Never complain, never explain

Ahh yes, it is the technology that is the easiest gate to break down first. *takes puff on elaborately rare-wood pipe*

Running an open model locally on your own machine, and having it augment-train itself using your own sessions as the training input.

Author states, “Single developer projects can build to the caliber and consistency of large development teams.”

When I, as a single person, can produce a project in one month that would have taken a team of four people three months to produce, why would I care about token cost? I’m now spending $500/month instead of $40,000 month to get the same thing 3x faster. $500 for a project instead of $120,000. (Assumes my cost, $40k is the other three people)

It’s a no-brainer —- use frontier all the time.

"A robot that's a tenth of the speed is still cost effective when it's a hundredth of the price"

-- CPG Grey, Humans Need not Apply. Released over a decade ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMFj75kBQlU

Have you laid those people off? You still have people on the payroll. If each one of them uses a $500 subscription, you are now spending $42k/month, not $40k.

Now think about that he is counting it like:

He never had to hire anyone in the first place.

He didn't have to make any contracts, deal with screening, background checks, recruitment calls.

All that money he didn't spend he can spend on maxing out token usage.

No, but the 3 of us can now accomplish a lot more than we used to. We spend around $450 a month on hosted inference plus capital / utility costs of around $100 a month in local inference.

And our 2 non-technical staff are now busy designing apps, so when they hand off something to be productised, it’s far more complete than the old days of a few Figma drawings

Are you sure you are?

Try laying some people off just to be sure.

I'm very un-motivated to do so since then I'd have more work to do, and I'd be making less money.

My bet is we no longer have the benifit of the doubt. and so taking capital and burning hard is not going to break through into consumer as easily as it did. So I extend the arc of time, tell people I'm a business, focus on giving customer as much free as I can, (probably add the harness to my product), and over time build an affectionate connetion with customers and then remind them I'm a business.

> use frontier all the time

Agreed. You may think that the task is simple, but a brainfart of a dumb model overlooking something can cost you more in time and effort (if you relied on the output of the wrong code and now have to go back to regenerate), that it just doesn't make sense to use non-frontier for anything but hobby projects.

Interesting -- seems to be a "Docker for music production" product in there somewhere

how would that work exactly?

:shrugging emoji:

I remember long ago, when I first met a computer person in college and he told me about PCs vs UNIX, I asked him, "why don't they make it run on a PC?"

First day of work, immediately Ultracode refactor the entire codebase, do a massive 800k line force push to main, git comment, "Hey guys! First day, first commit -- fixed codebase with Claude. Hope this works!"

I've found Fable 5 to be so much better than 4.8.

For building a full stack custom CRM and media pipeline tool with video conversion, transcription, and indexing. Supabase, AWS, Meili, NextJS, GCS - lots of surfaces and planes.

4.8 basically couldn't do it, I abandoned the project as the fallback was, "current business processes".

With F5 it's been 4 weeks and almost ready for production release.

I have the same quality results with Fable. With just a brief prompt, it created a great static website with a beautiful animation of a workflow. Gemini's output was so poor that I closed the chat. And with Codex, the results were bad, so I discarded them.

Agree. Opus 4.8 could make nice little toy and demo apps. This app had a lot of surfaces and pipeline, Postgres, vector search, S3 -- couldn't handle that. Fable 5 is still a lot of work and you have to check it, but it really does perform at senior eng level. Shipping good size features daily.

Were you using Fable 5?

The high-level structures of writing are prose, poetry, and drama.

Cross cutting them is the purpose, these are not mutex: exposition, narrative, description, conviction.

There's also straight rambling nonsense.

Ha, how many years spent reading it as re-flog and not ref-log. Flog the git!