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1mo ago
> why some G employees were vague posting about it They were just trolling.
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1mo ago
> So I can only assume codebases became more bloated, websites became more heavy on resources. If we assume this is true, it at least meant if you didn't upgrade you'd get even worse performance.
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1mo ago
Option 4: the claimed capacity is not true. Real world usage hasn’t reached anywhere close to it.
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2mo ago
Possibly next Longcat by Meituan too.
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2mo ago
> got what seemed to me like a neutral, well-balanced reply Ask if Taiwan is a country instead :)
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2mo ago
> Model is suspiciously fast > aren't representative of models from the big Chinese labs There were reports that China has let Nvidia's chips through, so this might be it. Testing both the chip and infrastructure.
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2mo ago
GLM 5.3 is out and does even better in this area, so…
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2mo ago
> The bun rewrite is looked to as proof that this sort of full-throttle vibecoding is the future of software development To who? You? > To prove that, a proper release is needed For who? Who is trying to prove what? > It's Jar
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2mo ago
It's 1/2 baked in everything it tries to do. You need a "separate" tool called npm to install packages. It's dead slow so they added corepack. Another extra tool. Then you use it to install yarn or pnpm. Another ext
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2mo ago
> The article answers this. hint: they're not shipping. They're shipping though. Claude Code and many others use it. There's just not been a "public" release.
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2mo ago
It feels worse but is it actually worse? Opus has always made mistakes.
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2mo ago
> There’s an assumption that you can spin up the infra and acquire customers within that margin Only Nvidia and approved friends can at the moment. Nvidia can even backstop your loan required.
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2mo ago
> Anthropic's Project Glasswing is supposed to find them quite a while ago? Someone still has to run it. The analysis and fix could be someone's machine but not committed / published.
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2mo ago
> Apple will release M7 MacBook Pros / Mac Minis next year The latest on Apple is TSMC is stuck on the next iPhone due to lack of RAM. Good luck getting any Macs. Memory shortage is getting worse.
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2mo ago
> implies no significant Gemini Flash developments until the next year. Gemini 4 is apparently just around the corner so unless there's a 3 month delay... there's at least a new Flash update.
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2mo ago
> For Google, this is still gemini-3.1-pro-preview, right? Flash is better than Pro for now.
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2mo ago
> over DS V4 Flash/Pro? 13-26x cheaper with comparable intelligence, and available across many different inference providers. That's why DS4 already had a huge price hike announcement.
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2mo ago
I'd argue ds4-flash is closer to terra than luna. Hence different price class.
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2mo ago
> haven’t actually used Fable or even Opus 5 yet I've used plenty of Opus and Fable. Still do. > Sol is laughable by comparison Not really, it depends. Sol is better and useful in some areas. Definitely not all. Fable is gimped j
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2mo ago
> If I was Chinese, I'd probably trust Grok more than a local AI company. Nah. There are more established companies (e.g. Tencent, Alibaba, etc) and academia (e.g. Moonshot, Zai, etc) involved than in the US (comparatively). Also th
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2mo ago
> It's just an obvious fact. What's the fact? Facts require proof, right? Where is in it? > China is clearly the US' main adversary. This? It's clearly documented Trump and friends randomly made that policy up in t
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2mo ago
> That's not a conspiracy, that's just how the CCP sees it (ask Jack Ma) That is a conspiracy. Do you even know what happened to Jack Ma? From what you're saying you don't. Also that was MANY years ago. The Shanghai s
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2mo ago
> It's the near-concurrent release of the same jump in capability that I find suspicious; not the fact that labs can catch up eventually. What are suspicious of? If the timing is similar maybe just everyone already are of similar ca
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2mo ago
> It's crazy that I'd literally trust a Chinese AI company with my data It's crazy how much Chinese = bad the media or US companies have washed into you. Why lump it together? Like any place and any company there are good
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2mo ago
> AI tends to write less sloppy code than bad devs, and test/validate it more rigorously I've often had it test and benchmark against the wrong things = no test. It also writes over-engineered code. So yes sort, maybe.
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2mo ago
> but I’ve never worked anywhere (and I’ve worked at a lot of places over 20 years) that actually did it like that in practice I've seen a twist - not juniors but just offshore engineers.
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2mo ago
IPO delayed? Options expiring?
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2mo ago
> to satisfy demand from a small number of customers who may not be able to pay them Because a lot of isn't real demand, e.g. given away for free or very very cheap.
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> Comments like this one remind me of all the people saying "China can't invent things, they can only copy the US" 20 years ago. We still get these comments. Now about AI. China can only distill and are still years behind.
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2mo ago
> And remember the Apple Neo is running an iPhone CPU that is much slower than the M series. We really need to get over generalization like "phone CPU". Times have changed. Phone or not really isn't the focus. Per core the
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