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Comment · 2 days ago
I just had a look, and they don't. It's really just a temporary fork of the conversation, so it's fully cached. But it does run every 30 seconds, so that is very bad especially if it's a subagent that's at 800k tokens.

And I don't really get the point of this feature, I've always found it super annoying that the main agent creates a subagent with the clear description of "Fix tile cache" for example, and then after a while it turns into something generic like "Running browser tests"

Comment · 2 days ago
> the module ships as precompiled Bun bytecode, so editing its JS text inside the binary changes nothing

It's actually not super difficult to "decompile" it, tweak some stuff, and recompile. I use this method to change some ridiculous hardcoded instructions in the system prompt.

Comment · 2 days ago
It's Google. They can't help themselves. This is what they do.
Comment · 4 days ago
> while dismissing the black hole that is training

True, but the point the "subsidized!" people are convinced of is that for each generated token Anthropic is losing money, when it's exactly the other way around.

Comment · 4 days ago
Yes, it's quite easy to disable.

Just go to /config, then search for "Feedback" and then you can disable the "Claude-drafted feedback"

I would suggest you do this, because it does use your tokens to generate this feedback.

Comment · 4 days ago
I really hate how this feedback feature is enabled automatically AND that it is using YOUR tokens to generate it.
Comment · 5 days ago
I wonder how the "It's all heavily subsidized!" people are going to spin this.
Comment · 11 days ago
Maybe at a certain point their capacity is sufficiently being used up by the "full cost" API usage, and offering cheaper package deals would just cut into their profit because they can't get more inference?
Comment · 11 days ago
I've shared a sub with my husband for a long time, and we never ran into trouble.

Then I shared a sub with 3 people in total and we were detected within a few days.

I don't know what metrics they use, because I use my sub on a handful of servers and different IPs. But I'm guessing there's some kind of fingerprinting going on, where they can actually determine that prompts are being sent by different people

Comment · 11 days ago
> The major providers are unprofitable after you add in the training and research costs and other overheads

The very short lives of all these models also factor in.

I think the funny thing is the more inference, the more tokens a specific version of a model spits out, actually does make it more profitable.

But somehow a lot of people truly think that each token generated increases the cost of OpenAI/Anthropic/... and shout bloody murder about "subsidies"

And I'm certain there are people out there that actually think the API prices of OpenAI and Anthropic somehow equal their electricity costs.

Comment · 12 days ago
Technically you can still run Claude-Code through proxies though, even with the subscription.

Right now I run my Claude-Code sessions through a very simple mitmproxy, logging everything that goes in & out. It's very low level, sure, but it works.

Comment · 15 days ago
> So the Belgians enshittified speculaas to create speculoos

Yes and no. This "Speculoos is actually cheap Speculaas" isn't completely true. That's what people like to say today, but the "Speculoos" name has been around much longer than Lotus bakeries. It's just a dialect thing and there is no reason. Some people called it "Speculaas", some people called it "Speculoos", and _then_ a cheaper variant got made and they choose the "Speculoos" term for it.

It all just sounds really fitting because the "-loos" suffix in Dutch means "without".

Comment · 17 days ago
I've been decompiling a bunch of games for the past year. It's insane what it can do, and honestly even Opus 4.5 was already really good at this.

I do wonder what this means for open-source versions of games, as in: could companies threaten with legal actions more easily now?

Comment · 18 days ago
Really? Reminds me of Gemini 3. It took so long before being able to get a subscription for it, and then I would run out of their equivalent of the 5-hour usage window in a heartbeat.
Comment · 18 days ago
Lol

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