Never had any issues using it for personal small scale development. I think the premise of OpenRouter as a magical way to fall back on error or select providers based on price/tok-per-sec/uptime isn’t delivered upon. But it’s an excellent way to simplify the experience of hopping between model providers with a single unified billing system. I mostly only use first party model hosts. Theoretically there are alternatives with higher throughput or lower prices, but it’s simplest to not worry about that optimization.
I want them to be sterile and inhuman as much as you do. But I don't draw the line at "I". I'd rather not read through even more awkward English as it tries to work around how all of the training data has something or someone refer to itself.
Depends on the actual audience, I guess. My stated “wisdom” comes in part from
/r/LocalLLaMa, and my impression is that the tasks that users there give their models to try them out lean towards rather simplistic, on the reasoning side.
But there I literally did read “you don’t need anything better than 4 bpw” a bunch of times.
They don’t hand write it because it would be an embarrassment. At the same time, Claude Code doesn’t really need to be any better than it is while Anthropic has great models no one else has.
I have some lines of code I’ve written that I quite cherish. I’ve posted about such excerpts many times online. So we both like code quite a bit.
I think you’re letting your pride get the best of you. Writing software should not be about ego. It’s about making something helpful, or something beautiful, or at the very least financially useful. Interacting with software through a natural language interface does not mandate you are creating junk. I won’t tell you how to use the tool. But I am sure if you were sufficiently motivated you’d learn how to make it work for you.
It didn't click, did it? You're a kind person, you know, but I'm not. I'm a misanthropic megalomaniac guy.
> I think you’re letting your pride get the best of you. Writing software should not be about ego. It’s about making something helpful, or something beautiful
The things I'm the proudest of are, by far, the most useless and unhelpful ones. The ones I did for myself. The ones that made me think "wow, now I rock!" and the machine spit its guts crying "mummy help me". That's what the demoscene (to name one subculture) was all about. That's what hacking is all about in the first place.
> or at the very least financially useful
These have always been the ones I'm the most ashamed about. These were the things I would not have done for myself, but for other people. The ones that kept me living, not the ones that made me feel alive. What did you think I was talking about?
> But I am sure if you were sufficiently motivated you’d learn how to make it work for you.
I'm motivated to code. I'm not an architect, a QA tester, or whatever, I'm a coder. Now, wanna know what kind of person I am and how I made LLMs work for me long before you suggest it here? Read that:
Then, come back and we can talk. I WILL NOT ASK A MACHINE SOMETHING I LOVE TO DO MYSELF, WHICH I TAKE PLEASURE FROM. If that looks like an idiotic and stubborn stance to you, FINE.
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