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In Australia, the pattern over time is definitely more cars per person, and fewer occupants per household. Rate of change seems to be slowing on both counts but it's still getting worse, not better unfortunately.

My experience: clients want to use Canva for everything; designers don't.

This has a reasonable shot at eliminating reasons for designers to pass complex work back to Adobe's suite. If they disrupt Adobe's dominance at the professional end of the market, it puts Canva in a very comfortable position.

Is this a common experience for others? In several years of reasonable ChatGPT use I have only experienced that kind of failure a couple of times.

One useful trick is to treat each conversation as a game in which you have to discover the most interesting thing about the other person. Often, a conversation partner that seems boring is reserved, shy, or waiting for a social signal that it's okay to deviate from the topics you've listed (which can provide an 'in' to the really interesting stuff).

It's possible that they've determined that Opus no longer makes sense if they're able to focus on continuously optimising Sonnet. That said, Anthropic have been relatively good at setting and managing expectations, so today would have been a good time to make that clear.

It's possible to accept that a new tool is incredibly technically impressive while expressing concerns over how it may be deployed. Now feels like the right time to be having those conversations.

It's for Apple to offload old parts.

Lots of great comments in those past threads, though — well worth a read through!

This sounds a lot like ADHD, especially in terms of the focus on getting 'to the point' (which can be maladaptive if it results in routinely skipping over the 'filler', which is very often crucial to developing deep understanding).