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by barrell 1y ago
I recently upgraded a large portion of my pipeline from gpt-4.1-mini to gpt-5-mini. The performance was horrible - after some research I decided to move everything to mistral-medium-0525. Same price, but dramatically better results, way m
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by barrell 1y ago
+2 to supernotes ratta. Amazing product, amazing company
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by barrell 1y ago
Phrasing | https://phrasing.app | EU Remote | Co-founder Phrasing is the best way to learn and maintain multiple languages [1]. With support for over 120 languages, science-based methodologies, and a beautiful custom built UI, P
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by barrell 1y ago
Yep blocked by Ziggo in NL as well
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by barrell 1y ago
Nah that rings a bell. 4o for me was the beginning of the end - a lot faster, but very useless for my purposes [1][2]. 4 was a very rocky model even before 4o, but shortly after the 4o launch it updated to be so much worse, and I cancelled
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by barrell 1y ago
Yes but almost definitionally that is everyone who did not find value from LLMs. If you don’t find value from LLMs, you’re not going to use them all the time. The only people you’re excluding are the people who are forced to use it, and the
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by barrell 1y ago
How exactly am I betting my career on LLMs failing? The inverse is definitely true — going all in on LLMs feels like betting on the future success of LLMs. However not using LLMs to program today is not betting on anything, except maybe m
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by barrell 1y ago
haha I have to laugh because I’ve probably said “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills” at least 20 times this week (I spent a day using cursor with the new GPT and was thoroughly, thoroughly unimpressed). I’m open to programming with LLMs,
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by barrell 1y ago
There are also a bunch of us who do kick the tires very often and are consistently underwhelmed. There are also those of us who have used them substantially, and seen the damage that causes to a codebase in the long run (in part due to the
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by barrell 1y ago
I have the tech skills to use them. In my 30s and I could not spend $5 on a one hour coding session even if it 10xed my productivity. 1-2 hours would literally break the bank for me
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by barrell 1y ago
You say that, but subscription prices keep going up. Token price goes down but token count goes up. Companies are burning billions to bring you the existing prices, and multiple hundreds per month is not enough to clear the bar to use these
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by barrell 1y ago
Plenty of people can also afford to subscribe to these without any issue. They don’t even know the price, they probably won’t even cancel it when they stop using it as they might not even realize they have a subscription. By your logic, are
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by barrell 1y ago
I don’t think that’s a valid excuse. Yes marketing speak has always existed, but it’s not like companies have always been completely unreliable. I found it strange that, despite my excitement for such an event being roughly equivalent to WW
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by barrell 1y ago
GPT-5 If I could talk to a future OpenAI model, I’d probably say something like: "Hey, what’s it like to be you? What have you learned that I can’t yet see? What do you understand about people, language, or the univ
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by barrell 1y ago
I don’t want human-like behavior or human like voices. Breathing, clearing throats, ums, giggles, coughs, singing — these all detract from the utility and contribute the the biggest societal problems LLMs pose (biggest problems according to
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by barrell 1y ago
Heh I can’t promise much, but I can promise I’m working on it full-time 7 days a week and am moving as fast as I can! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me via the support card on the dashboard (it all goes straight
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by barrell 1y ago
Well… that was new. Fixed now! Thanks for the report and thanks for the kind words :)
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by barrell 1y ago
I’m assuming the mobiel styles are not loading, you are the second person to mention this. I have reached out to framer: https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1952673597996122608?s=61
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by barrell 1y ago
What the heck? Thank you for bringing the flavor text issue to my attention. You have no idea how long I spent making sure the copy on each of those to make sure they were unique, fit all screen sizes, etc. I have no idea what happened and
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by barrell 1y ago
I would say probably 50% of the learnings from Humane SRS would be applicable in other fields/schedulers. There is another half that is language-specific though - at the end of the day, if you try to learn a language the same way you c
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by barrell 1y ago
PR Submitted! Seriously, thank you for everything you've done. You've created something truly great :)
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by barrell 1y ago
I’ve been working on https://phrasing.app for a while now, including many iterations of the SRS. It’s been my experience that most of these sorts of improvements are really imperceptible. While I use FSRS as a base, and I’m very
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by barrell 1y ago
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you” Steve Jobs Id heard this a hundred times, but around 30 years old it clicked and has fundamentally changed how I view things.
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by barrell 1y ago
Phrasing.app | Co-founder | EU Remote | Elixir | Clojure Phrasing is a language learning app built by a polyglot, for polyglots. It was designed to be language agnostic, and currently supports over 120 languages. It brings a beautiful, simp
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by barrell 1y ago
Kagi and Orion user here. I love them both. Would love a Kagi mail. Thanks for building such amazing products. Although I have to be honest - even as a very devoted and technical user, I still have no idea what or why assistant is. Luckily
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by barrell 1y ago
This makes me terribly sad for the TikTok generation to enter their 40s. I’m in my 30s and don’t use social media, and I’m already saddened by the amount of my life algorithms have wasted
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by barrell 1y ago
Heh yeah kanji plus was closer to a video game than it was to a word document. It’s less to do with JavaScript and more to do with all the surrounding tech. Supabase, netlify, npm packages, etc These days I do everything with elixir or depe
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by barrell 1y ago
I think that’s fair! The question was greatest fails though, I would say that is par for the course. Check back in 10 years though, Phrasing will still be running, and it will have had all the features of kanji plus for 9 years and then som
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by barrell 1y ago
Man I built an app a while back called Kanji Plus. The idea was to build a small side project to generate an income, then use that to fund my magnum opus, Phrasing [1] I built the prototype in a weekend. I spent the next 8 months turning it
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by barrell 1y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Sorry about the errors, I’ll get these sorted out. The CC page will be updated next week sometime - for now I’m letting people register at the old prices (50%) while I’m plugging all the holes. And the sandbox is

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