Do you use a 3rd party provider or use deepseek directly?

DeepSeek. Every now and again I get a notification that I'm running out of credits. That means I've got less than US$5. I usually wait another week or 2 and top up another 10.

As someone who gets a ton of these inbounds every day, I report every single one of them as spam.

Agreed. And nowadays any sales or promotion posts thst look llm generated are flagged as AI slop

I have a theory that when someone is ready to resign from a frontier lab they must get offered a substantial bonus to post the most unhinged doomer take they can think of.

I find them very useful.

I have been finding them decreasing in the effectiveness with each model release. We got rid of skills and built a determinist harness around the agent instead.

I use skills to automate non-development workflows, like for malware analysis, etc.

Yet the products they release are purposely dumbed down in the name of alignment. I'm in the CVP and Fable downgrades most of my work to Opus, it's incredibly frustrating.

It's probably a good model for folks doing basic software stuff, or humanities related tasks, but I work in cybersecurity on the defense/detections side and I haven't been able to use it for anything even with being in the CVP. It downgrades to Opus every time.

I have been running Fable with Binary Ninja MCP. It will reverse engineer a binary in a lot of detail if you give it mild direction and I haven't had it flag. I think it assumes since I have a valid binja license I must be responsible lol.

I do think probably ralph looping a binary locally first is going to be best to get 100% recovery of types and function behaviors then letting a smarter model churn the final steps.

Fable is way too expensive for basic software stuff. Other models are more than good enough for that.

In general, if Fable isn't blocking you, there's a high chance a lower tier model would work fine.

The only problems Opus struggles with, Fable won't take on. I was porting some software from Win32 to linux. Opus was running in circles. Fable was going great until it saw some authentication code and bailed.

I haven't been in about 10 years, but yes it's incredibly fun. What you see on social medial is not a representation of the majority of attendees, but it is expensive to attend, especially if you need to travel for it.

You hear that everyone? Just stop after $30 mil and you will be happier.

I saw 10million quoted recently, and that sounds about right. 300k is a super safe withdrawal rate for that much money and you have a pretty comfortable life at that income level most places.

No opinion on the salary, but just because it's a once per year event doesn't mean the work isn't year round.

How can this ever be enforced?

Same way it got enforced during the Crypto Wars [1] of the 90s by the US and their allies. Up until 1996 commercial encryption was on the Munition List.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

This is already common. Go try to export firmware for a fighter jet. Any software that the US govt designates as a military or weapon system is just as regulated as the fighter jet itself. And as the poster below pointed out, they have previously used this to lock down otherwise civilian software like encryption, by deciding that it falls under weapon regulations.