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Aaron Makelky

Sep 28, 2026

10:38
that the 1.3 Spark?
10:40
Yes.
10:41
And they don't tell you which one it runs on, but it's got to be because even fast models, like what Ryan and I would say is fast, this blows out of the water.
10:52
And you can tell when they stream the output to you, they're purposely slowing it down so it doesn't overwhelm you because it's way faster than you can read it.
11:00
It's not the most powerful.
11:02
It's not for tech bros to code websites, although you can.
11:05
You kind of have to hack some things together.

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35:08
And let's make this full screen.
12:50
my entire screen here
12:51
yeah so this is what i'll just show you first i get asked a lot let's say i put 10 on open router i want to try glm 5.3 flash i heard it's really good for the money where do i use it at like how do i go open an app because i can't open clod code and use that or the codex app You can in the CLI if you fork it.
13:19
But most people say, what do I do with it? Where do I go? I like Hermes for this.
13:24
So the quickest example, I'm in the Hermes desktop app.
13:30
If you look down here on my model, you can see it's set to GLM 5.3 Flash.
13:35
That's an open source model.
13:38
ZAI is who made it.
16:33
That's another quick and easy way to do that, where you're plugging and playing the different open source versus closed source.
2:29
What is your take on all this hype between Astra versus, you know, Fable? I think ChatGPT Pro is the best bang for your buck right now at $100 a month personally.
2:40
Yeah, I'll first admit I am not paying for any Anthropic sub.
2:44
So I'm using their models through OpenRouter and a couple other places like Cursor.
2:49
So I've used them, but it's because I don't see any value in anything clawed except Fable usage.
2:57
Here's my hesitation with that.
2:58
One, only half of your usage limits can go towards their best model.
3:03
So let's say you pay the $100 a month Claude Max plan like you.

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18:49
You know, the list goes on and on and on, but I'm going to stop sharing my screen here and I'm going to give you the floor now, Aaron, to kind of talk about any real world use cases that you're using Fable 5.1 or maybe Astro or some other open AI models for.
11:57
too much nuance for everyone's situations.
11:59
Yeah, it's what I would say is be intentional.
12:03
And I was intentional about how I set mine up.
12:05
So you can follow this or do it your own way.
12:08
First of all, the shape and the color is customizable.
12:12
And even though you can generate an AI avatar of like a ship captain, I've seen that or upload your own.
12:19
The cool thing about these is they're animated while they're working.
14:13
What are some real-world marketing or content workflows that you have running through here, maybe?
4:25
I want to like dig into this.
4:28
I came back from Thanksgiving break in the fall of 2023.
4:32
And a student in my second block advanced world history course, who's one of the best students I've ever taught to this day, showed me a TikTok at the end of class.
4:43
The bell rings.
4:44
People are leaving.
4:45
She comes up to me with her phone.
4:47
She says, hey, have you heard of this thing? It's called ChatGPT.

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17:50
You know, what would you say as just a general thing? It's a loaded question

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