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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

403 points · 261 comments · apitman

theropost · 1786045967 · focus · HN ↗
Anthropic is a bit nuts, I had $260 of credits on my max account for the extra usage the other night. It was expiring, so I figured I'll fire up an agentic swarm to deep dive and make some deep changes to some old cold bases.. literally 25 minutes or less, $260 burnt, it didn't get get into the implementation, just wrote a ton of useless plans for the most part. It really opened my eyes to what they expect to charge people.. wayyyy overpriced.
1. cortesoft · 1786046184 · focus · HN ↗
  It’s crazy how different the credit cost and subscription cost are.
  With the $200 subscription, I can have Fable on ultracode working for hours and not dent the usage limits.
  1. AlexandrB · 1786047695 · focus · HN ↗
    VCs are footing the bill for that $200 subscription.
    ericd · 1786047779 · focus · HN ↗
    They have something like 80% gross margins, are at a $100B/yr ARR, and are growing at 10x per year... If that keeps up, they're going to be doing more revenue than Google in a year ($400B ARR, 20% per year growth)
    dexwiz · 1786048417 · focus · HN ↗
    How can you sanely project the last 12 months forward? We have seen a huge uptick in usage. Last summer AI was a toy to most devs, now every enterprise developer I talked to uses it every day. Coding agent providers are surely going to hit market saturation in the near future.
    ericd · 1786056533 · focus · HN ↗
    [delayed]

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