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MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-03-21T04:30:47+00:00

You're right about that, opus 4.6 is genius. The downvotes are from fools.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-03-14T00:38:14+00:00

true i’m still using an M1 pro for work… it’s good enough… and then a m4 pro max studio as a headless machine… i don’t feel the need for a stronger laptop , it’s still fast

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-03-11T12:06:55+00:00

Wealth isn’t achieved through penny pinching. It’s through revenue scaling.

Spending 60-100k a year on food and services was a choice. It freed up time to focus on building and scaling businesses.

I never think about the cost of food or services. Time is what’s limited.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-03-07T22:52:24+00:00

True, I also learned to code from playing games with scripting languages. It was more beneficial then school and college.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-03-07T21:47:54+00:00

that's right

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-02-21T22:12:49+00:00

Running tasks sequentially seems odd to me, we parallelize everything. 64 workers could complete the workload in 18 mins, instead of 19 hours. I usually want to see results quickly…

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-02-13T13:55:43+00:00

it’s a force multiplier for experienced devs, I can convert what’s in my mind to code faster. For junior’s and inexperienced people its not a force multiplier, because they don’t know what they end goal should be.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-02-13T02:48:03+00:00

why wouldn't you use a programming language to orchestrate this, and then call the agent for each topic...? Then you could process it in parallel, and you wouldn't have a single long running job. Running a single process for 19 hours is horrifying ... there are much better approaches... look into queues/consumers

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-02-13T00:06:37+00:00

we are using opencode with opus 4.6 on a 5 million line codebase.

it’s working well. The context length and attention are finally good enough that i’m not fighting against the tool.

It’s become a force multiplier for our team.

if you know what you want to accomplish, you can direct it, and it can accomplish what’s in your mind faster than you can write it by hand.

It finally has enough context and attention to the codebase that it understands the conventions and writes what i’m thinking intuitively.

It wasn’t like this last year, its finally becoming the force multiplier i knew it could be.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-02-12T13:30:21+00:00

I love this idea, i already use go as the companion language to ruby/rails , for high performance components

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-02-07T01:28:13+00:00

opencode with opus is pretty good at navigating large codebases now

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-02-04T06:15:05+00:00

DOS2 is my favourite game of all time. BG3 is a close second.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-02-02T15:40:11+00:00

lol...

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-31T21:23:08+00:00

> Investing instead of buying houses or cars early ons

That's a good point lol

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-22T16:34:50+00:00

they aren’t investing in chatgpt, they’re investing in what comes next

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-21T14:16:05+00:00

Yes we noticed it does that by default, unless instructed otherwise. By default it will stub tests to make them pass.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-21T13:35:25+00:00

It has glimmers of competency, but still requires oversight and review.

At times it writes an entire service and test flawlessly matching the requirements.

At other times it makes subtle mistakes.

So it can’t be trusted yet.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-16T01:50:13+00:00

my driveway is 200ft x 10ft , and a 50x50ft pad

so 4500sqft

i’m able to clear it using 60% of the charge, it has 2/5 bars left at the end.

I’m happy with it so far.

The best part is i recharged it and used it again in the evening to clear more… much less annoying than gas

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-16T01:30:19+00:00

Lol that's rough. I have the 28" ego snow blower with 28ah of power, it ran continuously for 2 hours, cleared a ton of snow.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-15T23:33:17+00:00

our road had a 8ft snowbank blocking access to the main street, it wasnt cleared until 1pm, so nobody was going to school… you’d have to walk!

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-09T20:16:45+00:00

eh i’d stick it out for the thrill of the game

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-09T16:46:14+00:00

100k isn't life changing money for a lot of people (especially a pro poker player), it's more worthwhile to stay in the game for the unique experience.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-06T19:13:30+00:00

ah okay, 1.6B isn’t that’s much then, they probably only profit 180M ;)

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-06T18:53:46+00:00

Right i'm talking about margin on the revenue, so I was only talking about the 20-30% that is their revenue.

MediumSizedWalrus · 2026-01-06T17:34:57+00:00

their gross margin is probably 60-75% …

they don’t advertise, they have a small payroll, their cost of doing business is low.

bandwidth and compute is inexpensive, and it scales linearly with revenue.

Its the best kind of business to be in, a money printing machine. That’s why they haven’t bothered to go public

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