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When someone is moved to Chair at their startup it’s usually a gentle way to change leadership. I’d guess Google’s execs are unhappy with the way they’ve been left behind in LLMs. …

I think what you’re missing is the long term trend. Google’s cloud business looks great. I’ve always thought they should have completely focused on cloud - a company full of excell…

I’m not so sure - architecture matters, efficiency matters, extensibility matters, and all are impacted by language choice. If we had developed our tech in Python we’d be a world o…

I’m very suspicious of this objection, because when Claude first landed the same people now saying “code is not the bottleneck” were saying “the generated code doesn’t work.” Smack…

Not so much due to length of time, but because of the Opus shockwave than fell within that period.

Yes, it can.

Yes, Manchester has a good collection but the exhibits are sadly lacking on technical details, be warned.

For this reason, I always point out that toolmaking was an essential and often forgotten part of Manchester’s Industrial Revolution.

Thanks, that's really helpful. What do you think happens in terms of testing/reviewing going forward? I'd really appreciate your thoughts on that.

I'm afraid law and morality are two separate concepts. You make a good point.

I've heard something along the lines of "Claude is like a compiler: source code is the new object code, you don't look at that anymore" many times. And I don't really think this is…

Keynote has probably the best UX of any software I’ve ever used.

Yes I agree, they’re an alien kind of intelligence. But that doesn’t mean they don’t reason.

Can you give me one example that works on Claude right now? I'm never sure whether this indicates "no reasoning present" or you've just hit an odd behaviour in the AI such that its…

> It would've been nice to reserve "AI" for superior human-like intelligence capable of genuine common sense and reasoning. What would a frontier API have to be able to do to satis…

I think a big question is whether any of these labs can produce a model that is _ahead_ of Anthropic and OpenAI. A related question is how much they're dependent on the APIs of Ant…

We use US models for everything in practice, but we are looking at open-source models right now. So it may just be a turn of phrase hiding the reality. I can't imagine anywhere nea…

I don’t agree. I think businesses including SaaS are not primarily their tech, but are mostly composed of other functions: sales, marketing, customer success, product management, s…

That AI number is a gross underestimate. It’s nearly that for this year alone. Wildly off.

Hadn't heard of it! Site here: https://rubyllm.com/ This looks really nice. Snippet from site: chat = Chat.create! model: "claude-sonnet-4" chat.ask "What's in this file?", with: "…

Thanks, would really like to read the blog post. Are you using any of the major agentic frameworks (Mastra, LangSmith etc)? Or is the AI harness etc entirely custom-built?

Upvote for you. I think "Your Art" tagline is confusing - I thought it was for selling paintings.

Nice, which frameworks are you using? What did you learn from customers? I'd consider a different name to avoid issues with supabase should you take off.