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Regardless of whether I agree or not, that's rather level headed. I appreciate the transparent response.

Not to my knowledge :)

> You'd essentially need to write a single test suite that works for both projects in each pair to compare fairly.

That's pretty much what we did. We start with a repository, and

- (vibeclean pipeline) make changes to clean analyzer issues (some of them involve moving big code chunks around to reduce cognitive complexity), and tweak the existing test sets when needed.

- (slopify pipeline) inverse, add analyzer issues and increase complexity, add dead code etc.

In both cases, we ensure that the test coverage remains the same, and the tests are passing, before we start our experiments.

To be sure, we had hidden tests that validate whether agent implemented the task appropriately. And this is something we paid a lot of attention to (pass rate, in our paper.)

What we didn't do (stupid oversight on my part) was to ensure that there are no regressions in the remaining tests in the repo (unrelated to the current task). In practice, when using Sonnet 4.6 IRL, I don't see a lot of regressions because often the agent runs the test before calling it done. But it could have gone either way. We don't know.

Prohibitively expensive! A 1.5h train ride from paris can set me back more than 100EUR some times.

If you think HN crowd is Anti AI, try to talk to a random person on the street. HN crowd is generally more measured on the topic. Current AI is not the perfect solution, and comes with many many soci economic problems and general HN statement reflects that alongside the mindblowing strides made

I guess at some level it is a matter of incentives. In their city, we have electricity 20-22 hours per day (used to be 12-18 when i was growing up) and we can’t rely on the state to provide us electricity consistently.

But also, due to infrastructure. Everyone who could afford it has had a battery and inverter in our homes since forever. Hooking up some solar panels to it is relatively straightforward.

I think there are also some state sponsored subsidies involved although I couldn’t tell you how much.

My 65yo parents installed Solar panels on the roof of their house in a Tier 2 city in the poor parts of India. So did pretty much most of their neighbours.

So i would have to disagree. We are significantly far ahead from the initial “idea”.

As a smoker who transitioned to vaping, I see immense health benefits.

My home country (India), and others (Singapore, others?) have outright banned all electronic cigarettes which is a regulation I hate. I acknowledge that vapes reduce barriers to entry to kids. This is partly solvable in countries with strong governance.

But disposables? Ban that shit

I grow tired of the might makes right world we inhabit again. If you are not a citizen of a hegemon, or their allies, all the best envisioning a stable environment to thrive for your children when you know that the price of sovereignty and nationalised natural resources is a US invasion.

You're not wrong. But, I recently did the mistake of upgrading my iPad to version 26 (the liquid glass version). I had a relatively smooth experience on my 6 year old tablet which now runs painfully slowly. Even scrolling through different parts of home-screen lags.

My point being, with time performance might go up. But instead of that making my device faster/long-lasting, developers use that extra performance to cram in more stuff, at the end of which I come out only slightly better if not worse (as is in my case)

Love most of the work you folks are doing, and I am a paying Kagi customer for over a year now.

That said, it leaves a salty taste in the mouth to see

> Orion is part of the broader Kagi ecosystem

and

> Supporters (via subscription or lifetime purchase) unlock a set of Orion+ perks

I would imagine that paying for Kagi is also a vector for having the paywalled features of your browser.

Based on my limited understanding, making a rendering engine (what mozilla folks are doing) and making a browser using existing rendering engines (what firefox is, what probably-but-im-not-really-sure Orion is) are different in terms of complexity by orders of magnitude.