than expected, only hitting 11% of enterprise spending for customers with anthropic, iirc 26% for Sol with openai customers.

in any case, I've been using open and closed models since sonnet 4, i remember when the best I could get was qwen 3 480b coder, you can definitely feel the gap closing going from that and GLM 4.5, to GLM 5.3, DeepSeek Flash V4.1, Kimi K3 etc, it's reached the point where i wish I had V4.1 at work, it's faster and bullshits me less when I use it in my personal projects. And I have unlimited access to fable 5.1

Parsing large JSON can supposedly be much accelerated by SIMD

Well theres not much point in just parsing a large json file, there will always be more work which cant be done using SIMD and that work time will be significantly larger than the portion spent parsing.

That depends on the application. Maybe I have 1TB of json files in S3 and I want to compute an aggregate value from one of its fields.

Did they say its S3 data? Could also be single-az EBS or RDS.

What do you mean? Your comment reads like PlanetScale uses Aurora under the hood, you mean PlanetScale can handle bigger DB’s than Aurora?

He means that they moved from AWS to Planetscale and yes it handles much larger DBs.

Are you in Germany by chance?

Yep.

It is funny :-)

Moving to Germany from the US was like entering a timewarp. PayPal is still real??? People use it??

I get it now but it's a pretty big miss that GiroCard couldn't figure out how to displace them after all this time.

Sometimes it's the other way around. Lockers for packages were first introduced in Germany (Packstation) then they were rolled out in the US almost a decade later.

Not having a lot of credit cards and the associated rewards is actually healthy. Research has shown lower social classes "pay" for the rewards due to paying the higher transaction fees. There was actually a relevant thread here a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432201 (How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer)

:-)

Well, I used to live and work in South Korea for many years, so both DE and the US are about equally oldschool in my book :)

Did it take 18 hours because Fable is comically slow?

I think it's actually Opus 5 that is comically slow! And yes probably that was a factor. It was a lot of code too though.

Does this mean you are a human??

Do you think Anthropic or OpenAI will eventually try to crack down on routing harnasses? Provide a more vertically integrated experience? They are already trying ro ship hardware products.

I will believe there is no moat when the revenues for Anthropic is not 70B. It seems like people want to throw away money and they don’t like switching

There is no evidence that Anthropic's revenue is 70B.

Try, maybe. I don’t know how successful that can be. Will definitely be interesting to follow! Exciting times we are going through

Makes sense they discontinued it given that the last 5 iphones have been almost exactly the same

Indeed. I used to be on the upgrade program so I could upgrade every year, but decided to skip the 16 and keep my 15 until the 17 came out.

Even if you are upgrading every single year, it works out roughly the same to just buy every phone outright and then trade in last year's model -- you typically get ~half your purchase price back as trade-in value after a year anyway.

Hey that's not fair, there has been one actually useful "innovation" -- switching to USB-C like the rest of the world has been using for 10 years. Literally nothing has made me feel the slightest craving for a new iPhone since getting my 15 Pro Max.

The rest of the world should switch speed up and use thunderbolt five and tandem oled in return. :)

Yeah a 3-4 year cadence seems optimal now

Esp if you can swing a battery replacement at 2 years