Oleg Ciubotaru
Tech commentator who engages with the scale of resource extraction (e.g., copper demand vs recycling limits) as it relates to electrification, data centers, and AI.
Opus 4.7 Improves Rates, Extends Prompt Usage
Feels to me that Opus 4.7 rates are slightly better now? First day it was released it zipped through my entire 5h limit with just one prompt, now I can do a few... I like when companies listen to feedback and acts on it.
AI Token Burning Is a Short‑Lived Experiment
The AI tokenmaxxing phase we're in now is weird, and I don't think it lasts. Companies ultimately care about profits and the value creation that drives them, burning gazillions of tokens for experiments is fine, for a few months... Then...
Most Parent Time Ends Before Adulthood, Now in Tail End
"It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end." https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html
GPT‑5.5’s Higher Price Demands Faster, Better Performance
with gpt-5.5 being 20% more expensive than Opus 4.7, they really need to deliver on speed and quality.
GPT‑5.5 Pricing Doubles to $5/$30 per Million Tokens
I didn't had this on my binfo card... gpt-5.5 is a ~2x price increase from 5.4: "For API developers, gpt-5.5 will soon be available in the Responses and Chat Completions APIs at $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M...
ChatGPT Images 2.0 Unlocks Powerful Commercial Opportunities
ChatGPT Images 2.0 - looks impressive. Loots of commercial applications can be built with these advanced features.
LLMs Excel Where You Lack Expertise, Falter on Familiar Ground
There is a saying: "LLMs are right almost 100% on the topics I don’t know, but ~ 60% on topics I know deeply."
AI-Driven Attacks Will Cripple Complex Systems Soon
Vercel today, someone else tomorrow... Complex systems will be hit hard by sophisticated attacks - augmented by AI systems.
US Firms Achieve Ocean Drone Ship Rocket Landings
2 US companies can land massive rockets on drone ships in the middle of the ocean. Blue Origin's New Glenn booster second landing:
Inspired by Books and Films, I’ll Tackle the Camino
The Camino de Santiago trail in Spain - has books and movies about it... I'll have to find a way to walk on it.
Google Gemini Forces Fast Model, Ignoring Compute Limits
Thanks Google for reminding me dozens of times a day that you are too compute constrained. Each time I open a new chat in gemini -> defaults to Fast model. I have to change it every single time. Even Anthropic who's arguably more...
AI Coding Agents Inspire Me to Dive Into Low‑level Languages
Fun fact - the more I use AI coding agents, the more I want to go lower level in the stack. I wasn't really thinking I'd go back to C, or learn Rust. But I'm doing it now. AI is a wonderful tool...
Artemis 2: A Bright Gift Amid Growing Negativity
what a gift to humanity drowning in so much negativity lately - Artemis 2 was... We should celebrate our astronauts, engineers, scientists, and all the awesome people at NASA who made it possible.
Designing Legible AI Codebases & Embracing Friction
AI Engineer conference in Europe is pretty good. A few slides from Armin Ronacher's talk: Designing agent legible codebases and embracing friction links below
Court Denies Anthropic's Pause Request, Blacklist Remains
A bit of a setback for Anthropic "a federal appeals court said no to Anthropic's emergency request to pause the blacklist by DOW". This is not the final decision in the lawsuit between Anthropic and DOW, but for now they are...
Meta Must Deliver on Llama 4, Not Embarrass
I hope this is not Llama 4 level of embarrassment when it will be released. Let's see when it comes out, Meta has the talent & compute - they just need to deliver. Will definitely try it.
Fishing Rod Vs. High‑Tech Russian Drone Threat
Highly sophisticated & technologically advanced drone warfare. Using a fishing rod to catch russian drones :)
Gemma 31B Runs Locally: High Quality, Very Slow
got Gemma 4 31B on my mac... at ~10k tokens input it does struggle quite a bit to give me a response, the fans are getting pretty loud. Finished answering in 6 min 52 sec. Quality wise, it's good. Super slow, but...
Will OpenClaw Usage Rise After Anthropic Subsidy Cut?
I'm curious if OpenClaw's usage on OpenRouter will go up after Anthropic closed the subsidies.
OpenAI's Explosive Growth: $122B Funding, 900M Users
OpenAI shared some interesting stats: - closed a new round: $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion. - 900 million weekly active users, and over 50 million subscribers - 15 billion tokens per minute processed on their...
Leaked Claude Code to Be Reverse‑engineered and Open‑sourced
Leaked Claude Code will be dissected, analyzed, and reverse-engineered. Every pattern and trick will end up in open-source projects. Chinese model makers will absorb whatever they can.
Future Tech Imagined, but Not Niche Video Platforms
Sci-fi writers ~50 years ago were talking about flying cars and space colonies. I don't think anyone predicted that something like YouTube will exist, where niche videos like this 3h study video with 24M views
Npm Supply Chain Attacks Becoming Disturbingly Frequent
is it me or supply chain attacks on npm are getting regular occurrence these days?
Meta Aims for Default AI, Not the Best
Meta doesn’t need to build the best AI model. It needs it to be the default one for its 3.7B users.
Copy‑pasting PDFs Into Web Forms Remains Absurd in 2026
Copy pasting from PDFs into web forms is the dumbest thing you are still required to do in 2026. Looking at you IRS.
GPT‑5.4 Slower yet Corrects
Aligns with my experience with gpt-5.4, it is waay slower but catches up a lot of silly mistakes from Opus 4.6
Drones and IEDs Make Ground Invasion of Iran Fatal
Just read an older report on - IEDs accounting for roughly 70 percent of all American combat casualties in Iraq. I hope people got the memo, in 2026 the "IEDs" are flying after you - day and night. In Ukraine 80% of...
Grok Finds YouTube Video Gemini 3.1 Pro Misses
Weird that gemini 3.1 pro couldn't find the original video, but Grok did in one shot. This is not even funny... Gemini should have better access to YouTube than Grok.
Many Early Threads Users Abandon Platform for X
Cleaning up Threads accounts I followed back in the day... Most of the people I initially followed no longer post here. For ex AOC has 2m followers here, didn't post anything in 3 years. But she's actively posting on X, where she has...
From Awe to Frustration: Coding Models Stall AGI Progress
I remember when Opus 4.5 dropped I had about 2 weeks of constant WOW moments, I was so impressed of how big of a jump it was compared to previous models. Fast forward to today... and you find a lot...
Know When to Trust AI—And When to Hold Back
Learning the hard way on when to use AI and when to avoid it. You need to learn on your own which tasks require keeping the LLM on a short leash and which ones you should just do yourself -...
Iranian Missile Breaches Israeli Defense, Highlighting Intercept Challenges
Intercepting ballistic missiles is really hard. Iranian ballistic missile making through the air defense in the Southern Israeli city of Dimona
Cheap $800 Drone AK‑47 Threat Redefines Warfare
This is the equivalent of AK 47, but for drones. The world is not prepared for this yet, as we have seen it with the Gulf states. If you're using anti-aircraft missiles to shoot these things down, you're going to be in...
AI-Native Startups Outpace Sluggish Incumbents
The new AI-native companies are leaner, meaner, and move fast. The sabertooth tigers are coming for the giant sloths.
Iran Could Block Hormuz Using Low‑Cost Drones, Like Ukraine
I'm no Middle East expert, but looking at how Ukraine, without a Navy, destroyed the Russian Black Sea fleet using cheap drones, I would expect Iran, which is 3x larger than Ukraine, will find a way to block the Strait...
Scaling Context Windows to 10M Tokens Is Far Harder
We've had 1M token context windows for 2 years [with many caveats]. By now you'd expect 10M+ of coherent, high quality context window to be available everywhere. Turns out unlocking that is a much harder [expensive] problem than anyone wanted to...
AI Code Tool Costs Explode From $50k to $6M
Dylan Patel, SemiAnalysis CEO: Late last year we were spending $50k on Claude Code. By Super Bowl weekend, our run rate hit ~$6M/year... Our data center team lead, not a developer, now spends $5k/day on Claude Code building his own tools.