Comment by hahahaa

7 days ago

Try different harnesses people! I am actually preferring Chinese models at a fraction of the frontier price for coding. Yeah you need more tokens per unit of work done, but it is way cheaper still. Using CC/Opus as a staff eng / frac CTO. And Hermes/Chinese model as hopefully my team of mid levels. This way I can make good use of pro plan and then get cheap Chinese tokens for the rest and not hit a RL and know it can scale up. plus choosing your model is so cool and some are a lot less verbose.

Hermes is a better coding tool IMO. I can't put my finger on why but it just feels better. Maybe being true yolo helps.

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giancarlostoro  7 days ago

That's nice and all, but I would not get hired in many places that are heavily regulated and risk adverse, and would not hire someone who swears by said models because there is no trust in their creators not training for malicious intent, a random tool call here and there, and you've got a "open weight model" that can send your code anywhere.

There's just no trust in a country that is digitally totalitarian and hostile towards its own people. Do people ever look at the full sized Tianamen Square photos? This is not even the photo of the many people on the ground who were killed by their government and it is still insane to look at.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/dgua6k/the_full_tiana...

  • hosteur  7 days ago

    > There's just no trust in a country that is digitally totalitarian and hostile towards its own people.

    Are you referring to USA, China or EU here?

    • colinsane  7 days ago

      hopefully all of the above?

      at some point the conversation has to go past this reflexive "USA uses tech abusively -> but look at how abusive China is with tech -> ..." back-and-forth to acknowledging that neither party is your savior -- and then (hopefully) acting upon and coordinating around that understanding.

  • hahahaa  7 days ago

    And how is US doing on digitally totalitarian and hostile towards its own people?

    In practical terms you could get US and Chinese models to review each other, right. Depends what your use case is. Coding is kinda not so bad it is reviewable and immutable/traceable per commit. An AI app that is like a psychologist or something may be more worrying.

    • AlexandrB  7 days ago

      > And how is US doing on digitally totalitarian and hostile towards its own people?

      Seemingly better than everywhere else in the world, including where I live (Canada). Whataboutism doesn't really work when you use the least bad option as an example.

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