Shota Azikuri

Philosopher interested in cognitive science

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@deontologistics @peligrietzer @nemocentric where should I start reading about it?

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

"The Unabomber wrote a 35,000-word manifesto without one grammatical error." He did that before AI, wow :d

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

Token anxiety - the constant worry that you’re about to hit your usage limits -_-

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

Totally share this frustration. There are so many exciting projects enabled by these new models for me, but everything is stuck in the middle because of token scarcity. I hope deepseek harness and v4.1. pro, or some other open-source model, might change this predicament

[Machine Learning Street Talk @MLStreetTalk]

Late 2026 will be remembered as the most excruciating period in AI progress, when OpenAI and Anthropic basically had us over a barrel.

It's so demoralising waiting for the tokens to reset just to be able to get any work done. I'm starting to think I made a massive error building so many systems on top of AI.

During the times of token abundance, we rearchitected everything to use AI, now in the dark times we are utterly dependent and desperate. It's practically impossible to get anything serious done without frontier tokens, not least of which because using the frontier models even for a short time creates psychological dependency and complexifies our systems to the degree that requires their continued usage. They hooked us on their product, then started turning the screws.

My Fable usage (finally) reset on one account, that was single-shot gone in about 1 hour. Left in a bad state, so I purchase £150 of credits to finish the job in Opus 5 fast (normal Opus is intolerably slow, like watching paint dry). That was then eaten up in less than 1 minute?! @bcherny ?? Bug?!

Using subscriptions at frontier-level has basically become impossible, Astra/Fable API prices are a joke (£100 every 10 mins), and there are no decent alternatives or competition. Now I don't even trust Anthropic to purchase more fast Opus tokens.

Astra is basically unusable too @thsottiaux, a weekly subscription drained in about 2 hours (3 if I am lucky). No more pro accounts. No more resets either.

I can't even use AI on my phone now, because - guess what. Out of tokens everywhere! None of my remote stuff works because I always have to juggle different accounts on different servers, and don't even have enough tokens to wire it up again. Everything is broken, and a total disaster. As for "automation", what's the point in automation if you can't do anything for more than an hour before it craps out and leaves you in a bad state?!

I have tried the alternative models like Muse 1.3, Gemini 3.8, Grok etc, nothing even comes close and they would probably do more harm than good in the codebase.

Contra "pace" - it's never been more important to accelerate AI competition and progress. It's a defacto cartel at this point, little wonder they want to maintain the status quo.

This situation is intolerable.

We were building for a future that we thought would have arrived by now, and here we are - frankly, up shit creek without a paddle.

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@MLStreetTalk Totally share this frustration. There are so many exciting projects enabled by these new models for me, but everything is stuck in the middle because of token scarcity. I hope deepseek harness and v4.1. pro, or some other open-source model, might change this predicament

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@yacineMTB have you tried deepseek harness?

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

Ted Chiang inadvertently might have written the best short story about AI and science. Just replace metahumans with AI agents.

[pete wolfendale @deontologistics]

The one thing Popper was very right about is that outside the domain of idealised mathematical proof, if you don't leave open a channel along which someone can hand you a refutation of your position you have built a wall of ignorance rather than a citadel of knowledge.

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

Dario Amodei's antagonistic and somewhat arrogant approach to China is not helping, I believe. Frankly, it's a bit odd how blatantly aggressive he is against China.

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

Turns out the new oil is... oil

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@phl43 Have u tried claude code with opus 4.5?

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@MLStreetTalk @blaiseaguera Blaise is one of the most interesting voices in AI discussion right now. Can't wait for this interview!

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

it's crazy how Gemini 2.5 Pro is still undefeated. been what, 6 months already?

[Arena.ai @arena]

🚨 Leaderboard shakeup in the top slot!

Claude Sonnet 4.5 now tied for #1 in the Text Arena, matching Claude Opus 4.1! 🏆

Quick reminder: the Arena rankings are powered by tens of thousands of real human votes which have put @AnthropicAI's Claude Sonnet 4.5 joins the very top tier of models like Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Opus 4.1, and GPT-5.

Sonnet packs a punch 🥊 across top categories, more details in thread 🧵

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@rauchg Huge fan of Vercel. This is disappointing.

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@catalinmpit I also ask myself this question. I use Cursor. Yesterday the whole day I was thinking about a solution and brainstormed a little with the model. Today when I had a plan, I just ran one flow, and everything worked out perfectly.

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@huybery Chatted with it a bit, it gave me solid answers. I will definitely play with it more.

Good job!

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@P_A_Kirschner https://t.co/G52bOyCjye

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

@DTWillingham @MorningBrew This very likely has nothing to do with student usage, but rather a single large customer leaving OpenRouter, which is one provider of API services out of many. Students do not use the API through OpenRouter, they use the ChatGPT web interface.

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@jandotai It would be nice if we could sort models by compatibility, size, .etc

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@dshukertjr so convenient!

[Shota Azikuri @shotazi]

@PromptLLM what is your background? how do you devise these prompts?)