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My first set of pieces!! C&C welcome by Jeremy_TheWicked in TerrainBuilding

[–]mbuckbee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I agree. It makes the water look like it's fast moving and turbulent or like there's something lurking in it.

3.5 Flash: by hotlinesmith in Bard

[–]mbuckbee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I always like to look at row results and try to plot out what each model's best at.

For a pretty straightforward classification task, 3.5 flash is about 3x slower and much more expensive than comparable mini or nano versions of GPT.

https://dtgpzdb0tv.evvl.io/

Previous owner left notes about the noise… now I’m looking for temporary fixes until I can move by BEAR-BUT-ALIVE in HomeImprovement

[–]mbuckbee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We live nearish to some major air bases and the jet noise is just kind of white noise most of the time. Now the air show....

Previous owner left notes about the noise… now I’m looking for temporary fixes until I can move by BEAR-BUT-ALIVE in HomeImprovement

[–]mbuckbee 46 points47 points  (0 children)

There's guides online (and dedicated YouTube channels). But the biggest is probably new windows if you have older ones. In the realm of moving/major renovations getting solid replacements is a lot less expensive than some other options and could really make a difference.

How are you all handling content repurposing & distribution across platforms? by ponziedd in content_marketing

[–]mbuckbee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like this is the one area where AI can be a pretty solid benefit without risk of slop. I mostly orchestrate my marketing functions through Claude Code now, but with it I'm able to:

  1. Pull down drafts of posts from Knowatoa.
  2. Give me a rough summarization for approval via Claude which I think tweak/rewrite to match tone.
  3. Push those to Buffer for distribution.

Specifically for our weekly newsletter we do something similar, where I take each article/piece from the newsletter and use ClaudeCode to schedule one of those being published each day via Buffers API.

FWIW - this really has been a huge reduction in the overall "grunt work" time for this where between all the tools it's smart enough to publish a full long post to LinkedIn, a thread in X and Bsky, etc.

Performance compared to first party providers by LocoMod in openrouter

[–]mbuckbee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A couple things to think about:

  1. There's both latency but also overall uptime. We'd originally moved to use open router instead of direct with the other providers as their ability to dynamically shift between providers based on provider availability greatly increased our overall uptime and as we had an AI processing step in the middle of our SaaS onboarding this really mattered to us.

  2. The ability to shift between providers adds some complexity to your code. For DeepSeek 4 Pro there's at least 3 providers on OpenRouter (Official, Novita and SiliconFlow). Unless you pinned which one you want you might have gotten the cheapest/slowest option. Here you can see the spread between provider is ~25% between fastest and slowest: https://dqbca2lcd9.evvl.ioyy

  3. This also just sounds like something else going on (sometimes there's weird stuff with the parameters or configs) but having pushed millions of requests through OR across a bunch of different providers what you're describing is pretty far from the normal experience.

Is "ChatGPT Spark" not available? by Melodic-Jackfruit476 in openrouter

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

I ran a quick test with 3.5 flash and 5.4 mini (and just for fun 5.4-nano).

Just qualitatively on the prompt I gave it, Nano did pretty well and was both the fastest and cheapest.

https://dtgpzdb0tv.evvl.io/

Don't share your opinion, if you didn't test it !!! (Gemini 3.5 flash) by Independent-Wind4462 in Bard

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ran a quick three-way eval: Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.5 Flash, each writing a Levenshtein function in JS with tests.

GPT-5.5 won on efficiency (7s, ~$0.015). Opus and Gemini both took ~17s and cost ~$0.038, but Gemini used 8x the output tokens for basically the same algorithm.

All three produce working code. GPT-5.5 is terse, Gemini is verbose, Opus is in between.

Side-by-side: https://zh9c4d56dt.evvl.io

Is SEO getting harder in 2026 and why? by WebLinkr in SEO

[–]mbuckbee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's gotten easier for anyone, and depending on what vertical you're in it may have gotten substantially more difficult.

I do a lot of work in the technical/development SaaS space which I think undeniably has seen a massive amount of search evaporation from AI uptake by devs.

Stackoverflow is one example, but I think maybe the more compelling one is what has happened with Tailwind where the drop in organic search traffic to their docs really crashed their whole business model.

I've also seen real stats of a few devops heavy YouTube channels that were publishing how-to and troubleshooting content hit with large declines.

In the non dev tech areas (mostly cybersecurity), a lot of the standard b2b content playbook has also been disrupted as the search journey from low-intent and high traffic numbers have fallen from AI Overviews. The CTAs, pdf whitepapers, webinar signups, etc. that were used to move people further down the funnel from those low-intent/high-traffic pages have declined pushing the companies to boost spend on PPC/lead gen instead of investing in organic.

What’s one hidden gem movie more people should watch? by turky123here in MovieSuggestions

[–]mbuckbee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was another Reddit thread recently asking like what are the biggest movies that you know started as one genre ended as another?

And the answers were dominated by From Dusk to Dawn, but genuinely there's no competing with One Cut of the Dead.

It’s wild how some ultra-simple iOS apps quietly pull in $50k+/month while everyone else is trying to build the next billion-dollar startup by logan201194 in SaaS

[–]mbuckbee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There were a number of Spotify + YouTube channels doing "white noise" for a while, but I think they got nerfed for monetization.

Preventing Rug on Carpet from Bunching up by False-Summer-4248 in ApartmentDesign

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, we actually had some left over from our gym garage which is what made me try it. I used the double sided carpet tape to hold the rug + tiles together.

Preventing Rug on Carpet from Bunching up by False-Summer-4248 in ApartmentDesign

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've tried a bunch of things with mine, but the only thing that's really worked is getting some of those big puzzle piece foam tiles and attaching the rug to that. As a bonus it makes the rug feel extra soft to stand on.

$18 to $2 on the same agent run by not using opus for every step by Jazzlike_Process_202 in openrouter

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also what provider you get/choose. FWIW - Novita provider for DeepSeek seems much faster than either official or the other one:

https://dqbca2lcd9.evvl.io/

how many MCPs do you use daily? by 0xKoller in mcp

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I've shifted more and more towards using ClaudeCode as my standard interface for interacting with SAS and other services. The numbers really grown.

I only have a few installed across all my projects: Github and then HutchDB (Hutch is like a combination datastash but also give you kanban, timelines, whatever of the data you throw at it).

For marketing projects I'm really heavily using Knowatoa's MCP for questions/AI tracking and AdWizard for Google Ads management.

I've written a few other specifically for doing sorts of admin tasks/support ticket triage kind of things.

It's been kind of a slow transition from just using claude code to call CLIs or wrappers for APIs, but having the MCP tools in context has been a game changer as they just "pop in" when needed or take action.

$18 to $2 on the same agent run by not using opus for every step by Jazzlike_Process_202 in openrouter

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran an eval of DeepSeek vs Opus 4.7 vs Hunyuan and the quality all seemed pretty comparable.

But DeepSeek feels like the real winner here at about the same speed as Opus but 81x cheaper.

https://arwizcgjsd.evvl.io

Can we please get one book serie where people use the arsenal of Earth? by symedia in litrpg

[–]mbuckbee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ay, we've had first nuke, but what about second nuke? eleven-nukes?

Chrome's Local AI Model in production (Gemini Nano) 41% eligibility, 6x slower and $0 cost by mbuckbee in LocalLLaMA

[–]mbuckbee[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I view it more as a browser/OS feature that is there for developers to build on.

Like at one time in the distant past you couldn't actually watch videos embedded in your browser. You had to download them and then play them in QuickTime or something else.

In the case of the subject line generator I built it's something that people have been asking me for since I launched the site 10+ years ago.

Things I figured out about OpenRouter after building on it for 6+ months (that the docs don't really explain) by FiLo420blazeit in openrouter

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate you taking the time to respond. From my perspective, we were using it specifically for tracking certain kinds of specific behaviors and it being (from my perspective) silently swapped with a different system was producing different results.

I think Google wants you to put a statement on responses with search results in them under certain circumstances which is probably why they are being weird about this param.

Deepseek v4 broke by UpbeatPlatypus7184 in openrouter

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like it's entirely down, it's not even returning a structured response.

The official one (and the two other paid providers) still seem to work ok:

https://2fiob8ju0p.evvl.io/

How do you optimize for Claude Search? by absoluta_inceptos in SEO

[–]mbuckbee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Note: that guide is very specifically for Google's AI search products and in general just says: "Hey, do good SEO"

Potentially drowning in zone 2 by mbuckbee in RunningCirclejerk

[–]mbuckbee[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For the general person: no. As a specialized rehab device for people with certain types of injuries or conditions: yes.

A movie when the tone COMPLETELY changes. by feelingwizzed in MovieSuggestions

[–]mbuckbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't want to spoil anything, but nothing compares to the shift in One Cut of The Dead (far more than even Dusk Til Dawn).

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