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🥇 Which model did it best? "When California gas prices hit $10."
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had to try something with jev so i tried what you'd expect from me: graph extraction - score every word with semantic significance (1-5) - also tag relevant words with ID - unique list of high scoring words - graph of high scoring words
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MUST READ paper from Google Research. Interesting bits... 1. Agents get better at tasks by keeping a wiki of everything they've learned. 2. Small model with skills beats one 3x its size without them. 3. Delete the wiki and the gains go away.
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WTF is going on??? @X Seems like a lot people are getting these notification rn
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Heads up: My X accounts are under attack: lots of password reset requests.
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Some cursed procedual animation that has been cooking for a few days. Fully proc gen animation with rigs, not bad for a day or so. It was an exploration into how procedual animation would work in threejs. Just love ragdolls. Ofc #threejs
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I love that everyone is rediscovering graph engineering at the same time.
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Great article from @googledevs on Stateless MCP. Sessions were a big bottleneck, which is way x402 has chosen the stateless route. Maintaining session state across distributed systems introduces coordination overhead that scales linearly with concurrency. Payment authorization is per-request state. A protocol that needs a session has bound settlement to connection lifetime. TLDR, the best way to do a 402 payment protocol is not with sessions. developers.googleblog.com/sc…
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A story from a startup where the CTO recently resigned, despite having 2% of common shares: "My CEO was nontechnical, and was both moving too slow and too fast with AI. Too slow as in: did not take the time to understand what our customers wanted. We built a TON of stuff, it confused then, they churned, growth stalled, word-of-mouth growth was gone. Too fast as in: deprioritizied core systems reliablity in favor of shipping AI work to prod (which did not have any commercial potential)"
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I mean, if your model isn’t even good enough to be banned by the U.S. government, are you even worth your valuation? To no one in particular.
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I'm a major hypocrite 2 days after saying "loops are overhyped and inappropriate for 99% of people" I'm eating my words EVERYONE should be build AI coding loops. Fable 5 completely changed my mind After one-shotting a ridiculously large, full stack implementation I'm convinced we can set this model off to work autonomously on full applications for hours at a time I'm coming out with a full beginner friendly loop guide soon that ANYONE can use to build autonomous AI building systems. In the meantime I'd highly recommend taking these steps: 1. Set Fable 5 to high thinking 2. Create a skill called /spec 3. Have it make this skill ask you enough questions about the feature you want to build until it properly understands the feature in detail. 4. Have it save this spec to some sort of 2nd brain. I'm using Linear 5. Make skills for /build and /review 6. Have these skills do what they're named based on the specs that got created I'll put out a full guide shortly that covers all of this in detail. It will be the most in depth, beginner friendly loop guide on the internet. No vague posting. Loops are in and they're clearly the future
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Fable for degenerates confirmed.
anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains
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AI subscriptions are dead Claude Fable 5 will only be on the Anthropic subscription until June 22nd. After that, you will need to pay for usage per token This will be the start of a much larger trend Frontier models will no longer be included in subs You’ll pay a fee and it will only get you access to older, much cheaper models If you want access to that dank AI sour diesel, you’re going to need to pay for every token you use. No more subsidies And it make sense. The subsidies were just a Ponzi scheme For those that don’t know, when you pay $200 a month for an AI sub, you get thousands of dollars of tokens These AI companies actively lose tremendous amounts of money because of these subscriptions. GDPs of most countries every year are lost on your $200 Claude Max sub The investor money is running dry. IPOs are coming because of this. And with IPOs need to come profitability The golden age of paying $200 a month and being able to code on 40 Claude Code instances and getting a usage reset every 5 minutes are about to die The party couldn’t continue ever. You can’t just leverage the entire global economy for years and expect nothing to break. Now it’s time to pay up Means a few things: 1. Time to be responsible when it comes to which models you use. You don’t need Fable 5 for GPT 5.5 Xhigh for everything. Build the skill of knowing when to use cheap models 2. Local LLMS/hardware will come even more in demand. I’m currently running GLM on my Mac Studio. It’s great. Is it Fable? No. But it gets the job done for free on simple tasks. Learn about local LLMs 3. This is the beginning of the wealth gap expansion. Those that can afford to spend $10,000 a month on Fable 5 will build incredible products that eat up more and more of the economy. Those that can’t afford Fable 5 will have an insane disadvantage 4. The government will need to step in eventually. There will be too much civil unrest. I hope the answer isn’t free money. That won’t do anything. I hope the answer is education/access to AI resources for ALL. Universal Basic Opportunity 5. You need to seriously reconsider where your money goes every month. If you are complaining about AI prices and in the back of your mind you know your skill set is becoming quickly irrelevant, all while spending money every month on Netflix, Xbox Live, Paramount +, drugs, DoorDash, Uber, and other things that bring nothing positive to your life, you are simply doing it wrong. AI is an investment in yourself. It’s an investment in your relevance to the global economy. You need to make sure you make that investment The pieces on the board are quickly moving around. The rules are changing. The battlefield is shifting. If you’re not strategizing accordingly, you’re cooked.
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In less than 5 years SV will be dead, all the VC and dev experience will move to NYC. You know why.
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Most companies: "Help us onboard our 3,000 employees to Claude Code/Codex" Some companies: "Help us build our first end-to-end agent outside of the engineering org" Few companies: "Help us finetune a Chinese/open-source model so we can lower our agent cost by 50%"
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Software is over.
Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.
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Perfectly timed @Reddit, making me hate trying to read reddit just a little bit more. (see bottom of image)
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Unified 48GB or bust.
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Believe it or not, Hermes agent can fix this.
Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file
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Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file
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