6 comments

  • bearjaws 4 hours ago
    Since its behind an account wall, I can't tell if they are saying that Opus made the clone for cheaper or that Opus failed? It appears that Fable did far more "work" based on output tokens.

    Aside: We should just ban Twitter links. Nobody should be required to make an account to view content on here.

    • shaewest 4 hours ago
      On the aside, where's the difference between someone posting a Twitter link and an Economist link? Both are locked behind a wall, whether it account-wall or pay-wall.
      • bearjaws 4 hours ago
        We can ban those too.
        • sourcecodeplz 3 hours ago
          if we would ban everything that is not 100%: free, ad-free, tracker free

          what would we be left to read? couple of snarky remarks and maybe 2-3 paragraph of coherent text.

          journalism is a job! money has to come from somewhere

          • kbelder 3 hours ago
            Well, restricting posts to those actually accessible isn't unreasonable. Allowing them is HN's worst policy, in my humble opinion.
      • CamperBob2 3 hours ago
        The Economist isn't owned by someone who cheats at video games, subverts the government, and thinks Nazi salutes are funny.
    • rpdillon 4 hours ago
      Yeah, I have to manually edit the URL to be xcancel instead every time. Maybe there's a grease monkey script around that handles this kind of thing. I can write one if not.

      Edit: going to try this out https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/531615-x-com-to-xcancel-co...

    • benj111 4 hours ago
      Same with medium. Why?
  • cadamsdotcom 3 hours ago
    I’m confused. The post is a long description of merging one branch into another in a clean way, done by agents, at a scale never seen before. Bravo.

    Does it do anything now that it didn’t before?

    Who’s this for?

    Why did it matter?

    Is the world better now?

    Unfortunately the post doesn’t discuss outcomes so I’m having a hard time seeing how the team’s $800 was best spent on this vs. some other priority.

  • escape_key 4 hours ago
  • jsnell 3 hours ago
    This reads like AI-generated slop, flagging.
  • kylehotchkiss 4 hours ago
    It's really unusual that developers would rather write behind a twitter authwalled link than to write to their own site and just tweet about it.

    If you can spend $800 on Fable in a day, you can launch a fantastic looking/performing personal site in 15 minutes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Perhaps Hacker News could ban this style of link to help encourage that?

    • sourcecodeplz 3 hours ago
      nowdays people get their reading on social media.

      social media, also started heavily demoting posts with external links.

      thus if you want reach, you need to post on platforms...

    • supriyo-biswas 3 hours ago
      But then you couldn’t engagement-farm like Twitter /s
      • hadlock 3 hours ago
        I guess if you enjoy engaging with an echo chamber
  • Jimmy0252 4 hours ago
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