Fable 5 is switching into Opus 4.8 for everything I throw at it. It is not worth it Opus 4.8 is good enough for the next couple months. For $17/mo for pro anthropic is still worth it for claude code etc.
It might make more sense for Shinyhunters to request a reoccuring charge to smooth out their revenue stream. Basically protection money as it was called in the good old days.
This is of course assuming that Instructure continues to be relevant, and that students still believe that college education holds economic or social value.
They want inconsistency so then you get to buy more usage. We are like 6mo-1y behind of just running these models (looking at you kimi) on a mac studio and not having to pay another company that think they are building the machine god. Anthropic and co have less of a moat than you think.
Exactly. Ubuntu LTS 24 and Intel integrated GPU + Wayland is zero problems even when running 4k120 and 150% scaled resolution. Chrome / vscode / zed / Rstudio / Youtube 4k60, it just works.
Edit this is running a 32" 2160p120 (4k) monitor alongside a 24" 1080p144 monitor.
What I've found Claude really helpful for is filling in the gaps. When you know vaguely how do to something like interpret data, but what other packages exist in xyz random technical domain? That is how I found for expample https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gggenes/vignettes/in... and Orthofinder when trying to teaching myself computational biology.
But sometimes even Claude gets stuck e.g. when I was trying to set up micropython via platformio running inside wsl2 on a windows 11 it got stuck setting up my ESP32 board.
Having taken a graduate-level CS course as a non-CS major, yes sw is about a decade behind what is actually being used. But the algorithms don't just magically go bad.
Previously Snowden leaked that the NSA and FBI accessed data directly from major U.S. internet companies. Now we have generative AI that can help identify targets much faster. IMO the government is amoral and interested in getting the best technology available, and integrating it into their systems. So the CEO etc can say one thing, and will do another.
Other nations including Israel and the PRC will also be working with their own implementations respectively because if they are not they know that everyone else is. So this is just basic game theory.
But the kicker is that 5y from now we will be able to run Codex 5.3x or Opus 4.6 on a $5000 mac studio, so nations states will want to immediately implement this kind of technology into their defense apparatus.
OpenAI and Anthropic don't have a moat. We will have actual open models like DeepSeek and Kimi with the same functionality as Opus 4.6 in Claude Code <6mo IMO. Competition is a good thing for the end-user.