Maybe I’m not the largest consumer of apps, but the only time I use an app is if I want to interface with a service or with other people. Apps are just the man in the middle.

Do I want to set up my scale to sync its data to my vibe coded app? Not really. Do I want to set up the dozens of visualizations and hundreds of different actions and thousands of different items for calorie tracking, where even a 5% error is extremely significant? No way. Am I going to convince any of my friends to download my vibe coded chat application? Absolutely not. Do I want to store my photos in my own vibe coded solution and trust it to run in 20 years? Not a chance.

While a segment of apps will surely become obsolete, I don’t think the majority of users time will be spent on their own vibe coded replacements. Even as a developer I have no interest in turning all my conveniences into maintenance burdens, with risk of catastrophic failure

It’s a mistake to think vibe coded apps will kill the App Store.

The issue is there will be less demand for apps. I don’t need to pay for a dulingo subscription when Claude can write a 5 minute language quiz for me. I don’t need to pay for Turbo Tax when Claude can prepare my tax documents for me.

Sure, it won’t replace all apps, but people will spend less time in apps and more time interacting with llms which hurts App Store revenue (Apples golden goose)

I would be extremely surprised if declining App Store usage due to LLMs ever effects Apple’s bottom line. Pretty sure the increase in developer licenses could easily offset any loss in profits, and might actually result in more revenue.

And it’s not like Apple is fixed. If this really did become a threat, Apple could surely integrate into Siri some ability to generate apps from your iPhone and put it behind their iCloud subscription.

They’ve had XCode for years, managed their entire UI library basically since conception, and have their own language for their apps. Fine tune DeepSeek for a while on swift iOS apps and I’m sure you could generate apps rivaling frontier models.

I really don’t see any existential threats for Apple here.

It is already happening with me. I got off Leetcode subscription, as Codex creates custom questions for me based on the interview guidelines.

I first saw an episode a few seasons in, I can’t remember which. It came on in the background while at a friends house and it kept distracting me. I didn’t catch the name of the show and spent years looking for it.

I actually stumbled upon Person of Interest a couple times, but the first couple episodes were so unlike what I saw I figured it was a different series.

Eventually I realized it was the same show, and was able to watch the first couple seasons with baited breath trying to figure out how it became the show in the episode that I glimpsed before… and if it even was as good as I thought it was years prior.

So maybe watch a random episode in the fourth season of you don’t like season one? XD

edit: it was even better than I remember. It became one of my favorite series, probably the one I still think about the most to this day

I can imagine this so much! Ha.

I remember watching through season 1 kind of in the background as it was a bit boring and then towards the end my head kept turning and going “when did this get good?!”.

And then in season 2 I was like “woah…”.

Yeah I can’t remember when it got good but I do remember it just kept getting better and better.

I still think about it so often. I haven’t rewatched it because I still remember so much if it given how often I’ve thought about it - I’m waiting to forget forget.

I tend to place it when Detective Carter finally deals with H.R.

There was definitely a lot building up to that point, but that felt like a major shift where the writers weren't holding back anymore.

For me it’s when they discover the memory bank. That’s when I had my mind blown moment, ok we’re in sci-fi now.

The Nolan bait-and-switch is legendary.

Tried this myself. Got 10/10 on propaganda, 0/10 on left wing propaganda, 10/10 on right wring propaganda.

I think that’s a bigger issue regardless of your political stance.

I’d be curious to see this ran through cohere’s tokenizer - they seem to be the largest lab with a focus on multilingualism.

I didn’t know mistral started serving deepseek-flash 4.1! This is awesome. A little more expensive than most providers though. $0.03/$0.007/$1.20 on mistral vs deepseeks own peak pricing of $0.03/$0.006/$1.20 (vs deepseeks off peak pricing of $0.015/$0.003/$0.60).

I prefer using a European provider though so this is actually cheaper than I can find elsewhere.

I also found this odd. After mistral announced v4 preview, I just assumed it was what would be used in Le Chat. I gave it a try and was impressed.

Turns out they’re using GLM in le chat. Quite concerning if I’m being honest, and this is coming from a huge mistral fanboy.

I wish we could toggle mistral large 4 in le chat so I could get a feel for it.

I feel exactly the same. Switchting to GLM for Le Chat without an option to prefer a Mixtral model leaves a bad taste. I hope this is temporary while the new model rolls out, but this is not filling me with confidence in either the model or the judegement of the company.

I’m not sure it speaks so poorly on the company. I’m not sure whether they’re using GLM 5.3 or 5.3 flash. The former is twice the price (probably better results?) and the latter is a quarter the price.

If they don’t end up switching models by the end of the year, I think that says a lot about the models. If they’re just waiting for an appropriately large or small model, or waiting to get large 4 put through its paces before switching, I think that’s a pretty ego-less way to go about it, and could speak pretty highly in a way.

Mistral large 3/medium 3.5/small 4 have all been pretty dated for a while so if they just needed a stopgap, I could understand. Now that large 4 is out though, we will see if that was the case.

Not sure it’s particularly odd. Several models of late have launched with an introductory promotional pricing, only to later lock in the promotional pricing.

Too many models now to remember specifics - I believe deepseek v4 did this and one of the gpt models (5? 5.1? 6?) did this if I recall correctly. I’m also fairly confident Google has had a few promotional periods on launch of the model, I seem to remember them starting the trend.

I’ve been using mistral-large-3 a tremendous amount. Price/speed/quality ratio was the best I could find. Been using the mistral-large-4 now since it came out for a few things, and while it’s not price competitive for the quality, it is really good. I’ve replaced a lot of my browser-based-chat-ui-llm-usage with mistral since it launched.

To me this implies they continued the training run for 4.1 and it improved. A 4.2 would imply they changed something about how it’s trained/how inference works, and a 5.0 would be a major update (who knows what would have changed).

This is just my headcanon though.

The letter counting issue is due to tokenization. And most models still get this wrong often enough, even with reasoning. Probably less so on strawberry given how prevalent it is, and less so than without reasoning, but this not a historical issue. It’s becoming less of one though.