# Posts on X before Aug 16, 2024, 4:06:40 PM UTC Canonical: https://michaelstolarz.com/x/before/1723824400000-1824477887002550751/ ## On X ### [Aug 15, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1824097697038827980) > i mean at this point \-I'M\- scared of posting the copyright material i'm making in grok\. how is elon going to deal with this other than censoring it like midjourney/others do? > > then again, if ANYONE can do it with the right legal loopholes and galaxy\-brain thinking, [@elonmusk]() can\. ### [Aug 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1823410891641250202) > google and [@OfficialLoganK]() are changing many people's ideas of what google is and what it's capable of in the AI space, especially with instant releases like this instead of "nEw fRonTieR ModElS coMinG sOon" [Attached image](/x/media/8615d62846189f81d44afcc12f412ced0883d25a0af0f173b805f052aca33b74.jpg) ### [Aug 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822615163775639647) > whoever has the best text\-generating model wins\. the world literally runs on text, and it will remain like that for the foreseeable future ### [Aug 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822385484053520865) > after 3 grueling days of trying to figure out the best way to parse pdf/docx/powerpoint in obsidian into a nice markdown file and images\.\.\. i finally did it\. huge update coming soon\. ### [Aug 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822249585529532696) > i mean how difficult could it be to make your own pdf extractor? all the npm pdf extractors are absolutely dogshit ### [Aug 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821527286018986423) > o no i think i ate too much creatine ### [Aug 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821370833421447456) > all this AI hype around gpt\-4\.5 / gpt\-5 with no release is cool the first time, eh the second time, cringe the third time, annoying the fourth time, boring the fifth time\.\.\. ### [Aug 7, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821022814863868146) > today's AI context windows are like the first 16MB flash drives back in 2000\-2002\. > > except we won't have to wait 10 years for orders of magnitude improvement in capacity\. soon, a "context window" will be virtually limitless ### [Aug 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820352479843721645) > been using this all day today and\.\.\. yeah it's performing amazingly so far code\-wise, going to stress test it even further\. it's so super safe though, that's the only downside Quoted post by Ruben Hassid: ### [Aug 4, 2024 — @rubenhassid](https://x.com/rubenhassid/status/1820111720431468653) > gemini 1\.5\-pro\-exp outperforms gpt\-4o\. > > Some say it's the end of OpenAI reign\. > > So I ran my own tests: > test \#1 → write a viral twitter thread [Attached image](/x/media/4d2e8166b4a7dcccb09ad1f0eb2d41a4826f5804a34ff84818b0a82c41ed5481.jpg) ### [Aug 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820303368968905161) > yeah a lot of people seem to forget that gpt\-4o is any in, any out Quoted post by Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc: ### [Aug 5, 2024 — @apples_jimmy](https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/1820259947059479007) > Hot take, I want the promised 4o image capabilities more than voice\. > > Something magic about the prompt accuracy and working in tandem with an alien ai to create\. > > “Art is the highest form of hope\. What we are doing here is hope work\.“ [x\.com/gdb/status/179…]() ### [Aug 4, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820073529200550303) > It’s been months since I’ve used OpenAI anything for something\. It’s all Sonnet 3\.5\. ### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819364084548317256) > small tiny eensy weensy puny little chance that this also drops an upgraded OpenAI model\. but\.\.\. the chance is NOT non\-existent\! Quoted post by Brett Adcock: ### [Aug 1, 2024 — @adcock_brett](https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1819091030496735348) > fyi, Figure has some very special announcements coming > > The engineering team has been working their assess off the last four months > > Tomorrow, you'll see the beginning of something that is nothing short of magical 🎩 ### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819363191190966608) > unpopular opinion: if this is how you react when you spend your money on something like a PS5, the last thing you need in your life is a PS5\. [Quoted post unavailable](https://x.com/i/status/1819205234725457947) ### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819263571668426885) > mind blowing how cheap intelligence is becoming\. soon $1/$3 will be deemed too expensive for SOTA\. Quoted post by Legit: ### [Aug 1, 2024 — @legit_api](https://x.com/legit_api/status/1819161144881217885) > Gemini 1\.5 Flash is going to have significant price cuts on August 12th in Vertex AI > > Input cost: $0\.0375 per 1M characters > Output cost: $0\.15 per 1M characters > > HALF THOSE PRICES FOR \< 128K CHARS [Attached image](/x/media/71f74ce88871a25c9513bd93c8c0c397f783cf65b27a35db9c4f031719c7e1b2.jpg) ### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819177640613630361) > so\.\.\. idk why no one is talking about this but\.\.\. i replaced my daily $10 API bill by just replacing gpt\-4o with gpt\-4o\-mini\.\.\. now I'm paying $0\.04? a day? hello? without loss of quality? ### [Jul 28, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817468542935347467) > light mode is actually goated ### [Jul 27, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817211697960042575) > this looks like a google killer, I wonder how it does with more obscure searches that are common among developers, like what happens when you paste in a large debug error from console? or ask a documentation question? or ask for api specifics on some obscure package? Quoted post by kes: ### [Jul 27, 2024 — @yoimnotkesku](https://x.com/yoimnotkesku/status/1817192241548468546) > SearchGPT widgets look nice > > It tends to focus on the results strongly, so sometimes I need to tell it exactly what I want it to do rather than what I want from the web [Video on X](/x/media/1e029c28f893573a4a859aad4505b22334d5bcad7523040dd54833fc29cbb737.jpg) ### [Jul 27, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817169475994550557) > QuickTime? More like WasteOfTime\. > > I've just wasted all day because for some damn reason QuickTime doesn't play audio on certain MP4s\. Not until I opened it with IINA because I thought, hey, you know what, why not? Maybe this is one of those codec issues\. > > Boom, it works\. ### [Jul 27, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1817163711812976952) > i wonder how people pronounce [@yacineMTB]() \(kache\) \- I pronounce it "KA\-chey", almost like "catchy" but the a is like the "a" in "alone" > > or maybe it's more like "KA\-shey"? instead of chey? or\.\.\. what if it's like cache? "KA\-sh"? literally cash? do I just call him cash? money? help ### [Jul 26, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1816828046449447186) > warp isn't that bad actually ### [Jul 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1816499562049368413) > holy moly\! not one, but TWO blog posts today\! woah\! ### [Jul 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1816379052925612246) > llama 3/3\.1 and mistral large v2 are both trash compared to sonnet 3\.5, there you go I just saved you loads of testing time that I did these past 2\-3 days ### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815784894859272464) > sonnet 3\.5 is still best SOTA coder though, you can tell right away ### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815779155017171059) > $3 input, $3 output\. beta sonnet $3 / $15 [Attached image](/x/media/4c7fff2991292756bd147877e108cbf397a6604c39f91bf201c963e1a5c4dc97.jpg) ### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815770129604731384) > Groq's max tokens \(output\) for the new 3\.1 models seems to be 8000 ### [Jul 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815765997435109627) > Already in the Groq API :\) useable with SystemSculpt AI for Obsidian right now\! [Attached image](/x/media/1a535b90b6d9fb469b8cc5bb66ec4db9d1694454032f5ff7c6807c65d9b92777.png) ### [Jul 22, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815329605735137775) > gpt\-4o\-mini is goated for quick back\-and\-forth brainstorming with huge context attached to it, amazing\. ### [Jul 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815018257071689788) > gpt\-4o\-mini really feels like a SOTA \<10b model\. ### [Jul 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815013577721536673) > I wonder if Opus 3\.5 is waiting for GPT\-5, or if GPT\-5 is waiting for Opus 3\.5 🤔 which will drop first to have the other respond\-drop? ### [Jul 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1815011827056615582) > you don't see kache's 17 fever\-dream posts every morning anymore Quoted post by kache: ### [Jul 21, 2024 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1815009618247987531) > you don't see politicians kissing babies anymore ### [Jul 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1814910713808494668) > airpods are remarkable\. i accidently left them in my pants, ran them through the washing machine \- I put them in a really dry towel to pull the moisture out and 1 day later, they're completely fine as if nothing ever happened\. amazing ### [Jul 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1814241691249033529) > honestly i don't care how expensive gpt\-5 is going to be at this point, it can be $25/$75 / mil and I'll still use it, just release it already smh ### [Jul 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1814151128290070773) > he\.\.\. he just fixed it and\.\.\. and pushed it to prod [Attached image](/x/media/4c5150343c00ed6095c9e6a64b84db327b3f79b4d9014d7b77d4947a98532e92.png) Quoted post by kache: ### [Jul 18, 2024 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1814049055292428671) > [@dysmemic]() fixed on web ### [Jul 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1814147419350983162) > yeah so gpt\-4o\-mini is useless for coding other than maybe diffs commits ### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813992655652843784) > first impressions of gpt\-4o\-mini: super fast\. succinct\. ### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813949063718699484) > it doesn't matter who we are\. what matters is our bit\. no one knew who i was til I started doing the bit\. [https://t\.co/W636GCae60]() [Attached image](/x/media/b6d223098ef83e2bf36b950e7932d0c522124b77144fef317683ea27164aff56.png) [Quoted post unavailable](https://x.com/i/status/1813948338481627490) ### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813943521310863454) > so it seems like a new model is dropping today, gpt\-4o\-mini, possibly a full replacement for gpt\-3\.5\-turbo\. it's supposed to be "the smartest \+ cheapest" or something along those lines \- hopefully it's available through API right away so we can test it ### [Jul 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813854655031730448) > it's been over 2 months since openai has done anything cool lmao ### [Jul 17, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813576839279059452) > the amazing thing about open source that I don't think the first movers of the movement thought about was not that open source is something amazing for humans, which of course it is, but that it's actually a boon for ai\. imagine how useless today's ai would be without github lmao ### [Jul 17, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813430932277457031) > should i rewrite my entire typescript\-based plugin in javascript just to see if I still got it ### [Jul 16, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1813138659719455188) > imagine if context length of new llama 3 405b is like 8K or 16K LMAO ### [Jul 15, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1812838750495420691) > ya\! :D [Attached image](/x/media/e2cb71d11322e25ab8c4fe3bcf89607819255f5b278959b3efedc54604c25833.jpg) ### [Jul 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1812089184016118252) > i wish they didn't upload all these new models to lmsys, just inject it right into my veins via an API please ### [Jul 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1812019743307759787) > everyone's playing the B2C game, fancy people play the B2B game, meanwhile OpenAI is playing the B2G game ### [Jul 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1811837062708101289) > I wonder how my website looks on twitter: [systemsculpt\.com]() ### [Jul 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1811796308598096080) > i always get confused which one is which, their pfp looks near identical \(from afar / small ofc\) [@linaqruf\_]() [@anpaure]() twins irl or moots or wat? [Attached image](/x/media/56ebe32b1a7620a58b785f61018b194e522b6d1bcff4d8dc5e0d1a7bf65b0ed9.png) [Attached image](/x/media/4027b0df7325b5e9fb66b102ab7eff297d61341fad9f1087b6a5bd2e90a8d366.jpg) ### [Jul 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1811793779759939632) > quote this with an image that ages you [Attached image](/x/media/1cf5f22de3029259e98eaafafdef05ae0c75a7e4477b860dd696c59bbb0e3cca.png) Quoted post by kache: ### [Jul 12, 2024 — @yacineMTB](https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1811786846092886474) · Edited > quote this with an image that ages you [Attached image](/x/media/a0b7687df59c0ca4308c92053a70b28ca616e0cb9a004ef00a5b26ec1f6e6105.png) ### [Jul 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1811738900597244298) > it's so cool to take an old script/niche program made by gpt 4/gpt 4o and rewrite it entirely with claude sonnet 3\.5\. the difference in quality \- code wise, design wise, architecture wise \- is leagues above\. ### [Jul 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1811724237163381119) > and this is why u have to say frfr, not just fr Quoted post by ScottFive: ### [Jul 11, 2024 — @5cottFive](https://x.com/5cottFive/status/1811502331609120920) > [@netcapgirl]() Every time I see "fr" my brain happily and unapologetically goes "hey, that's the two\-letter abbreviation for "France\!" ### [Jul 9, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1810690478846706113) > deepseek coder v2 is heavily slept on, even by tpot [Older posts](/x/before/1720537225000-1810690478846706113/index.md) [More from @michaelstolarz](https://x.com/michaelstolarz) Saved from X: 2026-09-07T03:59:41.765Z