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This is the email I received yesterday. I think them downsizing the free tier is perfectly fine. Giving two weeks’ notice before terminating instances is not. But since this is Ora…

I would say by default, the AI aesthetic is the opposite of utilitarian. It adds so much unnecessary bits and bobs everywhere, random things that look reasonable at first glance bu…

Inevitably, yes, that is one of the ways. Albeit not a very useful one. Keep in mind that the definition of news I’m using is specifically “reporting on recent events,” not all for…

I wonder, do those people you talk about also happen to avoid the other forms of journalism, such as investigative reporting, analysis, essays, documentaries, books, and long-form …

15 years after making the decision, while working for a major news outlet, to no longer read “the news,” I can pretty confidently say: if something is important enough for you to k…

Over the last couple months, I’ve gotten the impression that OAI does indeed have the better infra setup and team, not just more capacity. I don’t think Codex’s 99.98% uptime vs Cl…

Not OP, but I got downgraded almost every time I had Fable implement something with security implications. Codex reviews it and identifies potential security issues, but Fable refu…

Gossip Goblin, I think, is a great example of what artists with actual working experience can do with AI. That said, for my taste, his works, while visually beautiful and interesti…

Interestingly, I enjoyed early GenAI videos much more. All those bizarre, fever dream like experiences from the lack of consistency between frames, where things would morph or pop …

The only difference I can see is that the controls for local/remote, branch, and worktrees disappear, and instead it shows office suite plugins. I would presume it affects the syst…

> That's assuming their flagship product remains relevant in an AI-powered world. The big advantage Google has, in my opinion, is Android. I think there is a decent chance that peo…

Not just harnesses, you can even use the subscription in CI/CD. That, plus the fact that web chat does not count toward the same limits, is why I think the Codex personal plan is e…

For work, I mostly use Codex and some Claude. For personal use, I’ve started using Chinese models directly through their respective providers, mostly for automation tasks and exper…

> "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt" That seems like a good way to justify your own job away.

I would say prompt engineering, in the sense of people claiming you need to include in every prompt magic incantations like "You are a senior engineer from a superintelligent alien…

"I think we're going to start to see the title 'software engineer' go away. And I think it's just going to be maybe builder, maybe product manager, maybe we'll keep the title as a …

> I'd love to see either Anthropic or OpenAI really step up their infrastructure game. It's worth noting that OpenAI's official uptime numbers are significantly better than Anthrop…

I find it fascinating that every time this kind of discussion comes up, people talk about night and day experiences between Claude and Codex, in both directions. I’m really wonderi…

I reckon right now the Enterprise concern is more FOMO around the AI wave and how to retrain or replace up to hundreds of thousands of employees. I don't think cost is the main con…

In this case, handling all the edge cases and variants, and testing a codemod, would have taken significantly more of my time, which costs quite a bit more than the LLM. Obviously,…

I had good experiences doing multi-hour refactoring/housekeeping tasks that basically consisted of applying the same steps and rules n times. Worth noting, a significant chunk of t…

> I do think that over the past few months, it feels like the hype around producing unmaintainable amounts of LoC has started dying down. I wonder if a small part of this is more a…

I don't know how effective the French protests are, since I haven't lived in Europe for a while. But even as a Swiss, at least judging from TV, protests in the U.S. generally seem …

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I think we too often treat other people’s jobs like spherical cows out of ignorance. Not just AI researchers. Long before LLMs, programmers regularly and massively underestimated h…