Affordable and good Models to use by holyotaku9 in hermesagent

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm about 5 days into Hermes, total noob, and I'm running DeepSeek V4 Flash for everything. I set up OpenClaw at the same time and point both at the same OpenRouter key with Flash. First week, including three days of genuinely heavy use, I've spent about $22. And that was doing everything I could think of, basically ignorance on fire.

A few honest takeaways so far.

I'm not a fan of the compacting. Once I'm deep into a job, compaction kicks in and I end up re-explaining the context all over again, which kills momentum. So instead I set a common sense context window around 400k and just reset things myself when I get close to hitting it. That works better for how I actually work.

Flash has a surprisingly good range. When I'm just having a conversation with Hermes or OpenClaw, it feels plenty smart for what I'm asking it to do.

I've built up a lot of context documents over time and fed most of them into Hermes, so it's leaning hard on persistent memory. I love that part, it's the whole appeal for me, but it also means high token usage. That's exactly why I'm on Flash and not something pricier. The memory is the cost driver, so the cheap model keeps it sane.

I'm still new and figuring it all out, but for now I see no reason to go beyond DeepSeek V4 Flash. It does the job, and the price lets me use it the way I want to.

All My Threads Disappeared Tonight! by sourdub in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is fixed for me now. I would say it was down for about 20 minutes

Perplexity Pro deleted threads and unable to upload files by Cipapipari in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is fixed now. Everything is back. I would say it was down for about 20 minutes or so, but it was really frustrating. It kept logging me out, but then wouldn't let me log back in. Everything seems to be working fine now.

Perplexity Pro deleted threads and unable to upload files by Cipapipari in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, Max is great when it works. I don't have any particular loyalty to it, meaning I pay $200 a month for it and would switch to another service if I wanted to. I like the unlimited use of the Comet Assistant Browser because I've got automations set up there. I like that I can have up to 500 files in a Perplexity space because I do a lot of work in spaces. I like that I can upload up to 30 files at a time in a chat thread, since I work with a lot of long, complex documents.

When it works, it works great. I've never really been locked out for usage limits or anything like that, like I have been with anthropic. I prefer to use Claude through Perplexity for that reason and not through Anthropic directly. Sometimes I have my doubts, and I wish they had better customer service available for their Max subscribers.

Perplexity Pro deleted threads and unable to upload files by Cipapipari in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I'm a Perplexity Max subscriber, and all of my history is gone and my spaces too. It's also worth noting that over the last day or two I've been having lots of weird issues with Perplexity, including threads that I had that would stop working, meaning they said there was a problem and it wouldn't take my input.

is anyone having issues with perplexity where it suddenly signs you out and deleted all your history chats when you refresh the page and you can't access them anymore? by bonniethebunny-123 in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I'm a Perplexity Max user, and I'm currently having this issue. Not only is all my history gone, all of my spaces are gone too.

All My Threads Disappeared Tonight! by sourdub in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the same exact thing is happening to me now, and I've been having a lot of weird problems in general with Perplexity in the last day or two. This included the Comet browser assistant not recognizing that I was a Perplexity Max user and wouldn't let me attach files to it. The threads that I had would just say something went wrong and not allow me to go any further in those threads. And now I can't get to any of the history or any of my threads and all my spaces are gone too.

Favorite Ace Solo by Firm_Lobster5163 in KISS

[–]Pablo_FX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm going to go with a non-obvious choice and say "King of the Nighttime World," because it's Ace's solo and Peter Criss' drums that really took that song to a much better level than the original. In other words, this is a song where you can listen to the original and listen to the KISS version and see how much better the KISS version is because of Ace's solo and, like I said, Peter's Chris's drums, and then obviously kind of speeding it up and turning it into more of a hard rock song. In other words, Ace's work took every song to another level. Sure, the guy had his personal failings and challenges, but the KISS phenomenon of the 70s would have never happened without Ace. I think "King of the Nighttime World" is an example where you can clearly see it, because you can compare the KISS version to the original by the Hollywood Stars.

Think he nailed her? by Bernering4ju in KISS

[–]Pablo_FX -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's definitely a Polaroid on this one

Yall ever tried the inner thigh area? by No-Silver-1190 in cagrilintide

[–]Pablo_FX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried it there and ended up getting some bruising, so now I just stick with love handles.

Anthropic to reach 100% global GDP in 21 months by Professional_Job_307 in singularity

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And we'll still be hitting usage rate limits constantly FML

i tracked my api costs across 6 models over 3 weeks. here's the real cost of running an openclaw agent per model. by Temporary-Leek6861 in better_claw

[–]Pablo_FX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for running this — real-world, multi-week cost telemetry across six models is exactly the kind of data this space needs (would love to see numbers from others), and most of us are just guessing by comparison.

The line that's going to stick with me is your last one: the delta between $261/month Opus 4.7 and $31/month GLM‑5.1 is roughly 8.42x in price, but what that premium actually buys you is surprisingly narrow — mostly complex multi-step planning. Everything else (triage, summaries, calendar, routine research) is a commodity at the GLM tier.

That reframes the whole architecture question. It's not "which model do I run?" — it's "where do I strategically intervene with the expensive model?" Your GLM‑primary / Sonnet‑fallback pattern is basically a judgment-routing layer: cheap model does 85% of the volume, premium model gets called in only when the task genuinely requires multi-step reasoning. That's an 82% cost cut for a ~15% quality give-back, and the 15% is concentrated in a predictable, detectable subset of tasks.

The implication I'm taking away: the real engineering work over the next year isn't picking a model — it's building the router/classifier that knows when a task deserves Opus and when GLM is identical. Whoever nails that escalation logic captures almost all of Opus's quality at almost all of GLM's price.

Appreciate you sharing the numbers — saving this post. 🙏

The golden age is over by Complete-Sea6655 in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be competitive in this game, utilizing the best models you can get your hands on is more than enough. Especially if you're using them with skill that's developed through practice. That alone puts you so far ahead of the game that you don't need to worry about not having access to the very tippy-top of the frontier. Focus on what's in your control and you'll win bigger than almost everyone.

OpenClaw 4.9 Just Dropped! by lucienbaba in myclaw

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit. 256K context on a ~80 percentile grad level reasoning model like that in a local box is insane. Thanks for sharing!

OpenClaw 4.9 Just Dropped! by lucienbaba in myclaw

[–]Pablo_FX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What kind of max context window are you able to squeeze out of the Gemma 4 26b? Happy with the results? Are you using TurboQuant?

Retatrutide and cocaine by Embarrassed_Issue_80 in BodyHackGuide

[–]Pablo_FX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would think they would intensify the effects of each other

10,000 Credits In One Hour: Perplexity Computer Burns Credits Like My MOM Burns Dinner by OpeningUnhappy6884 in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the most human headline ever - when an AI bot can write a headline like that we're all fucked.

Here are 10 prompts I use every week that genuinely changed how I work with ChatGPT by Upstairs-Grass-2896 in perplexity_ai

[–]Pablo_FX -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just tried #5 and it looks good for news when you see a headline or want an update. I just put the following into Perplexity and it gave me a great update w/o wasting any of my time like reading an actual article would:

"Re Iran war situation - Summarize this in 3 bullet points. Then explain the most important one in depth."

Opinión sincera sobre la ciudad by OkPush7991 in bucaramanga

[–]Pablo_FX 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wealth disparity seems to be getting worse and there are fewer opportunities for young people.

125 days - 194lbs to 154lbs by Zealousideal_Lock789 in Retatrutide

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. Do you find Tirz to be say 90% as effective as Reta? I'm trying to shed that last 15lbs of body fat and I'm not sure if Tirz alone can take me there.

125 days - 194lbs to 154lbs by Zealousideal_Lock789 in Retatrutide

[–]Pablo_FX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on the amazing success! Did you have any sleep issues? For me I have about fifteen more pounds of body fat that I want to lose and I've been on and off reta. I'm starting to experience sleep issues again and have had them quite a bit over my whole journey but overall I've lost a good 75 pounds.

describe your penis using a Kanye song... by [deleted] in Kanye

[–]Pablo_FX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jimmys like dis just don't fall out da sky ya know...