That sounds like adding a bottleneck, unless you mean writing a harness that automatically asks the model to keep going, so that there's no humans involved at all?
In a closed a press briefing earlier today, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman offered an unusually direct formulation of that message, ending the session with: “Welcome to the AGI era.”
Yeah this is the first model I have been able to run locally that actually feels useful, this is unreal I am considering cancelling my claude sub and going to just api (maybe GLM?) for really hard tasks.
Yeah I was thinking open router but I will look around at options, I genuinely think this model is good enough for like 90+% of my use cases, and the top frontier models are still not that good at architecture so I have to do that myself still so I won't be losing out.
Yeah but that is a boat name, I don't think I've ever heard of a joke candidate in an election even do as close to as well as this against a high profile opponent.
I would wager thats because the internet/social media is a relatively new thing compared to politics, and thats where most of these campaigns to vote joke come from. There will be a lot more of them in the future.
It is pro-kicking out oppossition to the system that uses the system to grow in power without contributing anything back to it. So the us has abandoned the "Wandel durch Handel" ideology- which lets admit it- was a brutal failure. Russia did not change. China changed back. None of the countries in the middle east got democratic or "contributing to the worlds allmende". Turkey is sliding back.
No, I don't know a single project I'd call "open source" (as understood by the FOSS community) that restricts what you can do with it, that'd make it very much "not open source" as you're discriminating against specific persons/groups/fields of endeavor.
Beyond reciprocity which is the entire point of that license, what restrictions does it come with? I guess you could say that it has a restriction of adding new restrictions, but surely that's not what you're talking about?
Copyleft licenses have restrictions. Now, those restrictions are definitely in promotion of the normative ethics that the FOSS community holds, but they are nonetheless restrictions.
> For one, on the margin people are willing to pay a lot for slightly better models. I know personally the value the LLM adds to my workflow is considerably more than the $200/m I pay the frontier labs. I have no interest in optimizing that to get it slightly lower. There are a very vocal minority that optimizes this or companies whose LLM expense is marginal, but I think that's the minority (correct me if I'm wrong, curious what their customer base looks like)
Enterprise is how Claude/OAI make their money. Enterprise companies absolutely optimize around costs for infra, it's like an entire job category.
> Also the actual LLM is a tiny portion of the value added. Anyone that tried to build agentic solutions from LLM apis quickly realizes that a huge value is the Claude Code / Codex harness. There are open source implementations like OpenCode but they're not nearly as good.
Claude and OAI are not valued at $1T because of their harnesses
> Think about it another way. Consider how much money Microsoft spends on maintaining Excel. There are open source alternatives that have >90% of the functionality, they'll even work w/ Excel files and generate them. Google sheets is probably 99% and available to everyone and better in a lot of regards. But the immense value spreadsheet software produces workers above the $100 or whatever a year makes it so that there is a real moat and no one bothers exploring alternatives.
Enterprise excel is like $50 a month, the closed source labs charge orders of magnitude more than that per user per month for enterprise, and want to charge more if they can to maintain their valuation. I spent $20 in an afternoon yesterday using my work plan for one workflow for reference, I probably spend at least $50 a day and I don't even do that much coding anymore.
$200/mo for 20x Max is great value - but it's not sustainable and won't last forever. Microsoft gave up. Anthropic will too. I use roughly $10k/mo - at that price it's absolutely not worth it.
I'm genuinely not sure where the balancing point even is.
Probably increasing learning rate have some value for these players which is enabled by subsidized usage.
And cost of acquiring learning via users feedback versus additional learning data value for a given company will dictate whether such company will give up or will continue subsidized usage, despite being unprofitable on the paper, but probably really valuable as a long term strategy for GTM and product development and increased learning rates.
> Claude and OAI are not valued at $1T because of their harnesses
They're valued at that because they add a lot of value and people pay for the product. The product is more than the LLM. If you want argue the value of the harness vs LLM but flippant remark adds nothing.
> Enterprise excel is like $50 a month, the closed source labs charge orders of magnitude more than that per user per month for enterprise, and want to charge more if they can to maintain their valuation. I spent $20 in an afternoon yesterday using my work plan for one workflow for reference, I probably spend at least $50 a day and I don't even do that much coding anymore.
I want to know what percent of their revenue is this API spend compared to just a Claude/Codex max plan that's $200/m and very generous.
I'd imagine it has to be immense. Most of the engineers I know are spending $200/day, let's say 20 workdays per month, $4000/mo. Whatever % of revenue it is, it's got to be close to 100% of profit.
Who is paying $200/day? My company has me on a $30/month plan (I assume they pay annually?). I use Claude constantly and only hit usage limits when I try to do 4+ projects at once.
I can't imagine why anyone would need almost 7x that.
Depending on the harness, $200/session can be common. Thanks for harnesses like maki the cost is lower compared to OpenCode or Cursor.
But $200/day is very common in the business. The monthly plans are just a trial version of what's going to come for all of us. That's why I am very carefully looking into the open models today.
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