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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
#122Earlier 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.
My girlfriend migrated to Claude from Gemini and she's not techie at all. She says she likes the answers Claude gives a lot more in general because Gemini is too dramatic. Claude is definitely beyond the tech sphere.
Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
#123So dumb, I have to think it's astroturfed. Anthropic states they're not willing to help with autonomous weapons because it's not good enough yet, and suddenly everyone cancels their OAI subscription? I just don't get it
I can't prove there was no astroturfing, but I was personally absolutely furious and hard-deleted my account Friday evening. I'm not sure how to bridge the gap in understanding, this story was extremely radicalizing for me, I'm genuinely hoping now that OpenAI burns to the ground.
Why not let Anthropic burn to the ground too? They are still partnered with Palantir offering the same service one incorporation removed.
They are not opposed to autonomous weapons in principle and surveillance on foreigners is fair game. The only moral stance is to use no AI at all (it’s not that hard)
Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
#124Earlier 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…
Are you using it on Xhigh?
Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
#125As Sydney Sweeney demonstrated, going MAGA is a bad marketing strategy and in the end just loses money
Except she didn't go "MAGA", and American Eagle reported higher sales and increased stock price after the Sweeney ad.
let's be honest, she projected a certain image
american eagle sales are one thing, Sydney's image and PR are another...
Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except she didn't go "MAGA", and American Eagle reported higher sales and increased stock price after the Sweeney ad.
let's be honest, she projected a certain image american eagle sales are one thing, Sydney's image and PR are another...
Is that based on the idea that a campaign that plays on Jeans vs Genes is "eugenics"?
Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
let's be honest, she projected a certain image american eagle sales are one thing, Sydney's image and PR are another...
Is that based on the idea that a campaign that plays on Jeans vs Genes is "eugenics"?
this is based on paying attention on what the hoi polloi are gossiping about sydney
Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's much, much closer to the X -> Bluesky, I expect.
Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Are you using it on Xhigh?
I have not observed meaningful quality differences between the default (medium) and extra high. What does make a difference is to turn the metaphorical lights back on, and instead of vibe-coding (as in, don't even look at the code) actually examine what it did at each step (either at code level or QA) before allowing it to proceed to the next step.
OpenAI's 5.3 Codex model on xhigh still makes a huge number of mistakes, somewhere between 25-50% of commits, and it's still terrible at making its own plan, estimating how long tasks will take to complete, and recognising which tasks need to be subdivided*. Claude's model last November was better on both counts, even though it still wasn't IMO ready for true lights-off-no-code-check-needed-vibe-coding, it was making mistakes far less often and was scoping task complexity appropriately.
That said, given xhigh seems to be going through my token allowance far, far slower than on medium, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the Codex app itself is vibe coded and has mis-mapped that setting in some weird way. Either that or they've suddenly got a lot more spare capacity because of the boycotts.
* given the METR study, in the planning phase I ask all these models (Codex and Claude) to break down tasks into things that would take a junior developer 1-2 hours, but Codex will estimate 60 minutes for everything from "write 19 lines including comments to stub 3 empty methods in new class" to tasks I'd expect to take a senior 2 days.