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What would you build or benchmark with 5M free tokens on a reasoning model?

To encourage real experimentation, we re offering 5 million free tokens on first API usage so devs and teams can test Alpie Core over Christmas and the New Year.

Alpie Core is a 32B reasoning model trained and served at 4-bit precision, offering 65K context, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and high-throughput, low-latency inference.

If you were evaluating or using a model like this:
What would you benchmark first?
What workloads matter most to you?
What comparisons would you want to see?

Chris Messina

25d ago

Code as Commodity: observations since I hunted ChatGPT in 2022

I wrote a long essay following a talk I gave at AI DevCon in Brooklyn last month.

It starts out with an anecdote about hunting ChatGPT in December 2022 and goes on to explore what I think will be necessary to thrive as code becomes a commodity:

In December 2022, I hunted ChatGPT on Product Hunt.

It ranked #1 product of the day, then the week, and went on to be named Product of the Year.

Having co-founded a YC-backed conversational AI startup in 2018 (long before LLMs) I recognized in ChatGPT the missing ingredient that would have made that venture viable.

The future we d anticipated had arrived. I could revisit my old problem, or I could expand my area of potency by raising and deploying my own venture capital fund.

I chose the latter.

Three years later, on December 9th, I watched a 24-hour window on Product Hunt cross 500 launches roughly double what I observed throughout the preceding 825 days. Only 13 were featured; most were unremarkable.

The LLM has fundamentally shifted the economics of software development.

As someone with a dual vantage point being the #1 Product Hunter while investing in AI startups I watch the floodwaters rise in real-time.

What s become clear: SaaS is dying; VC is withering . Building software is not uniquely compelling. Code has become a commodity.

What most people miss about commoditization is that when a product or resource becomes abundant, it doesn t just get cheaper. It unlocks new and previously uneconomic uses.

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1mo ago

🔥 Best AI Automation Tools: Nominate Your Favorites for the Product Hunt Orbit Awards

We just wrapped the Orbit Awards for AI Dictation and now we re moving to the next category: AI Automation.

This one is for the tools that actually do work for you clearing chores, running workflows in the background, or quietly taking over a chunk of your week without turning into another dashboard you have to babysit.

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