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by nikcub 8mo ago
and anyone notice that the pace has broken xAI and they were just dropped behind? The frontier improvement release loop is now ant -> openai -> google
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by nikcub 8mo ago
mirror: https://archive.is/NLZxj
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New OpenAI funding to top $100B(bloomberg.com)
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by nikcub 8mo ago
My peak number of orders p.a was in 2023: 215 orders In 2025 it was 27 orders I expect it to be even lower this year. I didn't even buy my eero router upgrade from Amazon. I largely attribute this to poor quality products, horrible sea
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by nikcub 8mo ago
Enabling /extra-usage in my (personal) claude code[0] with this env: "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL": "claude-sonnet-4-6[1m]" has enabled the 1M context window. Fixed a UI issue I had yesterday in a web ap
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by nikcub 8mo ago
I also remember when the playstation 2 required an export control license because it's 1GFLOP of compute was considered dangerous that was also brilliant marketing
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by nikcub 8mo ago
Regardless of what you think of OpenClaw, Peter is a great hire - he's been at the forefront of brute-forcing app development with coding agents.
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by nikcub 8mo ago
the way they respond to security and privacy incidents + publishing technical security + privacy papers / docs
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by nikcub 8mo ago
and with neuralink it would generate slides of the audience naked
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by nikcub 8mo ago
Funny I consider this valuation modest considering what the max extent of the investment thesis is here. SaaS and legal market caps have already contracted a multiple of the combined OpenAI + Anthropic valuations just based on the _threat_
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by nikcub 8mo ago
claude code is big enough now that it really needs a preview / beta release channel where features like this can be tested against a smaller audience before being pushed out. as a regular and long-term user, it's frequently jarrin
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by nikcub 8mo ago
> In what world is public opinion not universally against the cartels? It's hard to take you seriously after that. They definitely care about not ratting the cage with the US - they don't harm US federal agents, or take US host
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by nikcub 8mo ago
I use opus for coding and codex for reviews. I trigger the reviews in each work task with a review skill that calls out to codex[0] I don't need anything more complicated than that and it works fine - also run greptile[1] on PR's
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by nikcub 8mo ago
because more than one accesses it? :shrug:
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by nikcub 8mo ago
https://skills.sh
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by nikcub 8mo ago
it's actually .agents/ :)
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by nikcub 8mo ago
one thing you learn from being on the internet is that you're never going to satisfy everybody
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by nikcub 8mo ago
> I would run on 300 tasks and I'd run the test suite 5 or 10 times per day and average that score. assume this is because of model costs. anthropic could either throw some credits their way (would be worthwhile to dispel the 80 red
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by nikcub 9mo ago
I have an agent skill that is currently in the top 10 or so of the skills.sh directory - in terms of that audience, it's about 80% claude code. Also 75% darwin-arm64
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by nikcub 9mo ago
Clickhouse are on a bit of a roll. acquired peerdb and are doing a hosted postgres product[0] Acquired hyperdx[1] for their clickstack[2] observability platform and adding langfuse to a bunch of other llm related acquisitions and products T
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by nikcub 9mo ago
Resale value is starting to ward some people off. You can buy 1-2 year old used Teslas and BYD's in Australia for ~30% below retail. Meanwhile Toyota hybrids not just retain their value but there have been moments where used RAV4'
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by nikcub 9mo ago
Did that in Australia - the problem is even worse now. Disposable vapes were a market response to banning and restricting pod vapes (where you can keep the base and just swap out the pod). Nicotine policy and policing has been a clusterf -
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by nikcub 9mo ago
really find a negative in it ey - what type of donation and from who would be acceptable to you to fund the python foundation?
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by nikcub 9mo ago
> ie. Anthropic did not invest in image generation, Google did and Gemini has a shot at the market now. They're after the enterprise market - where office / workspace + app + directory integration, security, safety, compliance
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by nikcub 9mo ago
I've used cursor and claude code both daily[0] within a month of their releases - i'm learning something new on how to work with and apply the tools almost every day. I don't think it's a coincidence that some of the bes
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by nikcub 9mo ago
I delayed adopting conductor because I had my own worktree + pr wrappers around cc but I tried it over the holidays and wow. The combination of claude + codex + conductor + cc on the web and claude in github can be so insanely productive. I
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by nikcub 10mo ago
There have been multiple model generations now where Anthropic have proven that they're ahead of everyone with developing LLMs for coding - if anything the gap has broadened with Opus 4.5.
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by nikcub 10mo ago
s3 + cloudfront https://huggingface.co/blog/rearchitecting-uploads-and-downl...
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by nikcub 10mo ago
> But I don’t know anyone non-technical who has ditched ChatGPT as their default LLM. Google are giving away a year of Gemini Pro to students, which has seen a big shift. The FT reported today[0] that Gemini new app downloads are almost
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by nikcub 11mo ago
the trio library has an excellent tutorial that explains all of these concepts[0] even if you don't use trio and stick to the core python libs it's worth reading: https://trio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tut

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