> That may suit Anthropic as private models can't be distilled

They can be distilled internally… expect great things from Sonnet 4.8

We already have "Opus" 4.7 from the same base

Why not the Pacific Ocean

In a master’s, you learn a lot about a little

In a PhD, you learn everything about nothing

Poor comment. Is it true on hackernews you get people who learned nothing about anything?

Wait till Codex doubles prices/halves quotas on May 31

Billions in profit may unblock scaling customer support beyond scrappy startup minimums

However (and I loathe this logic) if you can get the marketplace to accept that minimal level, and the brand harm is inconsequential, why not pocket the savings

> and the brand harm is inconsequential

That's the thing though. Google have destroyed their brand through these kinds of actions, over many years.

Those are not matter-of-fact saving, but rather significant savings

For those who find this appealing: Fires still burn down houses so what’s the point of fire departments?

Skill issue—in management.

Good leaders perceive workhorse vs showhorse spectrum, critical toil vs needless flash (and vice versa).

It’s hard. Most fail at hard things. The industry in the aggregate will fail at hard things

So you get articles like this.

Open source meth is still bad in absolute terms even if it’s better than the alternative meth

They’re not going to build their own, it’ll just be one of the many capabilities of the agent platform they use. A 2024 SaaS is just a playbook for next-gen AI.

You don’t buy a spelling correction program because it got built into Word. And now, the OS…

Indeed perhaps the most valuable lesson from travel is returning with the realization of just how poorly the generalizations and statistics describe the messy reality of a place. Everywhere has every sort of person