Canceling my OpenAI "PRO" subscription.
This model solved a complex networking issue that O3 PRO couldn't.
And it did it more quickly. Every O3 prompt took ~3-5mins to answer!!
For F R E E !!
Readit Newscanada_dry commented on GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties z.ai/blog/glm-4.5... · Posted by u/GaggiX
You can tell how it’s intentional with both OpenAI and Anthropic by how they’re intentionally made opaque. I cant see a nice little bar with how much I’ve used versus have left on the given rate limits so it’s pressuring users to hoard. Because it prevents them from budgeting it out and saying “okay I’ve used 1/3 of my quota and it’s Wednesday, I can use more faster.”
OpenAI's "PRO" subscription is really a waste of money IMHO for this and other reasons.
Decided to give PRO a try when I kept getting terrible results from the $20 option.
So far it's perhaps 20% improved in complex code generation.
It still has the extremely annoying ~350 line limit in its output.
It still IGNORES EXPLICIT CONTINUOUS INSTRUCTIONS eg: do not remove existing comments.
The opaque overriding rules that - despite it begging forgiveness when it ignores instructions - are extremely frustrating!!
Just some feedback to share some problems I personally think you’re going to have and why I suspect you’ll face a healthy amount of skepticism. There is a lack of history of development that ends with a major initial commit of unknown origin, a lack of any public information, a company that does not appear (publicly) to exist, and a product that is going to solve every need that can be imagined by packing it with buzzwords and little to no evidence of security. When faced with those things, my next step would be to consider how much is original versus built on underlying technologies I know and trust; information that is lacking.
If you’re launching a business, I would suggest making sure the business looks legitimate; if it’s a pet project, trying to make yourself sound like a big business and then not having the footprint gives off “fake”/scam/caution vibes. If you’re a solo dev, drop all the fake business stuff and get rid of the buzz words and “it can do everything” marketing and focus on what it excels at as an open source project.
People are going to be skeptical (rightfully) that a solo dev/no name company is going to suddenly drop a product that rivals those of massive companies. Either massive shortcuts were taken, or there is a high chance that it will be insecure, which is not something you want from a VPN or any of the other things it claims to do. If you’ve built on existing secure technologies, you should emphasizing them because known names that have a security history are going to build a lot more trust than a no-name product.
If a software is hard to explain the purpose of to an average person in a single sentence, you have an uphill battle. Listing more features isn’t usually going to be the answer, regardless of how accurate you’re attempting to be. “It’s a VPN! and a PaaS! and a ZTNA! And an API Gateway! and AI!” It screams “please download me” rather than “I’m here to solve a problem“, which is why I wouldn’t even bother to try it; the opposite of what any project is going for.
My intention isn’t to just be critical, but rather to point out things that are likely harming your efforts.
> solo dev/no name company is going to suddenly drop a product
A developer/company with an opaque background that you're to trust to give access to backend systems using passwordless embedded SSH (no keys needed!).
That's a big NOPE.
(Also, even the answers OP has provided really give an AI bot vibe)
canada_dry commented on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools github.com/asgeirtj/syste... · Posted by u/mike210
For me it highlights the issue of how easily nefarious/misleading information will be able to be injected into responses to suit the AI service provider's position (as desired/purchased/dictated by some 3rd party) in the future.
It may respond 99.99% of the time without any influence, but you will have no idea when it isn't.
canada_dry commented on Show HN: Aqua Voice 2 – Fast Voice Input for Mac and Windows withaqua.com... · Posted by u/the_king
This looks like it'll slurp up all your data and upload it into a cloud. Thanks, no. I want privacy, offline mode and source code for something as crucial to system security as an input method.
"we also collect and process your voice inputs [..] We leverage this data for improvements and development [..] Sharing of your information [..] service providers [..] OpenAI" https://withaqua.com/privacy
First thing I looked for and read: the FAQ.
No mention of privacy (or on prem) - so assumed it's 100% cloud.
Non-starter for me. Accuracy is important, but privacy is more so.
Hopefully a service with these capabilities will be available where the first step has the user complete a brief training session, sends that to the cloud to tailor the recognition parameters for their voice and mannerisms... then loads that locally.
I would hazard to guess that Google classroom (starting at Kindergarten and continuing through post secondary) software is mostly installed via next-next-finish (i.e. whatever the defaults set by Google are). I'd also assume that these defaults are set to very minimal privacy protection for students.
Having this digital record entrusted to any company that is not under strong privacy controls should be frightening to parents.
School administrators figure the low-cost low-barrier-to-entry is well worth the long term privacy risk to children.
* Fortunately my children were out of school when this became common place - so kindly correct me if I'm mistaken.
canada_dry commented on OpenAI completes deal that values company at $157B nytimes.com/2024/10/02/te... · Posted by u/gmaster1440
I hope better competition appear before the enshittification begins.
As far as I understand it they're actually underwater on their API and even $20/month pricing, so we'll either see prices aggressively increase and or additional revenue streams like ads or product placement in results.
We've witnessed that every time a company's valuation is impossibly high: They do anything they can to improve outlook in an attempt to meet it. We're currently in the equivalent of Netflix's golden era where the service was great, and they could do no wrong.
Personally I'll happily use it as long as I came, but I know it is a matter of "when" not "if" it all starts to go downhill.
> the enshittification
I've assumed that when AI becomes much more mainstream we'll see multiple levels of services.
The cheapest (free or cash strapped services) will implement several (hidden/opaque) ways to reduce the cost of answering a query by limiting the depth and breadth of its analysis.
Not knowing any better you likely won't realize that a much more complete, thoroughly considered answer was even available.
canada_dry commented on AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature 9to5mac.com/2024/09/09/ai... · Posted by u/janandonly
I do not own airpods so don't know about quality. But if a hardware company as great as Apple can build a hearing aid earpiece there are some companies that should be very worried.
It's a huge industry.
> It's a huge industry.
It's a hugely under innovative, insular and overpriced industry that has been begging for disruption for decades.
Now that there's critical mass in an aging population, companies like Apple that have the clout and cash to ignore the threats of patent infringement can finally apply some real technical innovation to the problem.
canada_dry commented on Phind-405B and faster, high quality AI answers for everyone phind.com/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/rushingcreek
Phind continues to be my favorite AI-enhanced search engine. They do a really nice job giving answers to technical questions with links to references where I can verify the answer or learn more detail.
Some recent examples from my history:
what video formats does mastodon support? https://www.phind.com/search?cache=jpa8gv7lv54orvpu2c7j1b5j
compare xfs and ext4fs https://www.phind.com/search?cache=h9rmhe6ddav1bnb2odtchdb1
on an apple ][ how do you access the no slot clock? https://www.phind.com/search?cache=w4cc1saw6nsqxyige7g3wple
The answers aren't perfect. But they are a good gloss and then the links to web sources are terrific. ChatGPT and Claude aren't good at that. Bing CoPilot sort of is but I don't like it as much.
Phind was my go-to for getting more relevant and up-to-date information that could be found on the internet... but that stopped about 3+ months ago.
Many times the answers seemed to be getting more and more incomplete or incorrect as time went on (to a variety of questions over a period of months). Even worse it would say it couldn't find the answer, yet the answer was among the sites noted as reference!
I've ended up mostly resorting to Bing and gpt 4o. Frankly, I'm hesitant to waste time trying this new version.
Their PRO models were not (IMHO) worth 10X that of PLUS!
Not even close.
Especially when new competitors (eg. z.ai) are offering very compelling competition.