Yesterday I needed a tool for a specific task. In 1 hour I created a working tool with antigravity. Is it something I'd publish or sell or offer to others? Probably not, but I found that quite impressive. It is an extension of the idea "now I can program and create everything."

Besides I remember what kind of code we had when we first started coding with AI and now with all these coding agents etc. it has become quite impressive.

However, at the end it is still a tool and needs to be used accordingly.

You can create anything you need as long as what you need is a disposable script, a scotch-taped together single page app, or a complex problem and you have thousands of dollars to throw at tokens.

I've been playing with local models for some time, and I've been pleasantly surprised of late. A meager rtx 5080 with 16gb can give pretty good results now. The ecosystem is also improving pretty quickly.

I have a feeling at some point we will have a "Windows 95" moment (when computing really became personal for the masses) in AI, and things will significantly change shape again.

What local model do you recommend these days? I’ve got a 4090, mostly sitting idle.

The answer to which ai model, in mid 2026, is always qwen. Depending on your ram, it’s qwen3.5-9b, qwen3.6-35b-a3 in a 3 or 4 bit quant, or qwen3.6-27b. I’m told a bigger model quantized is better than a smaller model unquantized. In 16Gb vram on 10 year old hardware i can run a 3bit quant of qwen3.6-35b-a3 at ~30tokens/sec, and it can do a lot.

qwen 3.5 with 9b is being a pretty decent workhorse for me, even with context around 4k.

You hit the nail on the head!

The uncertainty is one of the main reasons why I didn't bother to go the F1->H1B route and ended up leaving the US again.... but that was a decade ago.

Are you really comparing flash to opus? Shouldn't you be comparing pro?

The benchmark tables in the Google announcement include Opus 4.7, and the numbers are very impressive. Caveat emptor, but it's not unreasonable to compare a new Flash to a current-gen Opus, even if some of the results confirm expectations

Isn't that someone the person who created the PR? "Product Manager at @microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot!" it says on her profile

But only if you watched this 1 min Segment of today's sponsor...

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Microsoft already does this with their mobile Outlook. Sent by Outlook Android / iOS on the bottom of the message.

Huge difference: the commit signature may not have had anything to do with Copilot, whereas email sent by mobile Outlook was... sent by Outlook.

Nah, they are both unacceptable spam. Don't put words in my mouth and don't hijack my communication for marketing.

I was just pointing out there's a difference, not endorsing any of it.

Isn't he rage baiting? Now everyone talks about him again. Perfect for a narcissist.

Stop seeking ulterior motives. He's just an evil person.

Por qué no los dos?

Claro

His social media posts are very specifically designed to distract and pack the news cycle full of garbage, drowning out what actually matters. His entire life, his main defense to anything has been to attack and distract.

His posting style is also very typical of facist governments.

His approval rating is the worst of any president since WW2, including his first term, which was the previous 'record holder.' The Iran war is deeply unpopular with the American people, the skyrocketing gas and diesel prices are infuriating many. He's desperate to shift attention.

I don't think they're "very specifically designed" to do that, I think that's just how he is, raw and unfiltered. He was a shitposter on Twitter too, that's why he was banned.

It's not.

This is one of the main reasons I prefer to use openrouter instead. It's prepaid.

I also use it, but I would not call it light and fast.