Even at these prices I find claude and codex subscriptions to be cheaper than per-token pricing when my usage is hovering around the session limits. I guess the subscriptions are heavily subsidized.

I guess I got downvoted because people don't believe me that it's cheaper? But I spent $5 a couple days ago in one hour with deepseek v4 in a coding agent. That's way more expensive than a $20/month claude subscription. Even if I hit claude's 5h limit in one hour I can do that many times in a month.

I have a similar experience, however if you spent $5 at these rates you may have an issue with caching in your client.

you doing probably something wrong, I used Deepseek v4 pro with opencode and in a day used 100M tokens for ~$2. Majority of tokens are cache tokens and those are extremely cheap in deepseek bordering free.

Can you give some details about your use case. I have been using DS4 very heavily and I can hardly spend more than 1USD per day

AI is helping to finish off the job of destroying democracy that the rich started. We are doomed.

We're not doomed. We're just between revolutions.

It's impossible to predict when they happen, or their outcomes. The world may be worse at least for a while after them. Or they fail in general.

But they happen and then all the people who were crowing about the inevitability of some existing order and now it embodies natural law and what not look really f*ckin stupid in retrospect.

People believed in the divine right of kings with the same full earnestness of people on this forum who have think AI is just the outcropping of some transcendent mathematical telos.

> you can organize politically

Can you? Maybe if you can afford an AI powered social media bot farm. What a great technology.

What is "Cope." supposed to mean here?

It is the imperative of "to cope". As in "cope and seethe", used as a dismissal.

seems unlikely as it owns twitter and grok, both being giant money sinks

It was not the right call, Steve Jobs was just a monopolist killing a competing platform and we're all worse off for it.

Flash was a security and battery disaster just like Java applets. Both are dead as browser plugins and good riddance.

I meant that designing Flash to use more CPU to save bandwidth was the right call at the time, unless I misunderstand your reply.

If the bill is properly worded open sourcing the code shouldn't imply that all 3rd party libraries also have to be open sourced.

> shouldn't imply that all 3rd party libraries also have to be open sourced.

That's a very reasonable way to address the issue of 3rd party licensed IP. I expect something like that will get incorporated into the legislation. In fact, I'm confident it will because well-funded lobbyists will ensure that common sense concern and its very reasonable solution are heard.

Then Electronic Arts and Microsoft will sell their existing server code to newly formed companies (which they happen to own). Then their captive game studios will start releasing new versions where the publicly released "server source code" is five pages of #IfDefs followed by a call to "Start_Totally_3rd_Party_GameServer" in the new library that's not required to be included in the mandated release.

For extra credit, the newly formed 3rd party entity will be incorporated and domiciled in Ireland, Malta or whatever country is currently most tax and currency exchange advantaged. Then the license fees their captive studios have to pay to use the 3rd party library get offshored and tax sheltered - while being large enough amounts to prove this definitely isn't a sham transaction!

To be clear, I don't approve of this myself. In fact, I hate it. But I worked at a high level in a top ten publicly traded tech giant long enough to see how the armies of soul-eating MBAs, lawyers, consultants and lobbyists can subvert anything. Fortunately, only half my soul was eaten and some of it has regrown.

It should if it wants to prevent malicious compliance by spinning out essentially the whole server into a "third party" library.

Every engineer to manager has the same thought but after a few years they can barely code.

AI is good for shopping today because all other platforms are fully enshitified but AI is still in the pre-enshitification phase. It will be infested with ads soon enough. Enjoy it while you can.

I get annoyed at all the other DBs that require their own heavy duty server process when for 90% of my projects there is only one client, my app server. Is there a DB that combines sqlite's embedded simplicity with higher concurrent write throughput?

I think the concurrent write thing is not as much of an issue nowadays with the speed of NVMEs and WAL.

Firebird, maybe?