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1. prodigycorp · 1790044105 · focus · HN ↗

   Opus 5.5 and fable 5.2 will release tonight.

   gpt-6-sol and Aeon (personal agent) on Thursday. Already preceded by a huge week with step, mimo, grok, and jev releases.

   Relentless cycle.

   1. Razengan · 1790044288 · focus · HN ↗

      In a way it's like the 1980s again, when there were new computers and consoles coming out every week, or the 2000s with all the 3D cards :)

      1. prodigycorp · 1790044882 · focus · HN ↗

         Whoa, no kidding. Takes me back to the MHz wars we had at school and like you said, the card wars. Excellent perspective.

         1. system2 · 1790045468 · focus · HN ↗

            At least after buying 166mmx you didn't get lowered to 133mhz after a month. The progress was legit back then.

            1. AnotherGoodName · 1790046329 · focus · HN ↗

               Hey I bought a ‘cyrix pr166’ so i’m not too sure about that.

               1. kruxigt · 1790061120 · focus · HN ↗

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               2. system2 · 1790122824 · focus · HN ↗

                  Funny I was duped into buying Cyrix instead of Pentium 2. The guy was telling me it would play Quake better. It didn't, of course.
      2. shepherdjerred · 1790047827 · focus · HN ↗

         Wow was the 80s really like this? I am interested in AI but it is a bit exhausting to keep up with

         1. Baeocystin · 1790059340 · focus · HN ↗

            It's hard to overstate how much computers improved with each generation back then. Going from, say, an IBM XT or AT to an Amiga has no modern parallel. It was mind-blowing, exhausting, and exhilarating all at once.

            1. Razengan · 1790062082 · focus · HN ↗

               You could literally count the number of extra colors you would get onscreen with each new computer!
            2. swader999 · 1790075897 · focus · HN ↗

               The Mac M series is more impressive imo. But maybe that's just because it's more recent to me.
         2. Razengan · 1790062397 · focus · HN ↗

            In the 1980s and earlier people thought that in 2000 computers would have the kind of AI we finally got in 2025 heh

            In 1999 they even made a famous documentary about people in trench coats fighting AI

      3. XenophileJKO · 1790072179 · focus · HN ↗

         I think we feel like the 1980's were fast.. and they were.. but maybe not "this fast"...

         <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;claude.ai&#x2F;artifact&#x2F;6xFW1M4RVPj9rH9Nq8VG7E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;claude.ai&#x2F;artifact&#x2F;6xFW1M4RVPj9rH9Nq8VG7E

         1. Razengan · 1790085841 · focus · HN ↗

            Man that timeline is leaving out a TON of computers and consoles

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