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Is passively interacting with AI against your will really counted in the "people using AI" metric for the sake of this discussion?

>The market for Claude Code is much bigger than professional software devs. It's really anyone who uses a computer.

I'm sorry and I'm sure you are being honest in knowing non-tech people using it, but this is on the whole false. The vast majority of people not only have no interest in "personal software" or using Claude for programming, but the slice of the population that does actively interact with AI is using free chatbots as a nu-Google. Most tech people don't even want the "personal software" thing, I don't know why this line is being pushed as if your grandma is going to make her own calorie counter app one day.

I think there's definitely some quantization or nerfing happening post-release -- I definitely noticed that with Gemini Flash 3.7, it was super fast and accurate at the start and a few weeks later seemed to run in circles and overthink even a "what are you doing" message, all while doing almost identical work. I find it weird that we're so far into the LLM era and the post-launch degradation is still something of a conspiracy theory.

It's crazy to think someone with that complex of a job needs to be babysat

Noise and increased electricity costs. I feel like the people balking at anti-datacenter rhetoric are just intentionally missing the most obvious and directly impacting complaints from residents.

I similarly have a weird affinity for Gemini that I can't really articulate. I used Gemini's free chat and found it great for exploring technical topics (and random one-off general walking-around-questions) and appreciated its speed, tone and accuracy. I spent a month playing with Gemini CLI / Antigravity and found it also an effective coding agent, at least for my workflow (entirely in the loop development and review). I also was really surprised that I could just paste it images of a project I was working on and have it immediately understand what it was looking at -- which I've come to learn is considered a unique strong point for Gemini. I've been playing with GPT5.6 for about a month and it's definitely powerful but I honestly think I'll go back to Gemini. There's something kind of charming about working with an AI that not only is particularly good at web search and information gathering, but also one that doesn't feel like some superhuman overengineering freak when it comes to code.

It was always possible to modify images to produce inappropriate or insensitive content, but plugging a turbocharged state of the art image generator with virtually no guardrails into every Twitter reply and then failing to address the issue long after it was obviously being used for CSAM or deepfakes of real people against their will.. well that's worse

Took me a sec to realize you weren't quoting the guy from Tool lol

Do we really believe marketing copy from Anthropic re: RSI considering their recent model releases seem to be markedly regressing in real world performance vs. past models?

There are very little (read: zero) references to politics in my codebase so I don't really care if the free Chinese frontier model throws an error when I ask about Tiananmen Square. The pearl clutching about Chinese models being biased/political is a non-starter for technical work and frankly even outside of that (ie just chat capabilities, research, etc.) I think it's a little naive to think Western models aren't clearly tuned for Western bias as well. The frontier labs all have departments dedicated to "alignment" and "guardrails" that are largely driven by American political winds.

These models were trained on massive scale copyright infringement, I really don't think they're drawing the line at training on the requests you send them

You caught me, I was too on the nose using the classic Russian disinformation tactic of saying mass surveillance is bad