Cracking down on proliferation of open models which can't be locked down using the kind of guardrails that Anthropic/OpenAI/etc insist are keeping the public safe from all manner of nefarious bioweapons, hacker swarms, propaganda bots, etc. They've discovered they can't meaningfully slow Chinese model progress, so the next best option is to knock them out of competition in the enterprise market for any American company.
Both Anthropic and OpenAI leaders have repeatedly made this exact argument that it's impossible for open models to rigorously enforce the same kind of safety framework as proprietary cloud-served models. It's implicitly part of any regulatory framework they advocate or else it wouldn't be "fair" to American companies since Chinese models would "cheat" (provide weights).
This is true, and it's a good point. I agree that open weight model regulation would either limit the intelligence of open weight models below the frontier or kill them entirely. It would not prevent closed weight Chinese models, but those aren't really tenable in American enterprises unless they strike deals with American cloud providers to deploy them, via products like Bedrock. I unfortunately also have seen no evidence that we can put any sort of guardrails on open weight models whatsoever and so am reluctantly convinced that they should be regulated below the frontier until such a time as someone comes up with a mechanism that is not circumventable.
Because we're already designing machines with reinforcement learning. It would be two steps forward and one step back to design robots who can walk but can't fold laundry. Why would anyone want a third machine next to their washer and dryer if you're already going to have a household robot?
God, not to mention how home are designed around the two-machine space.
I so wanted to be able to use Qwen3.8-27B locally on my fully loaded M1 Max 64GB when spider-mario recommended I use MTPLX[1], but I still found the general MLX MTP acceleration to be so poor, I'd rather just use cheap tokens from OpenCode Zen and Go.
It's just too slow of a model. I know, I know there's new hardware, but my business paid like 4-5 grand for this MBP at the time, and I just don't feel the need to pay 7-8 grand to step up to current hardware when token spend is what it is.
slow as in the output is slow, or slow as in slow token rates?
qwen3.8 has been fantastic as far as token rates are concerned for me, but the overthinking thing with higher reasoning levels takes some coercion to get right.
fwiw pi and hermes both handle that model fairly well. omp required a lot of tuning. I didn't bother figuring out why, I presume it's because qwen3.8 expects reasoning declarations a bit differently. nothing a proxy can't fix.
Absolutely no where is that shown to customers, and OpenRouter is going to be in a world of shit when people learn this by HN post and the business asks themselves why its reputation keeps taking hits.
What a fucking ridiculous thing for me to learn by social news.
mimo-v2.5-free, mimo-v2.5, deepseek-flash in that order, honestly don’t even bother using qwen3.6-35b-a3b now unless i need uncensored tasks finished, mostly reverse engineering
most engineering tasks don’t require frontier llms
when they get stuck, then i consider moving up to more capable models
purchasing a claude plan seems widely unnecessary to me
the tasks they do better than the average engineer cut both ways: unless you have an existing portfolio of well written and designed work done pre-llms, it looks like you’re producing slop that pretends to be well designed
poor typography choices despite using the mode,
poor layout choices despite using popular CSS frameworks
etc
bad engineers will always be bad engineers
tools don’t make up for it
edit: a follow up to this— everyone is using eyebrows in their layouts and have no fucking clue why it was done to begin with
everyone has a status pill floating above their front page hero display text and its not fucking status related
Good, get him the fuck away from Wordpress. Though frankly, a better solution might be for businesses to ask themselves whether or not they need Wordpress anymore.
In the mean time, if you're unable to derisk Mullenweg out of your business stack, this is a good first step.
WordPress dominance of the web has certainly peaked, but history indicates there will be several years in which to continue to extract comfortable profits while riding it down. e.g. Oracle, a database that almost no business has actually needed in decades.
I'm not convinced that sort of legacy lock in exists in the web space. It moves fast and its value is in the content. In the age of AI, migrating that data makes it trivial to move away from a risky platform. I cut my development teeth on WP and managed some fairly large sites. There are far more interesting and well developed alternatives out there.
Sure, but, even with AI and the technical competence to steer it, it's still a pretty big lift to switch from, e.g. WordPress with billing and various other stuff to some ad hoc other thing. Even when I decided I was done with managing content in WordPress and moved it out to a Hugo static site for my company website, I still kept the commerce stuff in WordPress just because it works and we know it works from a decade or so of operation.
I'm certainly not deploying new WordPress sites, partly because of how weird and hostile Mullenweg has made the WordPress ecosystem for no good reason. I don't even necessarily disagree with the sentiments behind his words and actions, but the methods and how far it's gone in terms of lawfare is just silly and destructive.
Anyway, they won't get decades like Oracle has gotten. But, they've got a few years of comfy margins ahead if they don't blow it up too badly.
They'll continue to have plenty of existing passive revenue as long as WooCommerce users continue to use Stripe, and large enterprises continue to buy in to WP.com VIP.
This rings true to me. I am looking at setting up my own online store, and if you sell (legal!) stuff which Shopify Payments disallows, but Stripe does allow, you end up looking at WooCommerce (a very popular WordPress plugin) pretty fast.
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