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Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by folkrav »

Onavo wrote: post #24
pupppet wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh...this is totally going to happen.

Not going to name names but it's already happening with the frontier labs as a revenue source.

I feel like you legitimately cannot say it for legal reasons, but I wish we would just name these freaking things.

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by folkrav »

ai_critic wrote: post #23

Can we not encourage the same strip-mining and ad and SEO bullshit that previously ruined the last decade+ of the Internet? A large portion of the utility of AI is the barren ad-driven growth-hacked hellscape search has become. Don't encourage the next generation of these businesses, I beg of everyone.

It is probably already happening, and will get worse. OpenAI was boasting about their advertising revenue mere days ago.

If we felt like we couldn't trust AI because of slop, soon we won't be able to trust it because it'll push whatever pays them to do it.

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by paulhebert »

folkrav wrote: post #31
Onavo wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not going to name names but it's already happening with the frontier labs as a revenue source.

I feel like you legitimately cannot say it for legal reasons, but I wish we would just name these freaking things.

Didn’t OpenAI claim they’re going to make a billion dollars off ads in a year or something?

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by BikiniPrince »

ex-aws-dude wrote: post #12

In the future: "I went ahead and built the database you requested using today's tool sponsor: Firebase"

The framework recommendations are always funny, but the worst is database layout. I made the mistake of assuming it has some reasonable sense.

Re: Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

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Post by DrewADesign »

folkrav wrote: post #32
ai_critic wrote: post #23

Can we not encourage the same strip-mining and ad and SEO bullshit that previously ruined the last decade+ of the Internet? A large portion of the utility of AI is the barren ad-driven growth-hacked hellscape search has become. Don't encourage the next generation of these businesses, I beg of everyone.

It is probably already happening, and will get worse. OpenAI was boasting about their advertising revenue mere days ago. If we felt like we couldn't trust AI because of slop, soon we won't be able to trust it because it'll push whatever pays them to do it.

And while these sponsorship shenanigans are the tech business’s bread and butter, sponsored answer manipulation seems fundamentally more insidious. Even in a larger-scale measurement like this one, there’s no way to tell if any of that is sponsored, legitimately good recommendations, or the technical flavor of the goblins problem.
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