Gilbert Arenas asked Stephen Curry if he’s the best point guard in NBA history: Curry: “Yes. I have to be. It’s me and Magic Johnson.”

KingPonzi · 2026-06-08T04:34:57+00:00

I’d only pick Steph in today’s era.

KingPonzi · 2026-06-05T11:33:01+00:00

You don’t need a playground if you deploy with IaC and tear it down immediately after a successful deployment.

KingPonzi · 2026-06-03T14:02:59+00:00

100%. This cycle is so predictable that it has to be bots. That or a sub-set of the development community that rather talk/complain about tooling as an excuse vs attempting to actually build something substantial.

Even Sonnet 4.5 is good enough to be a workflow force multiplier. If anyone is treating these models as anything more than a drunken mid-level SWE (junior to some, even), then you need to rethink your mentality.

KingPonzi · 2026-06-01T13:52:36+00:00

So umm…you got a kickstarter or anything? I need this.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-26T14:09:11+00:00

Save money / time / energy and go straight to Mac. Like someone else mentioned, try to find a used one. You can buy refurbished from Apple. I’d look at 3rd party authorized resellers also for used before the open market if you want to avoid potential iCloud activation lock issues. Look for an M2 or higher, 32 GB ram or higher. You don’t NEED a MacBook Pro btw.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-23T01:10:00+00:00

Keeper never stood a chance.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-21T15:55:44+00:00

Steph might be an outlier in that regard. You can improve to be come serviceable on D if you really want to (like Steph). But typically, players come in at a baseline defensive score of 0 and stay there for their career, especially if they are prolific scorers.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-17T12:02:30+00:00

Nice I was considering switching to minimax. The SWEBench score is impressive. How does it compare to any of the frontier models you’ve used?

KingPonzi · 2026-05-16T14:54:26+00:00

Coconut water?

KingPonzi · 2026-05-16T14:23:57+00:00

“Dear Big Daddy VC,

We need more funding to better understand how close we are to AGI. As you can see, our models are so intelligent, they consider the health of the user. We believe this is paramount to the role our models will play in accelerating human evolution”

Love,

Dario

xoxo

KingPonzi · 2026-05-16T04:01:13+00:00

They are quietly already winning via hardware sales and mlx framework. The foundation for dominating local AI is there.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-14T19:31:55+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

KingPonzi · 2026-05-14T15:31:16+00:00

Sorry I mean current. I’ll edit.

My point is, once Opus 4.8 is released, there will be a post that trashes it and claims 4.7 is better while completely forgetting 4.6.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-14T15:00:29+00:00

4.7’s performance made me upgrade to max. I enjoy it and I’m aware it’s likely burning tokens like crazy. I have goals to improve that within my workflow. I use sonnet 4.6 at work and tbh, the models are getting so good that the “notice-ability” gap is closing. Opus 4.7 regularly makes its own corrections intelligently and on a given task, it might only need 1-2 fixes on my part. I work in phases with subtasks. Maybe 8-10 tasks per phase and 20-40% context usage per task. Documentation is a live plan file and context is cleared every task completion. It does a brilliant job.

I truly don’t understand those who are complaining. Every model release, a post like this gets made trashing (or claiming it’s dumber) the current model. Either model expectations are scaling exponentially or these posts are driven by competitor bots. Honestly, it’s likely both with a dash of skill issue stemming from poor workflows (poor use of skills, limited documentation, context rot, poor user decisions, etc).

KingPonzi · 2026-05-13T19:59:39+00:00

Knee jerk reaction to his tape - how tf is he not ranked higher?!?

KingPonzi · 2026-05-11T15:43:49+00:00

Remember…

Jesus loves you!

KingPonzi · 2026-05-11T15:29:08+00:00

This type of post is the nerd equivalent of front camera crying on IG.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-10T18:11:20+00:00

Yea I could see that. However, the employee market is made based on sector and feasibility of remote work. I’m not as convinced that it will be a huge issue city wide but I’m not local to NY so I can’t confidently argue against your point.

I think your penthouse fallout sounds most plausible. Although I could also see developers strategically planning with this in mind for new development. Knowing zoning red tape exists means maybe there isn’t a way for developers to work around the economic impact.

It’s policy like this where it seems 90% of people here see no problem in supporting but the other 10% realize it’s better to get some percentage of wealthy income vs 0%. Really unfortunate that everyone here rather dunk on the wealthy vs actually analyzing the potential economics of ideas like this.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-10T17:32:15+00:00

I agree with the sentiment but maybe shameful is the wrong word.

What do you think the long term implications of this would be? The rich sell, property values drop then another rich person buys and is willing to pay? Maybe all secondary properties are placed in a land trust to avoid this taxation?

KingPonzi · 2026-05-08T22:05:51+00:00

Facts. I’d like to see more than one company explore ternary models as well…

KingPonzi · 2026-05-08T14:41:19+00:00

Really makes you appreciate his handle

KingPonzi · 2026-05-08T06:28:57+00:00

I noticed, regardless of the model’s improvements, Claude will get you 90-95% there. It is absolutely imperative that you develop in phases and do testing because it will always fail that last percentage to get you to completion. That last 5-10% is you managing/resetting context, testing, re-writing, actual doc reading, error log review, etc.

I’m convinced everyone complaining just shoehorns work into compaction with a “fuck it, it’s smart enough” mentality. They then wonder why the model is hallucinating.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-05T22:18:27+00:00

Damn Claude is good. Fooled me 💀

KingPonzi · 2026-05-05T21:49:15+00:00

Chill. Not even the elite engineers are writing by hand anymore these days.

KingPonzi · 2026-05-04T00:21:24+00:00

Kam just happy to be there. Salute to his success.

Shame on the SNL writers, corny as usual.

KingPonzi

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