I think it's a clever thing he did to basically guarantee he continues to get major traffic to his blog here every time a model is released, especially since he's taking sponsorships with a static banner at the top of every page now. I think he's trying to go the Daring Fireball route.
> Pelican for Fable 5 on default settings is a clear improvement on Opus 4.8
And doesn't contain any actual criticism within the comment (your blog post might, but just referring to what was posted on HN, which is a bit booster-y on its own).
I think it's a clever thing he did to basically guarantee he continues to get major traffic to his blog here every time a model is released, especially since he's taking sponsorships with a static banner at the top of every page now. I think he's trying to go the Daring Fireball route.
For me it is like if crypto bros were allowed to shill their DAOs and tokens during the crypto/NFT phase.
He is the only person not getting rate-limited for shilling AI all the time.
Pointing out how much the models still suck at drawing pelicans is a funny way to shill them.
Tbf the first line of your first comment is:
And doesn't contain any actual criticism within the comment (your blog post might, but just referring to what was posted on HN, which is a bit booster-y on its own).
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