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As far as consumer uses and vibe coding, I have great success with yesterday’s models. Claude Code Sonnet 4.5 produces great code with nearly no errors. I tried Fable for my work, and got no improvement, just more cost. I’m talking consumers here. Enterprises with large code bases may need larger models just to hold the bigger contexts, but I’m seeing they probably dont either once they have the right processes in place.

Sure there are some tasks that require more juice, protein folding, chemistry, etc. But for the vast majority of users and most solo vibe-coders the value is flattening out fast.

Give me fast, low cost models from ‘yesterday’ and with a good process, you can stop wasting all that electricity and money for 95% of all the users who dink around with AI as a better Google or a reliable way to build their own stuff.

As far as consumer uses and vibe coding, I have great success with yesterday’s models. Claude Code Sonnet 4.5 produces great code with nearly no errors. I tried Fable for my work, and got no improvement, just more cost. I’m talking consumers here. Enterprises with large code bases may need larger models just to hold the bigger contexts, but I’m seeing they probably dont either once they have the right processes in place.

Sure there are some tasks that require more juice, protein folding, chemistry, etc. But for the vast majority of users and most solo vibe-coders the value is flattening out fast.

Give me fast, low cost models from ‘yesterday’ and with a good process, you can stop wasting all that electricity and money for 95% of all the users who dink around with AI as a better Google or a reliable way to build their own stuff.

After 20 years of managing enterprise software teams and building 20 apps myself without writing one line of code, the process to build apps is now available to anyone. I’ve trained others on this and they were successful first try with fairly complex apps.

Free to use, enjoy. Please send feedback. My intention is to teach teachers in high school this process so they can teach the kids. Everyone should be able to build their own software.

For the trained software engineers out there, I hope you try it too. It’s not a process for teams building high performance systems. But for anyone who wants to create something for themselves running local, it’s amazing. No Fable is required, any other the coding AIs will work just fine.

I do recommend a $20 account so you don’t run out of resources as you iterate through your ideas.

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UPDATE - this meeting is cancelled due to no quorum. OC Parks proposes to spend $103,000 to pay a consultant to study how to conduct a 4-7 year study to discover if there are any rare, unknown or endangered creatures along our trails that might be disturbed by bicycles. The first $103,000 spent is not a study, it is to pay a consultant to study how to conduct the study. The final study is not proposed to include the impact of loud music, dogs, cigarette butts or horses, it singles out just the impact of bicycles.

Background.

OC Parks cyclists now are comprised 50% Class 1 MTB and 50% ‘acoustic’ mountain bikes. Class 1 MTB are mountain bikes with a small motor, no throttle. These are not e-motos, they are bicycles according to the laws of California and heavily used by the 50+ year old community to keep riding on our steep trails. For 5 years, mountain bike riders have been switching to Class 1 MTB and local bike shops now sell 50% of their mountain bikes as Class 1 MTB. Their use of the trails data is freely available and updated daily at the trail level and provided to OC Parks by Strava in full detail at no cost.

For 5 years, we have been monitoring the trails and witnessed no impact by the rapid rise of Class 1 bikes. Previous analyses, and our own eyes, show that MTB use of the trail has very low impact, even less than hiking and much less than horses. None of these has anywhere near the impact to our trails compared to a single big rainstorm and routine bull dozering and chain saws to fix rain damage or the weed eaters to keep the trails clear of growth.

However, OC Parks is unconvinced by all the data and now proposes to start a 4-7 year tax payer-funded analysis costing upwards of a million dollars to discover if there is any undiscovered creature uniquely impacted by Class 1 eMTBs, but not by traditional MTB or cigarette butts, trash, dogs, horses, loud music and other trail nuisances we all complain about - just class 1 bicycles.

After 5 years of first hand experience seeing with their own eyes, OC Parks will begin paying contractors hundreds of thousands of dollars on a hunt to find something, anything, to help them justify banning Class 1 MTB in the parks.

By the time the study is done, it is projected that 75-85% of all bikes will be Class 1 MTB.

Do you think this is smart use of tax payer money, is this good for our business community or the improved health of our citizens?

The Trails Subcommittee meets in Tustin tonight at OC Parks Headquarters at 6. Show up and share your opinion on OC Parks handling of this issue.