> Fable tends not to perform better, just cost more.
There are old wives' tales on how the original Fable was superb and the stuff of legend,but it as it was leaps and bounds beyond what other models were being offered then Anthropic opted replace it with a neutered version under the same name.
So today everyone can pay to use Fable, but legend has it they are paying for a nerfed replacement released under the same name.
It is rather puzzling how this major contributing factor is going overlooked. It seems obvious from ground-level. Economists often talk about how expensive labor drives price increases, but don't talk about how price increases cause expensive labor.
segor.de goes one better and just downloads the entire catalogue when you first open it. About 2MB decompressed. Clicking and even searching is instant because it's all fully client side until you place an order.
Funny thing is it apparently predates JSON. It's a bunch of data[foo][bar] = baz; - go look.
(Website's in German obviously, and a surprising number of German electronic terms are very different from English. They use two different words for stranded and non-stranded wire.)
This is why my most recent website does its server-side rendering on the client. I'm not even being that sarcastic. We stream a subset of the user's data (1 mb at most) in the background and have a WASM client that has the exact same server views. On SPA events, the WASM blob intercepts a lot of requests and can instantly render. Makes a laggy connection feel pretty quick.
Are you counting mainframes with dumb terminals then smart terminals then PCs, early SSR websites then web 2.0, the multiseat/thinclient craze of the 2000s then computers becoming cheap enough to stick them to the back of monitors?
It's not backwards. Which of the two makes a profit? Which of the two comes away richer? Which of the two actually takes business away from the original copyright holder?
Constant payment into perpetuity for the replication of digital information is just a form of rent-seeking. Except, unlike a landlord, you're not obligated to correct defects.
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