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Bending Spoons tried to 2x my Harvest bill on the usage-based plan and 146x (yes, that's not a percentage) on the unlimited plan. I switched to Clockify [1] and it works well.

1: https://clockify.me/


Is an interesting question whether the same will apply to AI models? Not on 1996 hardware, of course. But on 2026 hardware in 2056. Does anybody have any idea / insight?

There's no way to know. It's impossible for anyone to imagine the AI state of the art in 2056.

But it's a fair bet that any kind of RSI will improve efficiency, possibly by a lot. And it's also very possible that 2056 AI will be running on some other substrate - maybe photonics, or something even more exotic - that wouldn't map cleanly to 2026 hardware.

Unlike chess, AI isn't a constrained problem, so there is no single higher ELO metric that would make performance comparable.

Computing in general has always become smaller, cheaper, faster, more portable, more energy efficient, and more connected.

So there may not even be a concept of discrete computing devices in 2056. Or of discrete software and services. Compute may be everywhere, in everything, all networked, reinventing itself continually.


> I don't see how a heartbeat alone without logs would help to identify temporary failures.

It does help. Sometimes jobs unexpectedly don't run at all.


A temporary failure means that the job failed only once and then starts running again. If you want to investigate why it failed, you will need the output of that particular failed run.


This is incorrect. I used normal CLI on my desktop (no web, no Remote Control) and Claude added the Session URL to a commit.


I cancelled my subscription over this [1].

1: https://x.com/m_herrmann/status/2092579839676948495


Indeed, the disclaiming of it being human-coded isn't the problem with their commit messages, them using it as a growth hack mechanism is. BTW to say it's attributed to Claude, I don't give that much importance, but I think it's useful to other coders to know what model was used. A simple assisted by AI would mostly handle the plaigiarism problem, because Claude's training data didn't come from Claude.


Interesting. Can you elaborate on why you feel strongly about this? It's easily removable--I don't think your characterization that it "forces" attribution is correct, it just defaults it.


It's deliberately hostile, in the way that Facebook is to its userbase. I guess Claude doesn't have nearly the grip on their users that Facebook does. Facebook can make it hard to communicate with (via WhatsApp) or stay connected with some of your friends or relatives, while Claude can just make you use the second-best model for cheaper (if Fable is the best).


who cares?


Some people who are in this thread might be interested in that view. A little more context would have helped it though I agree.


They doubled my bill from $130 to $280 per year and graciously also offered me a $19,000 per year plan [1]. I declined and am now using Clockify.

1: https://x.com/m_herrmann/status/2039876227088163161


We've been paying ~100 a month for the last 13 years and got an email earlier this month:

"On your next renewal date, August 31, 2026, your account will be transitioned to a Harvest Enterprise plan with Unlimited usage billing.

You will be automatically billed $2,199.50 for your new monthly plan.

You can always downgrade to Flex usage billing, which would have an estimated price of $416.05 and would adapt to your monthly usage.".

Needless to say, after 2 days with Codex the account has been closed.


A better headline would be "Gemini 3.5 Flash is the best vision model". It tops almost every single benchmark shown in the article.


At least judging from the headlines, it seems Google is far behind on AI. Fable/GPT 5.6 and recently Kimi get a lot of attention, solve long-standing math problems and lead in coding. It seems that Google's supposed advantages of very deep pockets, original talent, vast amounts of data and unmatched distribution are really not making that much of a difference. What is going wrong?


Behind, but not clearly "far behind". Next model release from any major player could shift the leaderboard again.


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