samvher

I've been testing these models with fireworks.ai

They provide serverless access, and if you use fireconnect it's also easy to hook the models up to e.g. codex which allows for fairly clean comparisons

I think they provide the bare model (no filter) but I might be wrong, haven't tried using it for security research yet

Have you been able to find information on which languages are explicitly supported by this API? I'm having a hard time finding that out.

Yes and many forms of electricity generation evaporate water as well

I also noticed this on 2 accounts - did not take as careful notes as you did unfortunately. But I'm fairly confident - both of these are accounts where I care about the interactions not being used for training.

What's kind of still an open question for me is if the toggle automatically also applies to my Codex CLI use on the same account, or if that data is still silently being used in some way.

After this happened, I deleted all my ChatGPT history (even though I'm not sure how much it helps at this point), but for Codex I still haven't really found any way to do the same, I can still load my past sessions even after archiving them.

Interesting challenge.

1 - I worked abroad and wasn't really familiar with the systems there. Gemini made me aware of a kind of pension account that I could withdraw from when I left the country netting me a few thousand dollars.

2 - Working as a tech contractor, charging by deliverable, Codex/Claude Code speed me up and it doesn't seem to have significantly dropped rates in the market.

3 - Also contractor related: I had Claude do a quick legal sanity check of my contracts, and it warned me of some clauses that I'd be better off removing/changing/refining. I was not aware of these nuances and would not have paid a lawyer for this as the contract was too small, but the changes were accepted by the client and reduced my risk exposure meaningfully.

4 - Learning a foreign language, I use it to check my draft emails and messages. It corrects them but also serves a tutoring role providing feedback, improving both the accuracy of my communication and my rate of language acquisition.

5 - Gemini Deep Research helped me narrow down tent models that met my fairly specific set of requirements. Very happy with the tent I ended up buying, from a brand that was not on my radar before.

Yes I was very surprised after the whole "scandal" around ChatGPT becoming too sycophantic that there was this massive change in tone from the last preview model (05-06) to the 06-05/GA model. The tone is really off-putting, I really liked how the preview versions felt like intelligent conversation partners and recognize what you're saying about useful pushback - it was my favorite set of models (the few preview iterations before this one) and I'm sad to see them disappearing.

Many people on the Google AI Developer forums have also noted either bugs or just performance regression in the final model.

If the only moat really will be the scale of computation resources, that's great news for users, because it will be an extremely competitive market where prices will be driven down very effectively.

I suspect that model quality/vibes and integrations will play a role as well though.

How did you go about learning this? It's something that I've been thinking I might be interested in picking up.

I can't tell if you're insinuating that Singapore is a pass-through for H100's heading towards China or whether there is some significant development taking place in Singapore that I'm unaware of?

What's happening definitely makes me nervous, but "at best a WW3-event and at worst an extinction-event" seems a bit much. Mainly because there are a _lot_ of unknowns. Better try to get comfortable with just riding this out.