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I got Opus to knock out an MCP server that implements subagents running in pi and tell Opus to send work to DeepSeek. Or I tell it to ask GPT-5.5 for critiques. It's manual but saves a lot of tokens.

Not magical thinking, not conspiratorial, just hypothetical.

Just because you can't afford to 10x all your customers' inference doesn't mean you can't afford to 10x your inhouse inference.

And 2.5x is from Anthropic's latest offering. But it costs you 6x normal API pricing.

I was thinking about inhouse model inference speeds at frontier labs like Anthropic and OpenAI after reading the "Claude built a C compiler" article.

Having higher inference speed would be an advantage, especially if you're trying to eat all the software and services.

Anthropic offering 2.5x makes me assume they have 5x or 10x themselves.

In the predicted nightmare future where everything happens via agents negotiating with agents, the side with the most compute, and the fastest compute, is going to steamroll everyone.

This is “why are we going to space when we haven’t cured cancer” reasoning.

I'm building my take on a low-touch task completion assistant designed to counter distraction and hyper-habituation.

It's starting off as a MacOS app because that's the machine I have. I didn't know Swift or SwiftUI when I started. I now know them somewhat, but the entire app has been vibe-coded. This has made it slow going. Very "1 step forward 2 steps back" until I switched from Claude Code to Codex and GPT-5.

I'm hoping to start an initial beta within the family in the next week or two, and then a wider round in January.

Piracy might not hurt sales, but 1000 publishers putting out their own copies of your book/game/song/poster/miniature once it hits the market will.

That's why I can accept copyright even thought it's not perfect.

Are these numbers full time employees only or total FTEs? Because it mentions Walmart: "Walmart’s full-time employees number remained relatively constant for the last 10 years".

Would revenue / person-hour show a different trend? Because there are a lot of part-time and contract workers out there.

Guanfacine.

I found it made me think and act sleep deprived even though I didn't feel it and also increased anxiety.

Guanfacine is also an alternative, and it's method of action also makes it anxiety reducing.

You might be how surprised how low a dose you need for an effect. 5-10ug of Ritalin noticeably reduces the "noise floor" for me.

How do you take 5-10ug? Dissolve 10mg in a litre of something. Get a 1ml dosing syringe. It has 0.1ml markings.

You could start there and increase it until you find what works. Also, if you take very little you can have a break on weekends and not suffer too much while remaining sensitive to lower dosages.

This is a standard book copyright notice:

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.

“Reproduced” and “electronic” are the relevant terms here.

I remember when gpt-3 came out and you could get it to spit out chunks of Harry Potter and I wondered why no-one was being sued.

The models are built on copyright infringement. Authors and publishers of any kind should be able to opt out of being included in training data and ideally opt-in should be the default.

And I hope one day someone trains a model without the use of works of fiction and we find a qualitative difference in their performance. Does a coding model really need to encode the customs, mores and concerns of Victorian era fictional characters to write a python function?

What size gemma are you using? Is the refactoring running independently or managed by you?

Gave it a try. After a few minutes I felt more like I was recognising the samples than I was recognising the notes. Not sure what you can do about that short of physically modeling an instrument.

This definition of AGEs is interesting (linked from the article, same site):

"Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) form when proteins and fats (lipids) in the body react with sugar (glucose) and become glycated and oxidized."

So, maybe it's not so much the Maillard reaction but that sweetened brioche bun used in your fancy hamburger.