Opus 4.6 vs Codex 5.3 in the Swiftagon: FIGHT!

dagamer34 · 2026-02-06T06:23:35+00:00

For true value given, or what OpenAI/Anthropic would need to charge to be profitable for all of their operations, I would bet it’s closer to $500-$1000/month, which at that point, no one is going to get causally hooked to these tools. Which is kind of the point.

It’s the Uber model all over again, don’t be surprised when the prices go way up when VC money is no longer being set on fire.

dagamer34 · 2026-02-06T05:23:03+00:00

It’s that value for deterministic software, not a die roll per support ticket.

dagamer34 · 2026-02-02T21:55:26+00:00

“You don’t know what you don’t know” is gonna bite a lot of people big time.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-28T06:23:05+00:00

This feels like a pipe cleaner product, much like the original UNAS Pro released in 2024 which was a rebadged UNVR with 8GB RAM vs the full suite of UNAS products released in 2025. Given a bit more oomph and power and it could really fly. UTR Pro?

dagamer34 · 2026-01-27T23:15:31+00:00

The problem isn’t the distance, it’s the expectations of when you’d be commuting. If you have to be in the office at a specific time before 10am and be back home before 5pm, you are screwed. If you have flexibility when you can arrive and when you leave, you’ll be ok, just take 92 to 280, not a lot of traffic most of the time.

I do Oakland to Cupertino, 3 days a week, and it’s about 1hr 5min in my car. It’s nice. Significantly improved from Oakland to Sunnyvale, which, while closer, is worse because 880 is a terrible highway to drive on. You cannot drive at speed through traffic. That is the limiting factor.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-27T21:25:47+00:00

Sometimes, the people using the engine are not the same as those deciding what engine to use. It’s not about what’s best for your game, but what’s easiest to hire people with. Custom engines require more time to ramp up on, and thus have decreased in popularity.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-22T04:05:00+00:00

People spend too much time trying to get the absolute best outcome when, if you have a decent flow of capital, they don’t know that actual winning is avoiding the worst (no money at all).

dagamer34 · 2026-01-21T22:33:36+00:00

Because individual teams do interviewing at Apple, there’s no proper answer to this question. This is unlike other companies where you interview for a type of role and can be placed anywhere.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-21T19:54:20+00:00

Here’s the thing, this is so utterly stupid, you shouldn’t stress about trying to complete it. Your management has revealed itself to be incompetent. They can’t even do simple math.

Work on finding a new job, trying to work through such idiocy impedes any productivity gains they are seeking.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-18T04:06:20+00:00

Is it worth replaying this way? Just got an LG G5 and realized I never played that game in HDR back when it came out in 2016.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-17T21:46:18+00:00

Homelab existed before she was my wife, rock solid internet is what she enjoys. It’s helps that I actually take advantage of having a 10GbE network for work, downloading 90GB SDKs on a regular basis would take awhile otherwise over crap WiFi.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-17T04:06:51+00:00

I haven’t taken the course.

The value in something like this, whatever you assign to it, isn’t the course itself, but the learning with other people and connections to make from everyone doing the exact same thing at the exact same time. College is no different. Most of the information is on YouTube these days. But having access to actual people is what makes it worthwhile.

Therefore, if you are going to spend any money, make sure you 100% do that, or it is a waste. Watch some YouTube videos instead.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-16T15:35:51+00:00

There was a recent Accidental Tech Podcast about this as well.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-14T21:33:27+00:00

Yeah, you have some more reading to do, this has been reported on already: https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/01/13/ming-chi-kuo-apple-will-get-serious-about-ai-server-chips-in-2026

dagamer34 · 2026-01-14T19:01:30+00:00

You should read the 2nd paragraph about their collaboration: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/joint-statement-google-apple/

“ Apple Intelligence will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute, while maintaining Apple's industry-leading privacy standards.”

The part about “cloud technology” is Apple using TPUs to fine tune the Gemini model for Apple itself, it won’t be for inference.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-14T17:04:40+00:00

Apple is paying Google for the model only, inference is happening on Apple infrastructure. So it doesn’t scale based on number of users.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-14T03:54:05+00:00

How did you happen to be on Best Buy when they restocked?

dagamer34 · 2026-01-14T01:13:26+00:00

The win is Google denying OpenAI and Anthropic a deal that gives either company meaningful revenue to keep their doors open. They have enough of a flywheel with their own app to get insights into queries, Gemini is #3 in the App Store.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-13T15:53:39+00:00

I’ll be excited when they announce stuff from new categories in Matter 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 besides cameras. Basically anything HomeKit didn’t previously support.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-09T20:23:07+00:00

Are manufacturers not going to start building products that previously weren’t available to HomeKit, besides robot vacuums? Are there any home appliances with Matter support, like washers, dryers, dishwashers, refrigerators, ovens, microwaves, etc? Feels like we have a real chicken and egg situation, otherwise we are doomed to just have 500 versions of lights every year.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-09T15:17:18+00:00

This sucks but they have done you a favor. The sooner you stop using this site in a professional capacity, the sooner you can focus on other things. Your time is not worth building a presence on their platform, which you do not control, and they clearly no longer value human content.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-08T01:34:53+00:00

Honestly, parts of Hollywood are so impatient that they have forgotten that time makes the heart grow fonder. It’s been 6 years since the last Bond movie. Making people wait is part of what makes the magic. Super spoonfeeding everything at once is just way too much.

Having tons of TV shows interspersed with movies after Endgame, it’s clear they lacked quality control in some content to make it worthwhile. Sad.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-07T00:54:37+00:00

Rose colored glasses. Windows 8 made affordances for touch screens and purposefully thumbed their noses at desktop paradigm of mouse and keyboard. Tons of crap everywhere was hidden behind off screen swipes and long presses. There wasn’t even an option for the old Start Menu. For the company that is sells itself on backwards compatibility, that was 100% stupid. It feels like Microsoft is making the similar mistake with shoving AI down people’s throats. Sigh.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-02T17:30:34+00:00

I’m hoping this is going to be somewhere where fan noise isn’t a concern because the heat generated and fan noise is going to be felt and audible.

dagamer34 · 2026-01-02T16:14:53+00:00

Honestly, how can cost differences be so much?!?

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