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@EddyFurniss Does the ball have to be fully in the zone? That’s the only sane explanation for 2” wider than the plate. If ABS is like mlb with any portion touching you can have a ball 2-3” off the plate as a strike. Make it make sense. 🥴

I was really looking forward to ABS in the SEC tournament. Fans love it more than I expected in pro ball. Now that I know the zone is going to be big (not even technically a strike under the rulebook), I’m not so sure. For example, the pitch in this graphic is most definitely a ball in the big leagues and probably in most SEC games. Official SEC 2026 ABS specs: 
• Width: 19 inches (home plate is 17” wide).
• Top: 58% of the batter’s certified standing height.
• Bottom: 23% of the batter’s certified standing height.
• It’s positioned over the middle of the plate (8.5” in front of the back tip). For comparison (per MLB’s official ABS specs): 
• Width: 17 inches.
• Top: 53.5% of height.
• Bottom: 27% of height. That’s roughly 6–7 inches bigger vertically than MLB’s 2026 ABS zone for the same player. Add the extra 2 inches of width and you get a noticeably bigger target. For a typical SEC hitter around 6’1” (73”), the zone runs from roughly 16.8” to 42.3” high. Still a big rectangle that includes pitches that would often look “up” or “down” to the naked eye (and definitely off the plate edges). I guess we will see. It will likely take out the most egregious bad calls but leave mildly bad calls which is so odd to me. 🤔 But that’s the point of an experiment.

@rustybrick It sucks when good communities fade out. Felt the same way with a lot of early forums like WMW and Sitepoint.

I miss the engagement from the SEO community on here...

@DataChaz Outstanding! 😆

just like my vibe-coded app—yeah, it’s buggy, but if it works, don't touch a thing

@pmarca Well definitely get there and inference will eventually be stupid cheap…just not fast enough to make discounting a feasible near-term strategy.

@pmarca It felt like investment wasn’t going to outlast burn to realize economic scale very early on for me with AI. The impact will dwarf the Industrial Revolution & the world doesn’t have the capacity to get there w/ the subsidized undercut for market share playbook.

It’s an unfortunate time for the industry to run out of every single important component in the supply chain.

I wish finding a post I liked in the past wasn't so challenging. Any chance of getting a search operator for likes @nikitabier

@antigravity "taste test" gtfoh. Cancelled

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@GaelBreton Love the setup, Gael. How much of your Claude interactions are Sonnet 4.6 (if any)? I've been pretty impressed with it so far. It's gonna suck if it follows recent Anthropic trends and gets lobotomized in a few weeks.

Every founder and marketer needs to set up AI workflows in 2026. Not optional anymore. The people who figure this out first are going to have an absurd advantage over everyone else. I recorded a full walkthrough of the setup I use to run most of my marketing. Ads, SEO, emails, community, thumbnails, dashboards. I'll show you how all of it works and how you can set it up yourself.

@GaelBreton I really don't get it. For most of my use cases Gemini Pro hasn't been very competitive in a while. On paper, they should have the best frontier model. Perhaps they've fallen off. I assume it's an inference budgeting issue and internal > retail/api on the priority scale.

Been testing Gemini 3.1 pro to build a simple portfolio site in Antigravity: So far it's 10x slower than Opus and actually worse 😬. Back to Claude. I'll let it keep spinning but overall, it's not very good in this harness at least to build things.

@levelsio Idiocracy irl. Unreal. It truly makes me sad to see.

We hebben een serieus probleem

@levelsio I always assumed it was shifting inference for training or large customers. It’ll be a long time before any of these companies won’t be playing a resource shell game. Kind of the same thing I guess. It’s always obvious to the heavy users.

My secret conspiracy theory about AI companies is they nerf models to save on compute Then they check X to see if anyone notices it If yes, give back compute If not, continue

@iannuttall Love the domain! 🤝

I built a tool* to turn any Chrome tab, X bookmark or URL into a Markdown API for agents like 🦞 keep.md Add the skill and they can fetch your content on schedule to: - summarize articles - draft blog posts - write social media bangers * wip, extension pending

@CNviolations Imagine believing the polls are legit and accurate 😬

I wonder how this guy is doing now

@forwarddeploy Sweet!

Who wants one?

Understood, thanks. FWIW, I bought the first Auth Hacker offering because I liked your approach and could tell you were real and not BSing. I'd been doing very well full-time solo since 2007. You were in slightly different realms of SEO and aff/lead gen from me at the time so it allowed me to scale learning quicker based on your experience. Only ~5% was viable for me, but it was good and worth it. Your AI content process was more advanced than mine when it was released in the later days. It was impressive.

@grakegrake I know many marketers on the $100 plan who are happy with it. I think it's the best plan for them. Honestly accelerator is for business owners that need to catch up and want premade workflows. If you have your own its all good ✌️

Your job right now is to figure out how to maximize the use of a $200 Claude Max Plan. That's where the real arbitrage is on the web.

Fair. I'd take Claude for marketing as well. I'm not sure I've run into anyone using Max that isn't a hardcore builder, but if there was one it would definitely be you. I'm so deep into these tools and my own processes that it's hard to justify your AI Accelerator, but I'm tempted just to see your processes and what you've built. 🤝

@grakegrake Depends on your role. For hardcore builders, 5.2 may be better. For marketers, I find Claude to be a better all rounder.

@elonmusk You nailed this one @JeremyClarkson 😆

True

@Charles_SEO Correct answer on all counts. Easy to spot the ones actually using them all.

Which model you should use for each SEO task: Coding - Claude Opus 4.5 Writing - Gemini 3 Research - ChatGPT 5.1 or Perplexity Image Generation - Nano Banana Pro Video - Veo 3.1 OpenAI is supposed to release another model that outperforms Gemini 3 this week though 👀

@rustybrick consistency...err freshness

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