Looks like they intentionally priced it just a little less than Opus… probably to give the impression that it’s a cheaper alternative without people thinking it’s too cheap for a SOTA model and getting suspicious.
As usual, the AI marketing is more sophisticated than the actual technology.
Exactly. This should be a criminal matter, not a civil one… and xAi should be one of the defendants.
A proper harness will have memory and will get more consistent the more you use it.
Yeah, by creating a bunch of .md files of questionable quality that get fed into an already-limited context window, on top of a pile of all sorts of other context cruft from the harness, the model provider, and whatever else is propping up the system to give the illusion of intelligence…
I’ve experimented with harnesses quite a bit and I don’t understand the hype. The difference in quality has been middling in my experience, but the token burn has been significantly more — which makes sense when you understand that the more of the context window you use, the worse most models perform.
Having worked closely with junior engineers and with high-end models, I strongly disagree. In almost all cases the output of the juniors is on par or better (albeit slower) than the LLMs ,and unlike an LLM, a junior actually learns and becomes much more consistent than the AI over time.
Time wise it’ll probably take the human longer since they require breaks.
This is only true if your only metric for ‘success’ is lines of code written.
LLMs will output code much faster than a human can type, there’s no doubt about that. But when you consider how terrible even the frontier models still are at the architecture and maintenance side of the process, humans are still way, way more efficient.
Right? TIL that everyone who’s ever shared this image supports fascism: