alt Hacker NewsThis comment thread is a good learner for founders; look at how much anguish can be put to bed with just a little honest communication.
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As someone with a production application pinned on Opus 4.5, it is extremely difficult to tell apart what is code harness drama and what is a problem with the underlying model. It's all just meshed together now without any further details on what's affected.
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I agree.
I have flexibility to shift my core working hours (and what I do during N/A business hours). Knowing they're explicitly making it dumb because of load is important. It allows me to shuffle my work around and run heavy workloads late at night (plan during working hours then come click "yes" a few times in the evening).
This, plus the alchemical nature of these tools, seems to have made users pretty paranoid (I admit I am also guilty of paranoia). Maybe there's room for a Standard AI - we may change the prices based on market conditions, but we always give you exactly the model you ask for.
Hasn't Opus 4.5 been famously consistent while 4.6 was floating all over the place?
I am a neophyte regarding pros and cons of each model. I am learning the ropes, writing shell scripts, a tiny Mac app, things like that.
Reading about all the “rage switching”, isn’t it prudent to use a model broker like GH Copilot with your own harness or something like oh-my-pi? The frontier guys one up each other monthly, it’s really tiring. I get that large corps may have contracts in place, but for an in indie?
This is why we took business ethics & I know Dario had to too
How will your project/decision look on the front page of the Wall Street Journal? Well when a whistleblower reveals what everyone knows ($9b->$30b rev jump w/o servers growing on trees simultaneously = tough decisions), it's gonna be public anyway.
Good shout. Wish they were more transparent about these 3 things.
Or it could be a selection bias. The ground truth is not what HN herd mentality complains about, but the usage stats.
> This comment thread is a good learner for founders;
lmao, no they shouldn't.
Public sentiment, especially on reactionary mediums like social media should be taken with a huge grain of salt. I've seen overwhelming negativity for products/companies, only for it it completely dissapear, or be entirely wrong.
It's like that meme showing members of a steam group that are boycotting some CoD game, and you can see that a bunch of them were playing in-game of the very thing they forsook.
People are fickle, and their words cheap.
These threads are always full of superstitious nonsense. Had a bad week at the AIs? Someone at Anthropic must have nerfed the model!
The roulette wheel isn't rigged, sometimes you're just unlucky. Try another spin, maybe you'll do better. Or just write your own code.