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I am rooting for the Chinese models to win so they can save us from our capitalist overlords.

However, the quality of the open-source Chinese models is terrible. They game or fake their benchmarks because in real-world usage they suck.

200 Years Together by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Chinese models optimize for benchmarks and do poorly in real-world tasks

It wasn’t predictable that he would start a war.

He presented himself as the anti-war candidate and then betrayed his electorate.

The GPT-4 demo. Taking a screenshot of handwritten instructions to build a website, along with a drawing of what the website should look like. Then ChatGPT spit out a working prototype.

Also the live video mode demo later that year.

Then the agentic coding breakthrough in Nov/Dec 2025.

That’s not what that quote means. It means even if your portfolio is down you should keep buying.

“Bug”. More like a “bugdoor”

Terrible article. The real Satoshi is Nick Szabo and no one else is even close. Hal Finney, Wei Dai, etc. New York Times’ quality has really gone downhill.

Hello, have you heard of the Snowden revelations? What OP was referring to are called bugdoors.

Doublespeak

Then it needs to do context compacting, otherwise the results become garbage

Happening very often lately

Weapons of mass destruction, as usual.

Always have been.

I prefer using a VPS instead of an old laptop. 2 improvements I’d recommend:

1. Use tmux to keep sessions alive

2. Launch Claude Code using the —-dangerously-skip-permissions flag to avoid annoying pauses in execution

It’s like having a team of full-time interns running in the cloud building your software

There's always Stripe Atlas, which would give you a US-based business Stripe account, but for solopreneurs I'd recommend Paddle or Gumroad.

The chilling effects it will have on free speech should not be discounted, though. Despite the patchy enforcement and relatively small fines, people will self-censor rather than risk saying anything "illegal".

They actually do a bit further down the page: http://dotorgdoesntmeancredible.org/misguidedinstruction.htm...