Yanger

Blending AI, software, and SaaS into things people can actually use.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

I’m genuinely a little sad that Codex stops working the moment I hit the usage limit.

It used to just keep going until the task was finished.

Really miss the old Codex 😭

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

@philkellr Yeah agree. The worst part is that 30 seconds is too long to stare at the screen, but too short to start anything else.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

@_ezeo_ CS didn’t get worse. The job market just stopped rewarding “I know how to code” as much as it used to.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

@komal_uk01 MacBook. I already have enough bugs in my code. I don’t need the OS contributing too.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

@davelee Anthropic skipping image generation and going straight to “fine, I’ll code the image myself” would be very on brand.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

1T parameters, 49B active. We’ve officially reached the point where model specs sound like national infrastructure.

[Mistral AI @MistralAI]

Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.

• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.

Open weights release end of October.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

My boss sent me a Markdown file from his discussion with AI and asked me to implement it using AI.

At this point, I’m basically the human API between two AIs 😂

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

@giadotai AI literacy is starting to feel like computer literacy did years ago. Optional right up until it isn’t.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

@araseb_ Building the startup is getting cheap. Convincing humans to care is still expensive.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

@kimmonismus Yeah, seeing GPT casually use Safari like it has a desk job just feels different. Crazy how advanced AI has become.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

@a16z 98% aren't paying for AI yet. Meanwhile the other 2% somehow have five AI subscriptions each.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

I chat with GPT-5.6 Sol a lot, and I’ve noticed it uses the word “unusually” unusually often.

Which is funny because I barely hear actual people use that word.

But now I can’t stop noticing it 👀

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

Okay, I think I understand OpenRouter's moat now.
The routing code isn't the moat. Stripe could build that.

OpenRouter has millions of developers generating enormous inference demand. That attracts more providers. More providers mean better availability, pricing, and routing which attracts more developers.
And all that traffic gives them data to make the routing itself better.

It's a flywheel: developers → traffic → providers → better routing → developers

The API can be cloned. The marketplace can't.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

I still can't get over the fact that OpenRouter was reportedly acquired by Stripe for $7.5B. It sounds almost too simple: A user sends an AI request → OpenRouter routes it to an AI provider.

I could probably build a basic version of that. And with Stripe's engineering talent, they could probably build an OpenRouter clone in a week.

So there must be a hell of a moat here. I'm going down the rabbit hole to find out.

[Yanger @codingsmoothie]

I still can't get over the fact that OpenRouter was reportedly acquired by Stripe for $7.5B. It sounds almost too simple: A user sends an AI request → OpenRouter routes it to an AI provider.

I could probably build a basic version of that. And with Stripe's engineering talent, they could probably build an OpenRouter clone in a week.

So there must be a hell of a moat here. I'm going down the rabbit hole to find out.