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by alwillis 5mo ago
If you’re paying out of your nose, you would have forward deployed Anthropic/OpenAI engineers on the premises.
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by alwillis 5mo ago
Most workflows use a sub agent to review the code or an agent from a different company. For example, Codex can review code written by Claude, etc.
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by alwillis 6mo ago
AI agents also use LSP to be more efficient with source code [1]. [1]: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins-reference#lsp-server...
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> Even if only 1% of your users use X, for Apple that might translate to perhaps 10 million people using X, or at 0.1% 1 million. Hiring a dev to improve the experience for that many people just makes sense at scale; software is write-on
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by alwillis 6mo ago
This looks very promising.
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> I can't understand removing Claude Code from $20 Not according to their webpage: "Claude Code is included in your Pro plan. Perfect for short coding sprints in small codebases with access to both Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7.&quot
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> If you are using LLMs for tool use locally, then in a decade it will not make sense anymore to pay for hosted solutions. Your device will have compute power to run powerful LLMs trivially. LLMs a couple of years ago that'd be impo
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by alwillis 6mo ago
Due to the RAM shortages, Apple isn't able to meet demand as it is. Apple's Mac revenue last fiscal year was $33.7 billion. I suspect the number of Linux users that might buy a Mac if it could run Linux natively is probably in r
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> As for Windows on ARM, I'd bet that if Microsoft had managed to figure out their own product, Apple might have been tempted to support it. That was totally up to Microsoft [1]. [1]: "Craig Federighi: Native Windows on M1 Macs
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> It would literally sell more Mac devices The Mac has never been more popular in its 40 year history than it is now. The recently released MacBook Neo broke all previous Mac sales records. Needing to sell more Macs isn't an issue t
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by alwillis 6mo ago
It's not what everyone wants but Apple supports Linux containers [1]. I've used it and it works well. [1]: https://opensource.apple.com/projects/container/
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> then eventually it will go down enough that we will run on our LLMs locally and Anthropic will go out of business. I want robust local LLMs as much as the next person—Gemma E2B, 3.2GB does my word completions as I type. It's gotte
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by alwillis 6mo ago
>The problem is that this is an incredibly niche / small issue (i.e. <<1% of users, let alone prompts It's not a niche issue at all. 29 million people in the US are struggling with an eating disorder [1]. > This single
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by alwillis 6mo ago
Anthropic provides details regarding between Opus 4.7 and 4.6, including Opus 4.7 doesn't call tools as frequently as 4.6 due to being more capable. Depending on the task at hand, that could a good thing or not so good [1]. For example
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> Have you ever been tempted to look at others like Hugo? Not really; I didn't see any must-have features that I couldn't live without.
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> Might go back to Affinity 2. Sure, but they stopped updating Affinity 2; at some point, it's going to stop working unless you never upgrade your operating system.
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> It will never be cheaper than what it is today. Anthropic is heavily subsidizing. We don't know that for sure—they've dropped prices before: 1. Claude 3 → Claude 3.5/3.7 generation (mid-2024 to early 2025): Haiku went fr
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by alwillis 6mo ago
Things to keep in mind: • Claude Design uses Opus 4.7, which is more expensive than earlier models. • It's just Day 2; it's not a finished product. It's ridiculous how quickly Anthropic iterates. • If you've been using C
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> I miss the days of having a native desktop design app with a perpetual license. You can go that route with Affinity Designer [1], owned by Canva, who partnered with Anthropic on Claude Design [2]: We’ve loved collaborating with Anthro
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> Why should I believe that Anthropic will care about this product in 2, 3 years? There's no reason to believe Anthropic will stop caring about this product--they're not Google [1] after all. > It really feels like Anthropic
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> Sure wish hg had won. To me, it's more like GitHub won; Git came along for the ride. Back in the day when companies evaluated Git and Mercurial (Facebook, Google, Microsoft), they decided Mercurial was better. Mozilla used Mercuri
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> Sapling and JJ can sort it out, the outside world will only care for one of them. I was immediately intrigued when I learned that JJ has revsets [1], just like Mercurial. [1]: https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/revsets
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> I'm so glad git won the dvcs war. There was a solid decade where mercurial kept promoting itself as "faster than git". It wasn't the Mercurial team saying it was faster than Git; that was Facebook after contributing
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by alwillis 6mo ago
Most modern terminals have a built-in multiplexing anyway. When you use tmux, you're essentially using a terminal emulator on top of a terminal emulator.
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> While that paper praises the Apple advantage in SSD speed, which allows a decent performance for inference with huge models, nowadays SSD speeds equal or greater than that can be achieved in any desktop PC that has dual PCIe 5.0 SSDs,
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> We still aren't going to be putting 200gb ram on a phone in a couple years to run those local models. You can already buy an iPhone with 2 TB of storage. The CPU, GPU and Neural Engine all share the same pool of RAM and the SSD is
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by alwillis 6mo ago
Agreed. Apple is sells an iPhone Pro Max with 2 TB of storage.
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by alwillis 6mo ago
> I’ve got many catholic relatives that describe themselves as vegetarians and eat fish Those are pescatarians. It's like how a tomato is a fruit, but it's used as a vegetable, meat has traditionally been the flesh of warm-bloo
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by alwillis 6mo ago
Been on the Jekyll bandwagon for a long time now; it's my go-to static site generator.
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DIY MacBook Neo upgrade can boost the SSD to 1TB using iPhone parts(9to5mac.com)
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