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Comment · 5 days ago
Can someone provide some insight into what use cases this is good for? Marketing material?
Comment · 11 days ago
Because clearly when you hack and rootkit a box, the first thing you do is announce it to the public
Comment · 12 days ago
why so few upvotes? i'm guessing everyone is busy firefighting...
Comment · 1 month ago
what. I use Astra xhigh, sometimes max, never ran out of tokens on the 100$ thing. I'm using pi though which is by definition harder better faster stronger than claude code/codex.
Comment · 1 month ago
pi+astra for me. Does absolute wonders. When openai starts to squeeze it's chinese models all the way
Comment · 1 month ago
Come on, the trivializations start to sound quite unfounded now. Yes, a human was needed, but no, it wasn't a "collaboration"
Comment · 1 month ago
It would have been a case of isolating exactly what functionality is needed and wiring that up with the actual requests. Not like a full pass-through proxy. This is what we've been doing in our company as well
Comment · 1 month ago
To be fair, this is a classic prisoner's dilemma. If the others don't play along then there is no benefit at all, it's all negative for Anthropic.
Comment · 1 month ago
No that's not what they did, they exposed jfrog raw. It would have been so extremely simple to gate services they need the llm to access... I mean, jfrog was not written with this kind of threat model in mind, and neither were a lot of other tools
Comment · 1 month ago
What do you use as a European CDN atm?
Comment · 2 months ago
It does happen, but it's very very rare. I met maybe 2 people in my career I could do this with.
Comment · 3 months ago
I understand. So don't use them. There are plenty of OS alternatives
Comment · 3 months ago
What are you talking about. You think service providers can backdoor aes-gcm? There will always be technology that they cannot get around. The only way to backdoor is to explicitly change the encryption.
Comment · 3 months ago
There are ways to do it correctly. You just end up spending a lot of time conceptualizing and refining abstractions.

To me the issue is more that conceptualizing requires a certain state of mind. Before llms it was 10% hard thinking 90% implementing. Implementation was actually sort of a reward, it felt so good just being in the zone and fleshing out ideas.

Post llms I find myself walking up and down quite a lot, only doing the thinking. Now it's more like 40% thinking 60% reviewing plans/code. I haven't experienced flow state since. The thinking is fun but exhausting, the reviewing is just kind of annoying, especially as llms get into these weird failure modes. Before I could look at a bad piece of code and instantly tell what the author was thinking and why the thing doesn't work. Now I need to be a lot more careful because there is little code smell, but a lot of badly chosen abstractions.

Just exhausting...

Comment · 4 months ago
They will most certainly cut subscription access, same as Anthropic. It is inevitable that they will go down the same lockin+squeeze route. I unsubscribed from Claude a couple of weeks ago, on gpt now. However, Openai will have to make a similar move.

At that point however open weight model providers will start to shine. All eyes on China.

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