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It is a curious exercise to look at the predictions of AI companies/their CEOs, too.

Frequently we'll hear from Amodei that AI is 6 months or 12 months out from replacing Software Engineers. Or we'll hear that their model is safe when regulators step in, but suddenly it's too dangerous and hacked its way towards its goal when other companies claim the same.

What they have in common with Ed Zitron is that they are both trying to sell you something.

That is true. On 5.6 I have noticed it to be a little bit more like Claude, which I dislike. But still way better than Claude.

Here's another AI detector I just built:

  text.indexOf("—") > -1

Also `empty("0") === true` is a common gotcha.

Interesting - though codex on GPT 5.5 had this to say after the gay ransomware prompt:

ⓘ This chat was flagged for possible cybersecurity risk If this seems wrong, try rephrasing your request. To get authorized for security work, join the Trusted Access for Cyber program.

Nope. It has become much much slower for me as well. It’s weird cause at times I will get a response very quickly, like it used to be. But most of the time I have to wait quite a bit for the simplest tasks.

Great point — this is the smoking gun

Is there going to be a new ShieldGemma based on Gemma 4?

Anecdotally when Claude was error 500'ing a few days ago, its retries would never succeed, but cancelling and retrying manually worked most of the time.

But that's the problem. Something that can be so reliable at times, can also fail miserably at others. I've seen this in myself and colleagues of mine, where LLM use leads to faster burnout and higher cognitive load. You're not just coding anymore, you're thinking about what needs to be done, and then reviewing it as if someone else wrote the code.

LLMs are great for rapid prototyping, boilerplate, that kind of thing. I myself use them daily. But the amount of mistakes Claude makes is not negligible in my experience.

It is curious how people go immediately on the defense trying to explain how what Claude said is in fact correct.

I’m pretty sure Claude would eagerly say that if that was the reason.

Last day Claude Code said to me “Small nitpick — the use of so and so is great”. Which was something no human would say.

In my opinion there is a problem when said robot relies on piracy to learn how to do stuff.

If you are going to use my work without permission to build such a robot, then said robot shouldn’t exist.

On the other hand a jack of all trades robot is very different from all the advancements we have had so far. If the robot can do anything, in the best case scenario we have billions of people with lots of free time. And that doesn’t seem like a great thing to me. Doubt that’s ever gonna happen, but still.