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Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Post by slopinthebag »

bpodgursky wrote: post #101
truetraveller wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Legal, no. Moral, absolutely. I mean, aren't other people human?

Other people are human and I agree that violence used against non-Americans overseas should be used only with very serious consideration and with checks and safeguards (albeit not with the same absolute protections as when used domestically). But privacy? Yeah, no, if it benefits the safety or interests of US even slightly to know what the world is thinking, seeing, and planning, I have zero qualms using all tools at…

Do you have any qualms about Chinese surveillance of the USA? Is it cool for them to gather info on you?

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Post by mentalgear »

tbrockman wrote: post #110

Anyone else having issues exporting their data from ChatGPT? I started my export in the morning, still have yet to receive an email for the download. Wanted to make sure my deleted account was included in the beans when they count them on Monday.

Typical SV/ Scam Altman tactics : technically trying to keep people from moving out of their walled prison-garden. It exemplifies how important open-standards and data export laws are.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Post by pjc50 »

j_bum wrote: post #107
Sebguer wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think you realize how mainstream the story has been. My grandfather, who is as non-tech as humanly possible, brought it up to me.

Agreed. My wife acts as my North Star for knowing whether tech news is in the mainstream. She doesn’t care about tech. She said yesterday and Friday her instagram was full of people deleting ChatGPT and downloading/paying for Claude. It’s definitely beyond the tech bubble.

This does remind me of the brief period after the TikTok annexation where people moved to Xiaohongshu (RedNote) .. for about three days.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Post by pjc50 »

iainctduncan wrote: post #36

The real story here is "how the hell did Dick's Sporting Goods get to #3 and how can I get me some of their magic dust?"

Must be pretty high turnover on these charts, they're not on there at all now. Which might mean the absolute numbers are smaller than you'd expect.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Post by ben_w »

XCSme wrote: post #45
virgildotcodes wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just cancelled my OpenAI $200 sub yesterday because of all this, but sadly I can't agree. Codex 5.3 Xhigh > Opus 4.6 in my work to this point. Hoping for Opus 4.7 or whatever comes next to rectify this as I'm a bit annoyed over having to drop to a lower quality model.

For coding, I agree, Codex-5.3 is the best out there. But for the chat, I feel like ChatGPT got worse and worse.

Something very weird is going on; I just tried a free trial of Codex-5.3, and a significant fraction of what it gives me doesn't even compile (or in the case of python, run without crashing).

Unless I specifically say "use git", it won't bother using git, apparently saying "configure AGENTS.md to us best practices" isn't enough for it to (at least in this case) use git. If this was isolated I might put that down to bad luck, given the nature of LLMs, but I have been finding Codex uses the wrong approaches all over the place, also stops in the middle of tasks, skips some tasks entirely (sometimes while marking them as done, other times it just doesn't get around to it).

I'd rank the output of Claude as similar to a junior with 1-3 years experience. It's not great, but it's certainly serviceable, a bit of tweaking even shippable. Codex… what I see is more like a student project. Or perhaps someone in the first month of their first job. Even the absolute worst human developers I've worked with after university weren't as bad as Codex, but several of them I'd rank worse than Claude.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Post by deaux »

rsync wrote: post #59

rsync.net is (minimally) an openai customer. I've used it mostly as a curiosity but others here have used it in more professional manner. When we created the account we shared essentially zero personal information and used a purpose-specific email, etc. No ID scans, no passports, no robust ID verification. It is a company account, after all, so it would make no sense to tie it to a particular person ... All of this t…

IME, zero. None of them require things like this for the web interface or terminal CLI.

And if you want to use the API? OpenAI requires full identity documentation upload and potentially selfies sending to Persona (the exact thing Discord was just chastised over) if you want to use a remotely recent model. Anthropic doesn't ask for any of this - and neither does any other model provider.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Post by XCSme »

ben_w wrote: post #115
XCSme wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For coding, I agree, Codex-5.3 is the best out there. But for the chat, I feel like ChatGPT got worse and worse.

Something very weird is going on; I just tried a free trial of Codex-5.3, and a significant fraction of what it gives me doesn't even compile (or in the case of python, run without crashing). Unless I specifically say "use git", it won't bother using git, apparently saying "configure AGENTS.md to us best practices" isn't enough for it to (at least in this case) use git. If this was isolated I might put that down to b…

Do you have instructions.md and docs.md files?

Also, I noticed it skips instructions if I steer it with prompts while it is doing stuff instead of queueing my instructions.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

#119

Post by bpodgursky »

slopinthebag wrote: post #111
bpodgursky wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other people are human and I agree that violence used against non-Americans overseas should be used only with very serious consideration and with checks and safeguards (albeit not with the same absolute protections as when used domestically). But privacy? Yeah, no, if it benefits the safety or interests of US even slightly to know what the world is thinking, seeing, and planning, I have zero qualms using all tools at…

Do you have any qualms about Chinese surveillance of the USA? Is it cool for them to gather info on you?

What is a qualm? It's their job to do it, and our job to stop them from doing it.
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