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I believe the ideal solution would be to take a genAI image from gpt-image2 and transform it onto a pseudo-deterministic layout.

Did anyone tried a non-naive approach, aka throwing the image with a simple "rebuild it" prompt ?


It's all speculation.

Reality is Fable is x2 price increase against previous.

GPT5.5 is x2 price increase against previous. And after the last week reset, codex is hungry for your sub allowance.

Everybody can see that the massive raises are not matching the revenue, at all.

It's a surprising headline. Yes it does make sense to cut the price to gain market share, but it also make sense to keep it at a sustainable level, which seems to not have been reached yet.


Fable is twice the size of Opus from what I gathered. So I'm not sure if 2x price translates to 2x profits as well.

Not sure about GPT but it seems plausible they've also been increasing the model size with recent releases. (Progressively training a bigger model and easing into a profitable price range for that model scale?)


it looks like all AI is following the same pattern as GPT-3 again, building bigger models to achieve better results.

Which is actually good news if it still works

Opus 4.8 cost 2x than 4.7 But to compensate for that Claude Code limits wete doubled

This was a week after deepseek slashed prices!


A "plans for agents" interface because I'm tired of reading huge markdown plans to iterate on the real work. Is supports infinite 2d space like miro, but has one thread per card, a cli for the agent to treat open notes. It support voice prompting too.

It feels like you have parallel conversation with an agent, except it understands all the surface. And it's granular, surgical and precise.

Usage: I'm writing a game design document of 70 pages with it, working surgically without having to worry about what page number the edit was.

It really solved my main bottleneck which is telling the AI what to do in a complete and comprehensive context.

Readme is trash but your agent will understand what to do

https://github.com/WiseDragonAI/TheBlueprintTool


Sounds interesting! I’m using VS Code with Cline to instruct Claude Sonnet 4.7, to develop a web-app, and find it’s frequently re-reading the project documentation at each and every turn, costing me tokens. Would TheBlueprintTool enable me to avoid this - or do I misunderstand its use case? TIA

I wonder if profitable means that investment must be recouped or just if your operational expenses must be compensated by your earnings.

Anthropic is becoming "profitable" while burning a series H of 69 bns usd. Does it count as profitable?

I'm curious if someone well versed in finance can answer, because from my uneducated perspective, it's not profitable to burn billions in order to make a billion.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-revenue-explosive-...


> wonder if profitable means that investment must be recouped or just if your operational expenses must be compensated by your earnings

S&P requires profitability (i.e. net income) according to GAAP. That definition incorporates both ROA and operating income.


EBITDA is typically used to evaluate profitability.

> EBITDA is typically used to evaluate profitability

S&P requires GAAP profits, i.e. net income. EBITDA is above that.


I'm making a 3D game and I hate flat worlds, a planet is much more elegant, both finite and infinite in gameplay terms since the surface is not expandable, but you can't hit a world border at the same time.

Cartesian coordinates doesn't work well for the player so I wanted a lat/long/altitude grid system.

I could have spent few days walking through stackoverflow and debuging my upcoming flawed implementation.

ChatGPT web version almost one shot the helpers in 2024 and boy, there were a lot of pitfalls.


I've been playing with making some retro games using Claude.

Rally-X inspired retro arcade game in the browser: https://linsomniac.github.io/rally-xy/

A nsnipes networked multiplayer maze shooter game (also browser based but it needs a server for the networked multiplayer part): https://github.com/linsomniac/isnipes


It is not "clear", as your comment suggests, it's hidden. Which is semantically the opposite of clear. Regarding your theory, might be true, might be false. But it's highly speculative.

All of us, including you, know that he is not saying "they are being transparent." When someone says "it's clear that..." in this way they're saying "It's clear to us what is really happening here.

It's not clear, there is no tangible proof that Mythos is not released because they don't have compute power to serve it. Saying that would imply that the "too dangerous" is a lie. Nobody has proof. It can feel "clear" for you, but it's not. Hence, I correct it.

Yes I got how they used the phrase. And it was wrong, so I wanted to react. Thanks for your addition, it dissipates any doubt on the intention of OP: he thinks Anthropic is hiding the lack of power by pretending it's too dangerous. But he is wrong to assume that without proof, hence my reaction.

Agreed, but I'm talking about how they are, very clearly, using the phrase.

The not clear comment is valid by either interpretation.

To a lot of us it’s not clear that’s what’s happening. It’s speculation and one possibility.

It may also be a secondary consideration and not the primary gating factor.

Anthropic has had their missteps but it’s still plausible to take what they say at face value.


I agree, saying "it's clear" when at best, "it's plausible" doesn't let the conversation happen. And pretending to know what is going on behind the scene, anon on HN is not credible

Urgency x scarcity, unbeatable marketing move.

It is really good. Will also cut through the common procurement, legal and change management processes seen at these orgs.

Genius^2

Step 1: claim you created a tool so dangerous you can't release it

Step2: offer to test it, but only for the biggest companies in the world

Step 3: onboard those big players on your tooling and product

Step 4: profit

This is genius.


And all you have to do is demonstrate unique value during the pilot phase!

Err... wait... that was already the hard part... hmm


Genius marketing move doesn't mean there is no value.

It means than even if the value you offer is similar as your competitors, you are the one conquering the market.

That's the only way to not becoming a commodity.


With trillion dollars at stake they can hire best of best in sales and marketing. And unlike some hardcore hackers who may have ethics that does not always move in direction of more money. Sales and marketing people are highly motivated for opportunities to make more money.

Our game is to craft shit, their game is to sell shit. You gotta respect the different tastes in the nature!

Yeah, Companies to buy shit and their employees to eat shit. Lion king would say it is great circle of life.

Here spoke the wise man!

<stop hiring people>

Don't you understand, if they really did do the <ai magic> they don't need to hire anyone, IT SELLS ITSELF


It’s true that providing security services to so many organizations will likely put them in a position to earn lots of money. It makes them an essential service, sort of like what happened with Cloudflare and denial-of-service attacks. (There are competitors, but they’re the first company people think of.)

But I think that downplays the importance of having a good product. If the product didn’t work, this would be a good way to lose trust with a lot of organizations in a hurry.


This is a circular economy that makes everyone look good. Almost all of these enterprise companies are sitting on top of so much of tech debt that in any realistic scenario they cant really patch vulnerabilities if they are even in double digits. A lot of these companies would not even let their valuable enough code to be ingested by LLM's.

At this phase no company would risk their brand by calling the product as ineffective. The big players are in it together and small ones have no option but to play along.

Nevertheless collecting the historical wisdom and running it at machine scale does have a lot of benefits for sure. The only question is the signal to noise ratio, machine is doing what humans did, just at a multiplier speed and with a lot more context than what a normal human can hold.


Yeah and apparently, Mythos is pretty effective at finding critical issues. So it seams to be a good product served with a genius offer. Anthropic founding engineers are already comfortable, they will end rich.

They did produce great value, claude code and opus 4.5 are a singularity in software engineering.

The job we practiced for decades simply doesn't exist anymore.


Yes, it flips it from “don’t use a remote LLM on our code because security” to “we must run an LLM on our code because security.”

These companies are surely already onboarded…? They claim like 10k verified and high severity CVEs. Would you have preferred they just rolled it out like another opus update? You wouldn’t be insinuating in that situation that they were careless and reckless? They risk missing a boatload of revenue if openAI front runs them for a public launch. In what world is this some sort of scam??

Where did I use the word scam?

Marketing move doesn't mean scam. It describe the ability to sell people over a narrative and surpassing your competitor in market share. And that's exactly what is happening.

My post is a "tribute" to the efficiency of Anthropic's communication. I never complained about anything, nor calling it a scam, nor saying they should have released mythos to the public instead of rolling it out to a selected cohort.

You tried to expand my words to make me say something I didn't, because my post wasn't giving you a clear conclusion of my opinion regarding their private release.


Ok you’re totally right, I read this as a cynical “this is all marketing” post ==> a scammy connotation. Without that read, your points are fairly valid, but are you still implying this is all a pure marketing tactic? If so I would still argue against that as a necessity but surely marketing could be heavily involved. But still: this could easily be a footgun. OpenAI will easily release the same model and now that Anthropic has taken the initiative to do a slower more contained rollout they wouldn’t need to do any of that. So from a business perspective I would still argue this whole glasswing initiative would make their sales and marketing department pretty nervous. I mean in a second-order branding sense sure this plays into the “we are ethical” ethos but it hardly seems worth the risk

I don't have enough elements to conclude if the world would collapse if Mythos was released publicly without Glasswing.

Nor publicly or in my internal reasoning. I rarely conclude without proof or very intense and clear intuition.

From a strategic PoV it makes sense to check if their model is dangerous, I wouldn't want to have my brand name associated with "NK hacker team find zero day in all linux servers of the web and ..."


Seems like they're not even close to step 4.

And put Chris Olah, Anthropic co-founder, sitting next to Pope Leo XIV presenting his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, at the Vatican.

>can't release it

can't release it the plebs


Unsure about that, opus was already insanely good and we got it for a fractional cost via subscriptions.

They want the plebs, they want the mass.


I don't think so bro; anthropic wants B2B cash.

I have a rule for Claude to stop watermarking the commits. I feel exposed when it's doing it and I rewrote the entire Claude assisted commit history after switching from Copilot to Claude.


That's a great feature though. Vibecoded projects should be easily distinguishable, not only by common patterns preferred by "AI".


Better start including YoE on commits as well, projects by freshers should be easily distinguishable.


YoE?


Years of Experience. I'd put TC instead though.


TC?


Now dig into copilot plus and how they price the premium requests. The math is not mathing, they are aggressively trying to capture the market.


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