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Carbon scoring below Opus 5.5 on coding highlights how magnificent Opus 5.5 is as a coding agent. With just a $20/month sub, it performs a ton of work at a very high quality.

For those of us stuck in an office building, at a desk, AI models have enabled handling multiple tasks as a same time as fast as we can think. I'm absolutely doing multiple times the work I was doing before and the time between tasks is basically zero. Same pay, though, and drastically increased productivity and sense of effort.

Right, I'd rather lose 15% of cost to waste/inefficiency than increase cost by 25% to put money in someone's pocket.

Alternate headline: "Profit-seeking organizations seek profit"

I've always been frustrated by the intense focus the modern economy has on advertising. If I am interested in a product, I would much rather discover it by searching. Having advertisements forced upon me at every turn is a massive waste of resources (time and attention) given only a fraction of a percent of the products have any relevance to my life. I block every form of advertising I can reasonably block. If a company raises the friction sufficiently, I'll find a way around it. I'm mostly an amoral participant in the economy. I pay for YouTube, Disney, etc. but if they make giving them money an unpleasant experience, I have no qualms employing a usenet subscription and *arr stack to dodge the whole thing.

> The crash occurred around 2:30 a.m. on Interstate 80 westbound at the Interstate 780 interchange, where the Tesla’s dash camera showed the 71-year-old Vallejo man entering the freeway from the right shoulder while the car was traveling at about 70 miles per hour, according to the California Highway Patrol.

> The Tesla braked and veered to the left as the man walked into the car’s path but was unable to avoid crashing the right front portion of the car into the pedestrian, CHP officials said.

FSD attempted to avoid the pedestrian who, for some reason, walked into 70MPH freeway traffic. FSD has fast reaction times to this sort of thing so there's a good chance the guy either came out from behind something or made a very unexpected motion into traffic. A dash cam video is necessary to draw any conclusions about fault or the reasonableness of FSD's response.

I appreciate how Anthropic keeps the Pro tier priced around OpenAI's Plus tier. The extra tier with OpenAI invites additional product subscription gates. Functionally, Anthropic will have a frontier model driving a personal agent available a 1/5 the cost of OpenAI. Astra may be a bigger model, but is there a meaningful qualitative difference between a personal agent running Opus 5.5 vs GPT6 Astra?

They're all equally contributing to mathematics?

This thread contains an enormous amount of negativity that just doesn't make sense here. OAI are giving developers and security researchers access to AI models so they can check their software for vulnerabilities. What's the problem? Sure, there's marketing around the success stories.

Some people are acting like this is only a problem because labs are releasing models that can find and exploit these vulnerabilities in the first place. This is a nonsense claim. Humans have been discovering vulnerabilities and privately weaponizing exploits just fine for decades. We are collectively raising the floor for security.

The difference is the open and self-hosted models are not far behind the closed models. You can't rugpull if you don't own the rug.

Self-hosted and/or open models are fast approaching (or have reached) the quality bar necessary to handle a great deal of software development work. The models needed to cause the OP's problem are becoming commoditized.

Using AI as a tool to investigate the mysteries of the universe is a huge win for humanity. Generating slop images to confuse people online is not. AI is tool, we like when tools are used for good.

This is not representative of what's actually going on, though. It's much more like an artisan carpenter who wants to build houses using bespoke hand-tools and precise joinery. That's great, and there are beautiful works of art created by those skills. But in the last year robots were developed that build homes exactly to spec. The robots work 24/7 and finish entire houses in a few days. That same skilled carpenter is being hired to monitor the robots and check over their work. There is, economically speaking, no place in the process for him to apply his craft. In the time he rips a single board, the robots build the wall. In the time he drives a handful of nails, the drywall is up and the paint is drying. He costs $200/hr, the robots cost $1/hr.

The carpenter is free to exercise his craft as he see's fit, but it's going to take place mostly in his personal workshop, for personal reasons, not to develop homes or run a business in the way he did before.

We can talk for ages about the quality of the robot's work, the maintainability of the resulting home, etc. But it's clear that, at this time, the market and ecosystem are embracing the robots whole-heartedly so those of us used to the old ways are having to rapidly adjust.

My dude, reading AI writing on a product page is not in the universe of being sexually assaulted.

I dislike one-shot LLM prose as much as the next person, but there's no chance this use case ever goes away. Writing is difficult and takes a long time. Using an LLM to write for you gets your message across with the least effort. It's here to stay. Our only hope is that the models simply start writing better.