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Are you saying that Claude will help you perform malicious attack against infrastructure if you ask it to and that anthropic should be able to stop that? I could see reasonable use cases for this like penetration testing against your own infrastructure. That’s not the same as making weapons or meth.

Sounds like OpenAI trying to control another narrative.

That's what happens when you're so untrustworthy as Sam Altman. This is coming to roost now. Ever since Paul Graham even said he'll get whatever he wants by any means necessary, basically. And then his board turns on him.

He's a constant liar.


I wish being untrustworthy and being unsuccessful were linked in this way, but sadly they are not.

Altman's untrustworthiness goes all the way back to Loopt and Paul Graham's comments about him were meant as praise, not criticism.

OpenAI's problem is that in addition to Altman being untrustworthy he has also just been flailing in terms of focus.


> ...just been flailing...

Brains fried post late-00s to 10s endless ZIRP waterfall helping them fail up. Not used to reality where everything they touch does not turn to gold.


Something I don't quite understand is why software developers are flocking to CC - product of a company whose CEO literally said they will be out of job because of it.

I am a software developer that believes LLMs will ruin the market for us in terms of destroying a lot (not all, but more than enough to be devestating) jobs and depressing wages, but I still have no real option but to use them to remain relevant for now.

That said, I dont have a horse in the race and have used all the available options and find it very easy to switch among them, so I'm not a specific booster of Claude Code or any other option.


Because whether I use it or not doesn’t affect the fact that it’s going to take my job. It’s still the easiest way to get things done today.

That's like asking why people who shovel shit all day started using backhoes to do their shit shoveling

ostrich, meet sand. I mean, have you tried CC? It's fun to build stuff with it. I think developers that don't use it (or something like it) will be out of a job, yes (unless they're very niche).

Like Jensen Huang said the job of an engineer is to solve problems not writing code. The code is a means to an end. This is certainly true for me as an engineer and why I'm not worried about AI.

If he's right they'll be out of job regardless whether it's because of Claude or another AI.

Because fear sells easily to those who do not know the future.

Dario constantly fearmongers to them and 98% of software developers all fall for it, and he needs to sell you access to his product.

The future is local LLMs and Dario knows this is their main threat. Just as Cursor, they don't want to pay for Claude anymore and are going with local models.


It’s just because ChatGPT is worse than Claude as of today. If that flipped, which is probably will at some point, if only temporarily, OpenAI will be back on top. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with Altman’s morals.

People don't know who Dario is yet.

Sam looks like a used car sales man. Dario looks like he'd hand out coolaid at Jonestown.


What are you actually claiming? Your take on their looks is irrelevant, and I don't know if you're hinting at anything specific when you say "People don't know who Dario is yet".

As long as it means Sam doesn't get another dollar from me. What's the flavor?

Death

That's what I call a feature wishlist.

Not millions. Many many billions. (not on virtual events, but on the platform itself--that's the crazy part)


This is incredible. I just blew through $200 last night in a few hours on 1M context. This is like the best news I've heard all year in regards to my business.

What is OpenAIs response to this? Do they even have 1M context window or is it still opaque and "depends on the time of day"


rarely go over 25 percent in codex but i hit 80 on claude code in just a short time.


Did u use the API or subscription?


Max subscription and "extra usage" billing


That sounds high. I mean, if you paid for the 20x max plan you’d be capped at around 200/month and at least for me as a professional engineer running a few Claude’s in parallel all day, I haven’t exceeded the plans limits.


Prior to this announcement, all 1M context use consumed "extra usage", it wasn't included in a normal subscription plan.


So, I’ve been using opus 4.6 1m since it was fist available to 20x max users daily. What I think has happened is that even in doing so, I have not actually exceeded the plan token limits and therefore haven’t been charged for “extra usage” (just double checked). So, unless there’s a billing mistake or delay, “any usage” != “extra usage” which is what I was always unclear about. I am careful to iterate with claude on plans in plan mode followed by clearing the context and executing. I think I am hovering around the higher end of the smaller window model where I would have otherwise seen auto-compaction run.

Another reason for less token usage is that 4.6 is much better at delegating agents (its own explorer agents or my custom agents) to avoid cluttering the window.


Exactly. How ridiculous. The world doesn’t owe ‘principal engineers’ shit. I hate to work with people like this.

—- from a ‘principal engineer’


I wanna understand this, but it's gone from a bunch of people talking about how great it is to a bunch of technical people talking about how worthless it is. So I think it's probably not that great. Who cares if I can chat remotely with my AI? What's the difference?

What's so good about that?


Were they bought by private equity or something? This seems like something private equity would do.



I think they’re just trying to do anything to survive, since they’re getting their lunch eaten by LLMs trained in stack overflow posts.


More Sam Altman lies. Can’t believe anything that jerk says


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