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> It is unlikely this kind of agentic workflow will ever get cheaper

This seems like a very '500kB is all you'll ever need' thing to say. This exact scenario has seen a precipitous decline in cost and increase in reliability over the past year.

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What questions? When I go into auto mode, it doesn't come back until it accidentally/intentionally tries to slip the guardrails, or completes the task. My prompt will generally include information on what it's allowed to do to accomplish the task, where to test, etc. Simple, but effective.

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As someone who loved Supreme Commander, I really wanted to like BAR, but I found it felt like death by a thousand cuts. I last played more than a year ago, so things might be different, but the QoL felt really lacking.

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If a teenager on your street said he was going to spend $1,000 to customize his Honda Civic for his needs, you'd believe him. If he says he's going to build a brand new car, better than a Honda civic, for $10,000, you'd laugh and say good luck.

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OpenAI and Anthropic don't make small models. Google happens to already have a billion devices that would benefit from small models, so they made one. Google basically gets 1 billion per year for free*.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Predictable for a year or two, yes. I know how much I'll be paying a decade from now, exempting property tax and insurance fluctuations.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I was in middle school in 2007

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Beyond the financials, the psychological impact of both being able to make greater-than-superficial changes, and having extremely predictable payments for years without worrying about substantial rent increases, is substantial.

I redid/improved the bathroom to exactly what I wanted. I renovated the kitchen. I added paneling to the walls. I added a few outlets to rooms that needed more. I wouldn't do these things in an apartment, because rent could go up any year and exploit me for liking my home. Property value has gone up by 50% in the years since I bought.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Content quality and content monetization are very different. The EU had exceptionally low monetization and brand recognition.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I bought an X4 back in November, and bought an X3 in March, after realizing the X4 was too big to fit on the back of a regular iPhone.

I absolutely love this thing. It's great because of its limited scope and featureset. It just sticks to the back of my phone, ready for whenever, and the battery is good enough that I don't have to worry too much about the dumb connector. I bought a USB C to pogo adapter that seems to work fine for charging it, and keep that in my travel pack.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Seconding this. I installed a new dictionary to it fairly easily

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I've seen a lot of people hop into prompting with no trouble, and people who have been using it for years that get bad results. Ultimately, prompting skill is just downstream of technical communication skill. It's probably a good way to practice, if you pay close attention to what you forgot to specify, and what the model got wrong.

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

This has a very different feel than similar pages for other companies. Hardware is still supported if it's within age, most of the software features are just elsewhere and renamed, and some of it is just previous generations of products they currently sell?

Usually these pages convey how capricious the parent is, but this just feels like an arbitrary accounting of things Apple has moved or updated, with a few of them not having replacements.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

I think I'd largely disagree with your recommendation, unless they specifically wanted to get into 3D printing (the hobby) rather than 3D Printing (the tool). I got my printer wanting to make things, and didn't enjoy the tinkering with my mk3 at all. It was a great printer for the time! But I swapped to a P2S and never looked back. I hear Prusa is competitive these days, though not perhaps in price at the low end.

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

Decent sentiment and analogy, but writing this with AI with hackneyed examples undercuts the point

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

This product is explicitly not being released for usage

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vor 3 Monatendiscuss

The only real secret sauce is the training methods and datasets used for refining harness usage. Claude Code is a lot better than gemini-cli/open-code/etc because Claude is specifically trained on how to run in that environment. It's been rlhf'd to use the provided tools correctly, and know the framework in which it operates, instead of relying solely on context.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

My org gave us 5 months to transition our personal usage away from Anthropic products. Presumably that's paused now, though they haven't made an announcement. I work with medicare/medicaid, and the supply chain risk was directly cited in the initial decision.

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

That's been the standard for a decade. $200 for a 4k 55" TV is not realistic without a secondary profit source

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vor 4 Monatendiscuss

I don't even have any special handling set and haven't had any Tahoe prompts beyond maybe the first one. I often forget that I'm not on the latest anymore.

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