> If you as a reviewer spots things after the implementation rather in the discussion beforehand, that ends up being on both of you, instead of just the implementer who tried to move along to finish the thing

This is accurate, but it's still an important check in the communication loop. It's not all that uncommon for two engineers to discuss a problem, and leave the discussion with completely different mental models of the solution.

If the benchmark has a correct answer, the benchmark itself is an objective measure (but of what?). The "of what" may well be subjective

> Computers aren’t relaxing or fun to use

[citation needed]

> I am certainly not saying people should “spend more money,” more like the Claude Code access in the Pro plan seems kind of like false advertising

Its particularly noticeable when for a long time you could work an 8 hour day in codex on ChatGPT´s $20/month plan (though they too started tightening the screws a couple of weeks back)

> The history of aspartame and the FDA is contentious and sort of infuriating

Is it? They've been dealing with conspiracy theorists on this topic for more than half a century (it was initially approved as a tabletop sweetener back in 1974), including extensive public hearings in the 1980s. There is no more thoroughly studied or litigated food additive in the department's history.

There are other advantages versus orbital habitats, not least that your station doesn't have to be a pressure vessel - equal pressure within and without makes big structures a lot simpler.

The atmosphere would also block the majority of radiation, which is a huge concern for proposed orbital or Martian settlements.

All right, but if outside is one atmosphere of sulfur dioxide, you still don't want any air leaks.

Does the atmosphere itself track the ground? I'd expect the slow rotation to drive persistent winds, potentially keeping weather systems somewhat tidal-locked as well

> For context, for an agent we're working on, we're using 5-mini, which is $2/1m tokens. This is $0.30/1m tokens. And it's Opus 4.6 level - this can't be real.

It's doesn't seem all that out there compared to the other Chinese model price/performance? Kimi2.6 is cheaper even than this, and is pretty close in performance

Kimi is indeed somewhat cheap for frontier-level intelligence, but still is $4-5 per mm tokens. Deep Seek is at least an order of magnitude cheaper.

Oh, right you are. I misread where the decimal place was in the Deepseek pricing. That is incredibly cheap

> These workers have a better gig that 99% of Americans

Given that the cited 10% includes the folks who have to drive 2 hours each way to cook/clean in the campus kitchens... not sure that they do. Meta isn't all software engineers, by a long shot

They don't have 80k programmers. That's total staff