Fine, I’ll try GLM 5.2 since it has arrived in my OpenCode subscription. I haven’t used it much, but GLM 5.1 hasn’t blown me away. If it really is that good, a minor release seems to undersell it. I found Anthropic’s .5 jump a bit silly, but it does its job in communicating the advancement.
How do you go about comparing models? Personally, I've found that the quality of output is overwhelmingly dictated by the quality of the input I give it - and that the quality of input differs massively depending on the task at hand, how much documentation exists, what kind of mood I'm in, etc.
Hence, I'm beginning to believe that unless you're doing very specialized work - the model itself has become a commodity, incremental quality is irrelevant and that economics and privacy are what actually matter now.
Indeed. So the winner is going to be whoever can also commoditize the rest, i.e. hardware and energy costs. In the long run, whoever has the factories to make chips, windmills and solar panels is going to be ahead. I think this is well understood by the American elites, and it can very well explain their exacerbated hawkishness.
What the heck, after selecting the checkbox to "Verify I am Human" on this URL I am prompted to scan a QR code. Believe I may have read mentions of this around HN but never seen it before. Definitely not willing to scan a QR code to prove anything but is this becoming standard practice now?
No criticism of the above poster because they are helping us all out here but I am astounded.
Fine, I’ll try GLM 5.2 since it has arrived in my OpenCode subscription. I haven’t used it much, but GLM 5.1 hasn’t blown me away. If it really is that good, a minor release seems to undersell it. I found Anthropic’s .5 jump a bit silly, but it does its job in communicating the advancement.
How do you go about comparing models? Personally, I've found that the quality of output is overwhelmingly dictated by the quality of the input I give it - and that the quality of input differs massively depending on the task at hand, how much documentation exists, what kind of mood I'm in, etc.
Hence, I'm beginning to believe that unless you're doing very specialized work - the model itself has become a commodity, incremental quality is irrelevant and that economics and privacy are what actually matter now.
> the model itself has become a commodity
Indeed. So the winner is going to be whoever can also commoditize the rest, i.e. hardware and energy costs. In the long run, whoever has the factories to make chips, windmills and solar panels is going to be ahead. I think this is well understood by the American elites, and it can very well explain their exacerbated hawkishness.
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What the heck, after selecting the checkbox to "Verify I am Human" on this URL I am prompted to scan a QR code. Believe I may have read mentions of this around HN but never seen it before. Definitely not willing to scan a QR code to prove anything but is this becoming standard practice now?
No criticism of the above poster because they are helping us all out here but I am astounded.
You can select a different test instead of scanning the QR code.
There's a button under the QR code for a "visual test" which is just the usual "pick pictures containing a bicycle" thing.
Thank you. After revisiting I actually was only presented with the standard bicycle picture.
Odd. I receive a non English website when clicking on that link.