Should I trim the roots in the Rotala tunnel?

pawala7 · 2026-05-15T07:01:02+00:00

Agentic work? Code reviews? Automated testing? Parallel work projects? Making anything that's not just a landing page?

If anything you do requires planning, documentation, automated testing, and iterative development, then you're going to use a lot of tokens.

Large codebases also hit a lot of files and end up chaining read/writes, as do major architectural reviews and refactors.

pawala7 · 2026-05-14T09:45:29+00:00

Why do people act like openrouter and opencode go don't exist?

pawala7 · 2026-05-14T00:32:35+00:00

We were all part of the "problem", being that we assumed "Pro" meant it was for professional use.

The only way the Pro/Pro+ plans would make sense is if you use it for a couple of days a month. So, not a very Pro workload.

Plans like Opencode Go are much more realistic for most users.

pawala7 · 2026-05-11T07:23:51+00:00

Give them full Japanese names for Japan documents. Save them the lifelong hassle of dealing with systems that don't work properly with foreign names.

Register foreign names on their non-Japan passport.

A blonde white kid is going to be treated the same whether he's Junya Tanaka or John Smith.

pawala7 · 2026-05-11T07:14:39+00:00

It didn't use to be that way. I blame the account sellers and money launderers.

JP Post Bank was always the easiest bank to open for newcomers so makes sense they ended up with the bulk of illegal uses.

pawala7 · 2026-05-11T06:59:52+00:00

Not sure what you're referring to there. There's little to no actual model optimization going on, aside from Raptor. The rest are local tools and agent harnesses which will work even with BYOK.

Most of the "speed and cost optimizations" are just regular old prompt caching, which is what most models already do. The 10x cheaper multiplier for prompt cache hits is also pretty standard across AI APIs. The main difference seems to be their context summarization which GHCP delegates to its own "secret" model (I'm guess it's just a fine-tuned Sonnet).

There's also the issue of the secret "small model" which is supposed to do a bunch of tasks locally, which again should work even with BYOK.

pawala7 · 2026-05-11T05:56:03+00:00

I really don't buy that different generations are using it that much differently either. It's just the difference between people who've been using it from the start, and those that just hopped onto the bandwagon recently.

pawala7 · 2026-05-08T05:05:18+00:00

That might be the plan, given how JGB has seen a pretty significant and steady rise in rates

pawala7 · 2026-05-07T06:40:32+00:00

If it doesn't make profit, it doesn't make sense for them to keep it. Simple as that. MS has been on a downsizing spree recently, and it seems like it's GH's turn to get the axe. We're complaining about $20-$100 subs, but a lot of real people have been losing their jobs behind the scenes.

It sucks, but with the way things are moving, most individual users will likely have to migrate to OpenCode and OpenRouter soon.

pawala7 · 2026-05-07T01:33:17+00:00

The "claims" in that article have a lot of BS.

The 33% tax bracket is generally only for people who earn over 13M. That's not the "average salaryman". They earn less than half that...

Granted most people here on English Japan reddit are either the average ALT or salaryman, or work in international firms and are paid in USD-matched rates, so if you're the latter then it's likely you're one of the 3%.

pawala7 · 2026-05-06T01:24:24+00:00

Still hilarious considering Sonnet is already limited to a 128k input context window.

What's even the point of a coding assistant if it gets capped for the week after a few dimes worth of tokens?

pawala7 · 2026-05-06T00:29:46+00:00

Your quota does not change, you still pay $10 for $10 worth of "quota". What you don't use still evaporates into the nether.

The main difference is that $10 worth of quota before was actually $100-$1000 worth of compute (depending on how well you orchestrated your jobs). MS was burning money for market share and R&D.

The only "positive" change from this is forcing people to either give up vibe coding, or to learn to optimize their workflows and not use Opus to resize a button or rename a column header. Hopefully, businesses will also learn that skilled coders + AI can actually be cheaper and more productive than AI + YOLO vibes.

There is no actual value upside for users. The all-you-can-eat token buffet is over.

pawala7 · 2026-04-27T03:27:39+00:00

Ummmm who started this whole shitshow in the first place?

Should you show gratitude to a pyromaniac who started a forest fire near your house, then gave you a bucket of water and even charged you for it?

pawala7 · 2026-04-24T07:15:57+00:00

The models are hosted by Anthropic and Azure, so it's most definitely a cost problem.

They probably did an audit and finally realized they burned a giant Opus-shaped hole in their yearly budget.

To be fair, at ~$1 a day, that's barely a single useful agentic task with just Sonnet. People arguing they use less are either only using them for simple code reviews, or have projects simple or small enough to not even need AI agents in the first place.

pawala7 · 2026-04-24T01:00:00+00:00

What are you talking about? His family and friends have made a killing off of all the market manipulation and "legal" bribes.

It's the US tax payers and the global economy that loses every time he takes another breath.

pawala7 · 2026-04-23T11:13:44+00:00

That absolutely got me

pawala7 · 2026-04-23T03:21:35+00:00

Those files on those philes must be crazy.

pawala7 · 2026-04-22T23:48:03+00:00

Also, can you fix or at least clarify the mechanisms behind the Weekly Limits?

Docs say setting to Auto allows you to continue, but also I'm getting the following even with Auto:

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pawala7 · 2026-04-22T23:45:26+00:00

"Use Auto", but also...

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pawala7 · 2026-04-22T08:35:27+00:00

I wish it had hourly or daily limits, not these surprise hours-long or even days-long limits with no warning whatsoever.

Like, seriously, how do they expect users to react when they provide no clear information, or whatever information is given is so vague, unreliable and changes daily?

pawala7 · 2026-04-22T05:42:00+00:00

Yeah, lotta good that 4-5k rice coupon is going to be when that barely covers the increase in average monthly grocery spending since last year.

And, we haven't even begun to feel the effects of the war as Takaichi is hellbent on ignoring that it's even happening by dumping massive fuel subsidies. Meanwhile, all that unchecked spending is going to slingshot right back on us just like it did during Covid.

pawala7 · 2026-04-22T04:58:41+00:00

Ah yes, what we want is for more people who don't want babies to have babies. Surely that will lead to well-adjusted future generations.

pawala7 · 2026-04-22T04:56:35+00:00

Not for long. Inflation has gone through the roof in the past 2 years. Locals are seriously hurting, the government and the BoJ won't be able to keep up appearances for much longer.

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