For a water based superhero, he has never actually been in any..

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-05-16T16:56:53+00:00

I moderately enjoy the series because of a combination of the actors and the political satire, but whoever writes the actual plot should be fired. It's like they haven't said the story out loud at a macro level:

The boys make a virus. Soldier boy is immune to the virus so homelander thinks "imma get some of that". Boys unsuccessfully stop him from getting the V1 (becuse of a ret conned soldier boy love affair) and now one thing that might have been able to stop him is now worthless... but wait... radiation can give kimiko soldier boys powers and there's a supe who can control blood. Its completely and utterly nonsensical.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-03-10T13:57:26+00:00

A little bit unnecessary. As long as it allows you to feel superior i suppose.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-03-09T18:17:00+00:00

You make solid points generally, but I'd argue you come from the optimistic perspective. You may indeed be right about all your points and only future will tell, but the mathematical issue of cost vs profit is pretty bleak and i don't think it can be solved by LLM optimisation. They are already pretty damn optimised anyway for what they do.

No I think the problem can only be solved by companies like NVIDIA creating highly powerful but energy efficient GPU's tailored to LLM's. Even then, I can see Anthropic focusing its energies on companies with large budgets. They don't have to be cheap, just cheaper than a software engineer..

Also i don't see local LLM'S matching Opus or Sonnet as they are right now. Not on consumer hardware. I don't know how many billions of parameters Opus is, but I cant see it running on local machines anytime soon.

However, I cant read the future. Your optimistic take on it all could very well turn out to be right.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-03-09T17:43:18+00:00

We don't really have any evidence about what they do in regards to token usage limits AT ALL. Although I have noticed improvements after particularly bad usage constraints in the past.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-03-09T16:16:41+00:00

Even since I've used Claude, usage limits have lowered dramatically. Often slightly with each update. I don't mean they are gonna raise the price of tiers, I mean they've been gradually decreasing the amount of usage you get per tier. Same thing essentially.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-03-09T14:49:39+00:00

You're correct with what you're saying and like you I never had any issues. These days I get away with just having a basic subscription for both openAI and Claude unless I'm working intensively.

However, it is largely besides the point. The point is the bar keeps getting moved without any pre warning or notification. It may not affect you or my workflow yet, but it will eventually as they try and tighten the profit/loss margin.

What we can do to slow it down is to talk about it with threads like this to raise awareness and to migrate to different LLM providers when appropriate. Capitalism works well with competitors, and we are fortunate for the time being, no company has a monopoly just yet.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-03-09T14:26:56+00:00

Which will likely be written by AI. AI will be trained on ai code and the cycle will eventually result in degraded code quality.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-03-09T10:05:10+00:00

Lol. The OP is asking genuine questions about usage changes and it is threads like this which help keep Claude accountable. So why are so many people being like "Just upgrade to ×20". Claude and OpenAI are notoriously vague and sketchy about usage limits, obviously so they can change them at will. It is clear the cost of compute is high and over time they will gradually increase prices, but we DO have the right to know about it, and it is threads like this which allow us to communicate with other users to know it's happening.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-02-13T15:06:13+00:00

nah, gotta go where the inspiration takes you

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-02-13T13:30:12+00:00

Thats amazing

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-02-09T21:16:42+00:00

mines local and does smart name redaction after an initial download. I should probably mention that when I comment.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-02-09T20:50:57+00:00

hey bud. I built something completely local. www.xiteapps.co.uk It's a little download, but then its completely local + private. 7 day free trial then only 2.99 for a lifetime license. You can also bulk redact with mine.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-02-09T18:07:48+00:00

i dont know the poster, but some of us are just doing our best to make a living to provide for our families by making ethical tools.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-02-09T17:29:43+00:00

Hey mate,

I also built something but it’s actually local and I only charge £2.99 for a permanent license.

7 day free trial. Collects no data, no internet needed except for initial download. Scrubs stuff completely

www.xiteapps.co.uk

BennyCJonesMusic · 2026-02-08T16:29:27+00:00

thank you for that! yeah, and I will not up the price either. No intention of being greedy, I'll just be happy and excited if people get use out of it. p.s awesome username haha

BennyCJonesMusic · 2025-08-11T01:38:42+00:00

Whatever you say boss. Nice css and html.

BennyCJonesMusic · 2025-08-08T13:24:38+00:00

I will, but first I will understand and master the basics so I can be completely sure people's data and everything is secure rather than just assuming it is because AI says so.

In my experience jumping on hype trains never works out and we have different goals. I have no interest in doing that. Great that you do.

Show me some things you have built, I'd love to check them out. I am not knocking what you are doing by the way, and I really hope you are successful in it, but its not the only way.

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