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@Noahpinion Vibes have shifted again For me - Codex 5.4 Extra High (anything technical) and Chat GPT 4 Pro (research) - Opus for chatting and planning

Anecdotally I do feel like Opus 4.6 Extended was working great for me a couple weeks ago and is spitting out garbage now.

@realtornikeo @simonw x.com/simonw/status/…

@simonw I can't believe you didn't put Gemma 4 to the pelican benchmark yet.

Vibe check on Gemma 4 now that we've had a few days to play with it - how does it hold up against Qwen 3.5?

@JoinCrowdHealth @dvassallo @dbdoughty_ @Shpigford I love the idea of what you are doing - One thing I want to see happen are community pools for equipment - For example I could have bought my own CT scan for just 4x more than what they charged!

@JoinCrowdHealth @dvassallo @dbdoughty_ @Shpigford

self-employed folks in the US, what are you doing for health insurance?

@JoinCrowdHealth @dvassallo @dbdoughty_ @Shpigford What would you have gotten it down to? This was at a CommonSpirit urgent care...

@postscapes @dvassallo @dbdoughty_ @Shpigford You probably paid $7 or $8k for the CT. That doesn’t happen with CrowdHealth

@dvassallo @dbdoughty_ @Shpigford @JoinCrowdHealth $250k is nothing though in real emergency. I just fell off a ladder, quick 5 minute CT scan to check for internal bleeding - $38k bill. I cant imagine what a week or two with real incident would add up too...

@dbdoughty_ @Shpigford @JoinCrowdHealth I would negotiate an installment plan with the provider. $250K over 15 years is $1,388/mo. That's still smaller than the premium for the cheapest ACA plan I had access to. And the ACA plan can deny as well.

@Chris_arnade Housing $$, policy and zoning issue all the way down....

Every transit nerd — the urbanist who tell us over and over how much they love public transportation— has to realize until you stop this sort of crap, and make stopping it your number one goal, you and all your train love are doing nothing but annoying everyone else.

@TheFlowHorse We've been on the Biff timeline for awhile now..

Is anyone else just exhausted by all this even slightly? Absolutely no pause, just nonsense after nonsense after nonsense. Starting to think CERN experiments split us into an alternate universe.

@mattyp @rbranson Bro you live in SF - sidewalk feces capital of the free world

@rbranson you're welcome

SCOOP: shoes off now OPTIONAL at Cursor offices worldwide, according to inside source

@jessegenet As a parent of three I am counting down the seconds until the older kids take this game to level 9 and try to launch the younger sibling...

There are a lot of reasons to homeschool but the total hours different age siblings get to spend together is one of the best but least discussed 💕

Pigs are smarter than dogs. They solve puzzles, play video games with joysticks, and can outsmart 3-year-old children on some tests. Pigs are highly sentient, showing empathy by mirroring others' stress or joy, forming deep bonds of affection and love, and displaying loyalty through long-term memory and trust. Yet the pork lobby is sneaking the 'Save Our Bacon Act' into the farm bill to lock millions in cruel gestation crates for life.

@JohnLeFevre @reppettersen please vote against this... I live in your district 80465 - and also have sent your team an email. At the very least keep this up to the states

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@doodlestein Tell it about auctionsniper too .

Buying stuff on eBay is actually a pretty cool use case for the Claude Browser Plugin. My prompt is: "I have a spare 5975wx processor (because I recently upgraded to the 64-core variant). I'd like to buy a used server/workstation that I can easily put it into that I can put in my basement as an additional server. Ideally I could find something that has everything but the CPU and the RAM with a motherboard that is 100% sure to be compatible with the 5975wx chip from AMD, for the best possible price. I'm logged into ebay here. Please take over and find the best thing and figure out how much to bid to get a good deal by looking at previous ended auctions recently. I'm not in a rush at all and just want the best value for money with good performance and good brands." This sort of task, to do it well at least, requires technical knowledge, understanding of eBay dynamics, and a lot of TIME to sit there and grind through the listings to see what's really out there. And then to get a sense for where the market is for pricing, so that you can get a "below market" deal by being selective and waiting. It's the kind of thing that only made sense to spend the time on if you were cash-strapped and had to make every dollar count. I know that I personally usually get impatient and just sort by "ending first" and don't enjoy "losing" an auction (even though I took game theory in college and know all about "Winner's Curse"... the only good auction is one where you're the only bidder!). But if the agent is driving, then who cares? I can queue it up and go play with my kids for an hour and come back and it's done all this detailed work trying to find me the best possible deal in the world. I predict that this sort of thing will make eBay a much more efficient market over the next 2-3 years. I'm surprised more sites haven't tried to roll this sort of thing out themselves internally so they can control and observe the process more. But then again, I don't think I'd trust an eBay-branded agent as much as I do my sweet Claude clanker friend!

@Noahpinion Yes early Reddit to trying now to get scraps from this hellsite.. (owned by a guy who is maximally "truth seeking" while hand crafting Grok to stroke his ego)

Every time I think how much I love AI, I remember how much I enjoyed social media for the first decade, before it destroyed my society, corrupted my country, and set my species on an accelerated path to extinction

@TheFlowHorse All while here in Colorado the ski resorts are basically dirt in Feb - Two small snowstorms in Denver all Winter....

You gotta be kidding me dude. NY has been covered in old snow for a month and now more?

@aakashgupta And then we give ourselves a dopamine breather by going straight to X while the ai is plugging away....

This is a dopamine loop, and it’s one of the most powerful ones humans have ever encountered. Every time you prompt an AI and get a useful result back in seconds, your brain gets a hit. Variable-ratio reinforcement, same mechanism as slot machines, except the reward is real: actual output, actual progress, actual leverage on your ideas. Traditional work follows a delayed-reward structure. You write code for 6 hours, maybe it compiles, maybe you get feedback in a week. The gap between effort and reward is wide enough that motivation decays constantly. AI compresses that loop to seconds. Effort → reward → effort → reward. Your prefrontal cortex stays engaged because the next payoff is always one prompt away. This is why people describe it as “fun” when they’re actually working 14-hour days. The subjective experience of effort disappears when reward frequency is high enough. The “harder than ever” part is real too. When your bottleneck shifts from execution to imagination, you run out of excuses to stop. There’s no “waiting on the build” or “blocked by review.” Every idea you have can be tested immediately, which means your brain never gets a natural stopping point. People who thrive on this are selecting for a specific neurotype: high novelty-seeking, high conscientiousness, tolerance for rapid context-switching. That’s maybe 10-15% of the population. The other 85% will experience the same tools as overwhelming, not energizing. And that split is going to define the next decade of who captures value from AI and who gets displaced by it.

@budapp Looking forward to trying out. Any docs on database, auth, payments integrations?

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@tylercowen For those not tracking - Stock market rolling over (specifically SAAS) + Opus 4.6 release + Open AI Codex 5.3 (Thinking deeply for both..) = Above tweet

Today will go down as some kind of turning point. Somewhat arbitrarily, but it is OK if journalists and historians have to present things in that manner.

@maxboonen You might be hyperlexic? Tyler Cowen attributes his reading speed to this...