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what about teachers' mental health?

search numbers are down as a percentage of total revenue, because cloud is up. search numbers are not actually down

am i remembering correctly that "google cloud" in the earnings isn't just developer's google cloud bills (that's google cloud platform), it's also basically any product where a consumer or enterprise pays money to google for anything other than advertising - google drive storage, gemini pro, enterprise google workspace plans...

argon was announced to coincide with performance review deadline. carbon was announced to coincide with quarterly earnings release.

they don't really care how end-users will receive these models, they're just announcing for internal targets.

i think the point is that you're not sending these docs over email, and they never actually trigger the filter they might trigger. if you're emailing docs containing the "don't email me" trap often enough that you get your account flagged, you've got bigger problems.

i also got a very clear and straightforward answer. asking from Canada - i wonder if that makes a difference?

>There's a tier which is just, "summarize things and do grammar checks, style tweaks, and boilerplate generation"

honestly, this tier is the 4GB model that ships in chrome and runs locally

the rumour mill the last two weeks has been referring to carbon and argon as "checkpoints" of the same model

i use sonnet to generate answers to help-desk tickets, which it does for significantly cheaper and insignificantly worse than opus.

if you're just talking about use in codex or claude code, then sure, leave it on opus all the time. but for running routine api requests, sonnet is great.

a bigger model still has more built-in knowledge to draw from, even without reasoning.

>everybody felt they’d need a training course.

in my experience there might be a few people for whom "the icons are different, i need a training course" is a legitimate concern. but for the vast majority of workers, it's not "i need a training course" it's "i feel like i can get away with demanding a training course" with the full knowledge that asking for a training course will derail the effort to make a change.