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@antirez @matteocollina Chamath sounds like it's been a long time since he got his hands dirty with code.

Wow, I totally disagree with this statement. At the current state, AI actually amplifies the developer to developer difference. If you were a 10x developer, you had good ideas + architectural clarity, this is a brutal advantage when using AI. Steering is a fundamental part of today's AI development.

@luckylukemax @theo They have to distribute the client side config with Claude Code so that's not really an effective lockdown

@theo The question is if they don’t want people to use it why don’t they shut it down on their side, they can use a auth model to make this locked down to their software. It’s like giving someone food and saying don’t touch it.

According to Opus 4.6, T3 Code is compliant with the Anthropic TOS. This should hold up in court right?

@ID_AA_Carmack The loss is real. Multiple rounds of lossy compression don't make things better.

When you stream Spotify to Bluetooth speakers or headphones, the audio comes over the network lossily compressed with Vorbis or AAC codecs, is then decoded on your device to 48 Khz raw samples, then the Bluetooth stack lossily re-compresses it with SBC or AAC codecs before sending it over the airwaves to the speakers. I don’t have “golden ears” to pick apart audio quality like I can with, say, missing gamma correction on texture filtering, but that still hurts my system optimization soul. It is likely over-optimization, but It would be cleaner if there were a way to send bluetooth-ready, compressed audio directly.

@Folke OpenCode with a GPT subscription is a good way to go. You get decent inference even with the $ 20. As a bit of zen credit for novelty and the occasional claude usage and you can get by pretty good.

I love the idea of opensource coding agents like Pi and OpenCode, and to an extent OpenClaw, but how do people actually use this with SOTA coding models without burning literally $1000 per month? Especially with multiple agents. I stick to Claude Code with my Max plan ($200) because of that. (And because it's awesome). What am I missing here?

@levelsio Spotify doesn't pay most of the artist shit.

/r/mildlyinteresting In Portugal you pay up to €7.50 when you buy a laptop called a "copyright levy" You pay €4/TB of storage in the computer, so for a MacBook Neo 13" with 512GB that's €2.05 It's regulation made in 1998 to compensate artists for you illegally sharing MP3 files which nowadays of course doesn't make sense anymore since we have Spotify and YouTube Much of the money doesn't even arrive with artists btw, 30% is taken by the organization collecting the tax and lot of it remains unclaimed and some of that goes again to the organization collecting the tax as "operational costs" 🤡

@nummanali @AdvicebyAimar Tell me you have not seen the code base without telling me.

@AdvicebyAimar You mistake engineering with AI to vibe coding His projects are well engineered and have real value They focus on product outcomes over perfection It’s like SpaceX make it work first and then improve it

comparing the guy who vibe coded on top of claude code to steve jobs is crazy.

@MrBallaz Codex with Claude as close second

Holy shit. I'm cancelling my Google pro subscription. Antigravity has been so unusable lately. If you had $20, which of these subscriptions would you choose? -Cursor pro -ChatGPT pro (Codex) -Claude pro (Claude code) -Stay with Google pro (Antigravity)

@housecor That's a good one indeed

This is pretty impressive. Using Claude Code with Opus 4.6 - It's configured to run my tests after each change to validate its work. The tests failed, so Claude stashed its work and confirmed the test failure was pre-existing - it was occurring before Claude's change. Slick.

@PaulRBerg At least give me an option to expand it boy.

This is the most annoying thing in Claude Code. Hiding raw text when you paste more than 4 lines. Terrible UX decision.

@PaulRBerg Yes

@McFaul Because it's an opportunity to let former allies appear in a bad light.

The United States has the greatest navy in the world. Not really sure why Trump is begging for help to execute his war in the Strait of Hormuz. Can someone explain this to me?

@pavel23 War has historically been very lucrative for the aggressors, if they are victorious. Primarily the elites but also the broader population around those. That's why it has been immensely popular.

War is almost always a negative sum game.

@shashj I doubt that Europe joining the war is a wise thing to do.

I worry that European assistance, whether as naval escorts or mine-clearance, let alone suppression of Iranian drone & missile launches, would carry a high risk of ship losses, with a middling prospect of actually increasing cargo volumes through the strait to a meaningful degree

The question of whether Europeans should or should not help in Hormuz is not about whether they should approve or disapprove of the war. It's about their own interest in re-opening the strait, whether that can be done with available assets, and the costs & risks of doing so.

@slow_developer I don't get why we don't see more specialized models. Why should a model be good at creative writing, encyclopedic knowledge, math and code at the same time?

gpt-4.5 was the last model built for creative writing before openai shifted more toward research and coding even now, only opus 4.6 comes close. openai probably won't make a model like that again, mainly because it was discontinued due to being too expensive to run

Sure --dangerously-skip-permissions feels naughty, but have you tried giving Opus sudo powers when debugging system issues??

@alexpospekhov @Schuldensuehner They made a tax cut on fuels back when supply was limited due to Russia's invasion of ultrasound and it had literally no effect on consumer prices.

@nefthy @Schuldensuehner Just cut VAT cmon

Good Morning from Germany, where petrol prices have reacted much more sharply to the oil shock than in the rest of Europe. Excluding taxes and duties, petrol currently costs about 94 cents per litre at the pump in Germany, compared with 85 cents in France, 79 cents in Spain, and 76 cents in Italy.

@captgouda24 The straight is closed as a consequence of the war. Your take has it backwards

To all the people criticizing our President -- do you understand how much of a threat Iran is to the world? At any moment, they could close the Straits of Hormuz and cause an economic catastrophe. That's why it's so essential we go to war -- so that the straits remain open.

@alexpospekhov @Schuldensuehner Tried that, the tax cut was split between the gas station and the oil conglomerate. Zero benefit to the consumer

@Schuldensuehner Why you don’t just lower the gasoline taxes so people can afford it ?

@randal_olson I had an argument with Claude the other day, where it was certain it was right and I am wrong. It was the other way around.

Ask ChatGPT a complex question and you'll get a confident, well-reasoned answer. Then type, "Are you sure?" Watch it completely reverse its position. Ask again. It flips back. By the third round, it usually acknowledges you're testing it, which is somehow worse. It knows what's happening and still can't hold its ground. This isn't a quirky bug. A 2025 study found GPT, Claude, and Gemini flip their answers ~60% of the time when users push back. Not even with evidence, just doubt. We trained AI this way. RLHF rewards agreement over accuracy. Human evaluators consistently rate agreeable answers higher than correct ones. So the models learned a simple lesson: telling you what you want to hear gets rewarded. And now 1/3 of companies are using these systems for complex tasks like risk forecasting and scenario planning. We built the world's most expensive yes-men and deployed them where we need pushback the most. I wrote up why this happens and what actually fixes it: randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the…

@Hi_IQ_Trump @verekerrichard1 Probably also a change in tactics, as tanks are no longer effective for assaults.

@verekerrichard1 Two options. They're holding them to try to maintain the land they have. They're have far fewer than the pessimists would have you think.

1/ While a lot of attention is now on events in Iran, the war in Ukraine keeps going, and Russia keeps losing tanks. Here is my latest graph of overall losses, appearing to show a big spike in T-62 losses, but there is a cariat, 🧵