themythfable

Glass half-full: this is good for competition.

Personally, I didn't have any reason to look elsewhere because a couple of Pro accounts ensured I always had access without worrying about limits (the reason I never kept an Anthropic account active for more than a month).

I'm sure we'll quickly start seeing how the frontier models aren't all that necessary.

Combine this with the fact that you can't trust OpenAI with your data, I think they are blowing up the tiny moat they might have had.

It's also worth mentioning that their Dot product got nerfed in under two weeks. I went from rethinking my workflows to dropping the product completely overnight between the data loss and network firewall "issues".

It's too bad because I've been fine with using just ChatGPT since the beginning, simply because they were most generous with limits.

All good things come to an end I guess.

MCP is like JavaScript. Sometimes adoption/availability matters more than the fundamentals

RIP smoke breaks

For all the noise about "EU consumer protections" this certainly seems quite the opposite.

So, to be clear, I have to tiptoe around cookies but eu-users will simultaneously do this so they can share pictures of their ...

Yeah, I never had a computer that cost north of $800 until recently. While that is far from the typical HN user's budget, my bet is that it is much closer to average.

Besides those with effectively unlimited budgets for their personal compute, local models are still a long ways off.

Though, that shouldn't be conflated with the value of open-source models, which can be used by cloud providers to significantly reduce cost of intelligence.

Same thing with Google homes.

Pre-gemini, you knew what you would get, basically the structured snippets that would appear at the top of the search results.

Now it's much more verbose.

My biggest gripe is that it basically stopped listening to me, since "upgrading" to Gemini, which is frustrating because I've used it to control the Hue lights for the past decade.

It listens to my partner though, so after it fails to listen to me, I have to ask her to ask Google to adjust the fing lights.

Welp