jmartrican (u/jmartrican)

jmartrican commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete

benterix · a month ago

> it's not clear if the value actually exists here.

Having spent a couple of weeks on Claude Code recently, I arrived to the conclusion that the net value for me from agentic AI is actually negative.

I will give it another run in 6-8 months though.

jmartrican · a month ago

Maybe that is a skills issue.

jmartrican commented on Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users techcrunch.com/2025/07/17... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

edg5000 · 2 months ago

You are using the "auto-switch back to Sonnet" mode right? Try just selecting Opus without the auto-switch, probably you'll get more Opus and may not run out of it. Anthropic is just being careful because Opus eats compute and they don't want people getting disappointed. But for me it does not run out that quickly. Only when I asked it to work on a 50k+ source code file, which it had to ingest entirely in my case, is when I ran out.

jmartrican · 2 months ago

Oh wow I didnt even know about that. Yeah it auto switches. I'll change the config.

jmartrican commented on Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users techcrunch.com/2025/07/17... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

jmartrican · 2 months ago

I have the $100 plan and now quickly get downgraded to Sonnet. But so far have not hit any other limits. I use it more on the weekends over several hours, so lets see what this weekend has in store.

I suspected that something like this might happen, where the demand will outstrip the supply and squeeze small players out. I still think demand is in its infancy and that many of us will be forced to pay a lot more. Unless of course there are breakthroughs. At work I recently switched to non-reasoning models because I find I get more work done and the quality is good enough. The queue to use Sonnet 3.7 and 4.0 is too long. Maybe the tools will improve reduce token count, e.g. a token reducing step (and maybe this already exists).

jmartrican commented on A search engine by and for the federal government search.gov/... · Posted by u/pajtai

benced · a year ago

The new tech stuff the government has been putting out is legitimately fantastic. login.gov is probably my favorite sign-in experience, maybe slightly behind Google's (and considerably ahead of Apple or Microsoft's).

jmartrican · a year ago

reminds me of Snow Crash, where the US federal government is reduced to a software entity.

jmartrican commented on The rarest book in American literature: Poe's Tamerlane lithub.com/in-search-of-t... · Posted by u/Jun8

jmartrican · a year ago

Is the book any good? Like is the story/poems in it worth reading? Just asking cause I might want to read it if its good.

jmartrican commented on Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens? blog.ploetzli.ch/2024/sho... · Posted by u/pantalaimon

jmartrican · a year ago

I worked in a backend team that introduced JWT, before I got there. The problem we had with JWT was that the data was stale. Even if it wasn't stale, it needed to be treated as stale because every service wanted the up to date data, even within 1 sec that data is old. The user could have changed something in their account from the time that the JWT was issued. I removed JWT and went back to the old UUIDs as tokens.

jmartrican commented on React has grown beyond its original promise and it's causing more harm than good md.jtmn.dev/blog/💻+Progr... · Posted by u/OccamsMirror

jmartrican · 2 years ago

This risk with using the simple tech to start out is that you are one feature request away from being under engineered and will have to rebuild the whole thing.

jmartrican commented on TSMC to build second Japan chip factory finance.yahoo.com/news/ts... · Posted by u/ytch

trashtester · 2 years ago

We may be getting close to the limit for 2D density, but have just barely started moving in the 3rd dimension.

Chips are also quite small, limited partly by the ability to cool them once they enter a computer and partly because a single defect often means the whole chip must be discarded (which means large chips generatel lower yields).

I suspect we will see much more development in all of these directions, with individual chips extending deeper into 3d and getting improved tolerance to defects allowing them to get larger, as well as with chiplet, die-2-die, stacking and similar methods of combining chips in a package continuing to move forward at a rapid pace.

I don't think we should expect foundry development to stagnate in the near future. If anything, as AI starts to be used in developing new chips, it may well accelerate.

jmartrican · 2 years ago

The funny thing about the 3D chips is that if extrapolated far out, we end up with cubes. Definitely sci-fi territory. And maybe questions from kids like "but if they are shaped like cubes, why are they called chips?".

jmartrican commented on TSMC to build second Japan chip factory finance.yahoo.com/news/ts... · Posted by u/ytch

CitizenKane · 2 years ago

Currently TSMC has the only leading edge chip fabrications plants (fabs) on the planet and they're all located in Taiwan. They account for all new chips for all new Apple products, all new AMD products, most new Nvidia products, etc. Most companies design the the chips, but then outsource the manufacturing of them to TSMC as building a fab has astronomical upfront costs.

TSMC has acquired a lead in this area through a number of different methods. One of the main things is that they focus deeply on manufacturing. Another is that they work 24 hours a day in R&D, running 3 shifts so they basically have the lights on all the time. And as mentioned above, the upfront costs are incredibly high with a fab costing on the order of 20+ billion dollars to construct.

Intel is attempting to catch up, but it will likely be another 3 to 5 years before they are able to do so. Honestly just having R&D up and going all the time is probably a huge advantage for TSMC and probably a big reason behind their success. Regardless, suffice to say basically all cutting edge product shipments would cease in a matter of months if TSMC fabs were destroyed.

jmartrican · 2 years ago

> Currently TSMC has the only leading edge chip fabrications plants (fabs) on the planet and they're all located in Taiwan.

What about Samsung? I thought they also made leading edge.