ThePrimeagen
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- ThePrimeagen swapped Luna for Haiku 5.5 and it got worse
A one line config change was the only difference, which rules out the harness as an explanation.
- ThePrimeagen burns 56% of a $500 plan in an hour
One hour of prompting, more than half a week of allowance gone, and a follow-up pointing at Astra.
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- ThePrimeagen ran four model passes and hated the result
Three review passes caught guardrails and dead code, and none of them caught the design.
- Engineers push back on Amodei's pacing the frontier call
The loudest objections came from people shipping production systems, not from other labs.
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