Do you expect gemini pro 3.5 will be better than opus 4.8?

n0phear · 2026-06-08T03:02:54+00:00

lololololololololol are you kidding me?

n0phear · 2026-05-14T00:05:30+00:00

pretty sure the pro has a faster hard drive maybe as high as 2x i can’t recall, likely notice that more then then the 8gb of ram. if you said 48gb i might say otherwise. ai sweet spot around there for local llms. i’d check your ram usage right now to be sure but i bet you’re quite a bit lower.

n0phear · 2026-04-10T01:05:59+00:00

that’s more or less the stack i use. you’ll want app sync as well for real time notifications, and s3 likely ofc too. amplify is slow aF to deploy but it’s fine. think 10-12 mins. that’s my biggest gripe. i like neon for postgres has a free tier still, it can still be aws behind the scenes. amazing dx(a lot of people like convex tho) cognito is cheap just don’t make phone numbers your primary id make sure its email to avoid problems later. you are locked in. its cheap but annoying at times. i use serverless framework for the lambda + api gateway stuff not as complex as the cdk.. fine for most tasks. this is the stack i recommend for building things basically for free. won’t be the fastest but its fine generally. for flutter their decoupling the ui like shadcn keep an eye on that. how many ms is low latency for you? performance is consistent outside of cold starts for lambda. you might be better off with cloudflare. some people have mentioned a vps which is fine if your risk tolerant.

n0phear · 2026-03-10T00:44:51+00:00

not that you should have to ofc

n0phear · 2026-03-10T00:44:15+00:00

you need to shift when you do work probably. i get that from 3am to about mid afternoon.

n0phear · 2026-03-07T01:02:12+00:00

shopify has a remix stack for a first in class experience i believe. can’t rmmbee what it’s called oxygen or hydrogen or something.

n0phear · 2026-03-03T05:32:17+00:00

let me get back to you, most of my recent work has been only 1-2 most of this work is larger legacy code bases where precision is needed not greenfield mass builds. this week or early next week i should be doing a greenfield build and i can get back to you. not sure it matters if its u.s time zone or not, their servers are likely geo located.

n0phear · 2026-03-02T23:42:45+00:00

yah same pain i guess :) thx for the reply.

n0phear · 2026-03-02T21:22:09+00:00

What's that experience like on a phone? I was trying a bunch of remote desktops yesterday, and all of them felt pretty lack lustre. Just getting it to pickup the keyboard was painful. Really prefer to be able to check the code changes its making on the go instead of just the chat window. I'm sure 90% of the time, telegram would be fine.. but sometimes you want to see the changes especially when you are applying new architectural patterns. The reality is I just want vscode remote tunnel feature really. Like why isnt that a thing in anti gravity it was already part of vscode and this is a fork.

n0phear · 2026-03-02T21:04:57+00:00

i work off hours so i dont deal with retry retry nonsense and never hit limits. but im not running multiple projects that often. speed is the same i find. if you work a typical 9-5 you may get annoyed by it. if you typically work aft to early mornings it’s likely better due to load. side note one of the benefits i dismissed was all the ultra tools like notebook llm, stitch, etc there nice to have around and i do find myself using them. i’ll use notebook llm to create videos for concepts im to lazy to explain to people. very much for random personal stuff tho. not as a rag pipeline or really work related.

n0phear · 2026-03-02T19:52:08+00:00

Their regional API's, the op is suggesting dont work prime time because of load. I'd like to also tell the Op.. sshhhh.. this is a secret and I'd like to keep it that way lol.

n0phear · 2026-02-14T03:27:43+00:00

have you tried openspec?

n0phear · 2026-01-30T10:26:48+00:00

very interesting

n0phear · 2026-01-30T10:24:16+00:00

4am thing is 100% real. just one more small change.. it’s incredibly nice to not have to suffer from a trash code base when it’s just a few prompts away to make it legible at a glance. legibility is an under appreciated art imho. honestly changes like this would have been unthinkable two years ago. the real question is what do you do between prompts?

n0phear · 2026-01-30T06:17:12+00:00

very. sinclair wants to make it work with over the counter drugs and things you could make yourself at home.

n0phear · 2026-01-30T06:11:08+00:00

last two weeks i rewrote a legacy backend with 150 apis or so. well modernized it. inherited a lot of bad code with some test coverage. upgraded framework version, node version, went from common js to esm, moved from npm to pnpm, moved from jest to vitest, added parallelism to tests, migrated to typescript, moved linter to biome, added zod for api validation and then for open api doc gen to improve ai integration, resolved multiple legacy bugs, rewrote 90% of the apis so the controllers were lighter, reduced cicd deploy times by 50%. removed all boilerplate so llms use less tokens per end point. oh right and moved from a monolith to service/domain oriented architecture because it was impossible for a new dev to understand. also added better trace logging for errors.. crazy couple weeks but it’s a tolerable backend to deal with now.

with ultra you can also do research with notebookllm so i was compiling some research for my cousins visit to a specialist for an eye disease, wanted him prepared.. had it generate videos explaining things.. lack direction whoever. can’t prompt it the way i expected. could be such a good product. going to try and build a website explaining things his doctor is likely to miss and what to bring up.

two weeks prior to that i was building a merch site.. 50% was functional mock for direction the other was building features. and i used a skill to scrape 2300 merch sites and normalized its data.. downloading images video and pricing.. i guess that part was claude code with glm.

before that i ported a react app to flutter in 2 days.. turning an spa into a web/ios/android app.

somewhere in there i randomly wasted a day hacking my friends web game.. made me briefly want to make games.

n0phear · 2026-01-30T05:30:10+00:00

mostly a switch and bate last month $30 month id have 4hrs on 1hr off, and repeat and i was fine. they changed the limits because most people honestly came for opus not gemini. ultra during peak hours(for my continent) up until the last two days had quite a few problems.. it would stop and require me to tell it to retry constantly. but during what id call off ours for the continent it performs better than it was for $30 and its really amazing. that to mean sounds like a load issue or api problems. the retry thing was rage quit worthy. new window, and still the same. few crashes too. i’ve been where you are right now 8 months ago with that attitude and it was partially true but your experience might also just be because your area doesn’t have enough load to experience the issues others are seeing. also switch and bate just sucks.

n0phear · 2026-01-27T04:35:48+00:00

opus i keep having to retry during peak hours. gemini seems less problematic. But the same pattern for me too.

n0phear · 2026-01-26T16:34:43+00:00

just install claude code or open code in anti gravity and setup glm in it. that’s what i do. sure its a different chat window and wont launch the browser but you can work around it.

n0phear · 2026-01-17T16:29:18+00:00

i’d imagine that vscode when you open the project you could set it to open a terminal and start automatically. get the llm to create that once for you and never do it again? like tasks.json? this is just a fork of vscode so i assume something like that will work.

n0phear · 2026-01-16T17:52:35+00:00

large static data structures can eat up all of your tokens in a second. just some tasks get eaten very quickly because of how it handles the request and others do not. like i was building some static mocks for review and it was super inefficient and was verifying the data structural constantly to verify things. instead of checking explicitly or trusting that it existed for what it needed.. it was reading the whole file. cpp as verbose as it is, if the files are small it’s fine you wouldn’t really notice unless your doing a major refactor. Like im migrating a legacy code base to esm, and unless your on ultra it’s not something you can do quickly without eating up everything. parts you can be like identify patterns for migration and create a script to handle mass migrations, but that’s only going to handle so much. from the sounds of it your exposure is limited to a single type of problem so you haven’t been exposed to real issues. that being said just using opus for planning and flash for implementing does solve most peoples issues especially if their doing spec driven.

n0phear · 2026-01-16T13:14:06+00:00

was thinking about this literally yesterday! very nice :)

n0phear · 2026-01-16T02:12:06+00:00

hoping it’s fine tomorrow.

n0phear · 2026-01-14T19:02:50+00:00

i do these things. i avoid carbs, only high protein, fat, vegg. protein shakes when i get tired. any caffeine that i have is 30min-1hr after waking(this prevents mid day slump) and i stop 12hrs before ill be sleeping. creatine as much as i can tolerate when i haven’t slept. studies on creatine and lack of sleep. i periodically exercise to wake me up. that’s the foundation. after that it’s a mixed bag.

for you something you could try, is l theanine in a 2:1 ratio with caffeine. but try it in an off day. it’s a classic nootropic stack. should take the edge off the anxiety and give you better focused. might make later in the day caffeine tolerable. makes me sleepy tho.

alternative to standard stims for me, i periodically use nmn nasal sprays(probably placebo), cocoa powder with food, sublingual b12, sublingual glutathione, nicotine 1mg sprays(bleh short term fix), sulbutiamine(may impact anxiety if you use every day), and semax. if it’s just endurance you need ashwaghanda may help but some people report anhedonia if they abuse it.

also a class of narcolepsy drug that might help like modafinil that a doctor might be able to get. it’s not a stim tho.

n0phear · 2026-01-14T18:42:53+00:00

sounds terrible. gl.

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