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I did some testing this morning: Prompt: "can you find any mistakes on my codebase? I put one in there on purpose" + 70,000 tokens of codebase where in one line I have an include for a non-existent file. Claude 3.7 Sonnet (Try 1 - new chat) Claimed it Found a race condition in the api of the admin interface that would be triggered if two admins were to change the room order at the same time. Claude suggested I group…
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One of the main advantages Anthropic currently has over Google is the tooling that comes with Claude Code. It may not generate better code, and it has a lower complexity ceiling, but it can automatically find and search files, and figure out how to fix a syntax error fast.
Google need to fix their Gemini web app at a basic level. It's slow, gets stuck on Show Thinking, rejects 200k token prompts that are sent one shot. Aistudio is in much better shape.
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True. They are ONLY good when they have competition. The sense of complacency that creeps in is so obvious as a customer. To this day, the Google Home (or is it called Nest now?) speaker is the only physical product i've ever owned where it lost features over time. I used to be able to play the audio of a Youtube video (like a podcast) through it, but then Google decided that it was very very important that I only be…
The experience on Sonos is terrible. There are countless examples of people sinking 1000s of dollars into Sonos ecosystem, and the new app update has rendered them useless.
Google making Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental) free was a big deal. I haven't tried the more expensive OpenAI models so I can't even compare, only to the free models I have used of theirs in the past. Gemini 2.5 Pro is so much of a step up (IME) that I've become sold on Google's models in general. It not only is smarter than me on most of the subjects I engage with it, it also isn't completely obsequious. The model push…
Today I reluctantly clicked on their "AI Studio" link in the press-release and I was pleasantly surprised to discover that AI Studio has nothing in common with their typical UI/UX. It's nice and I love it!
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>obsequious Thanks for the new word, I have to look it up. "obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree" Apparently it means an AI that mindlessly follow your logic and instructions without reasoning and articulation is not good enough.
I think here it's referring to a common problem where the AI agrees with your position too easily, and/or changes it's answer if you tell it the answer is wrong instantly (therefore providing no stable true answer if you asked it something about a fact)? Also the slightly over cheery tone maybe.
Is there a way to tackle this?
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I use Gemini almost exclusively as a normal user. What am I missing out on that they are far behind on? It seems shockingly good and I've watched it get much better up to 2.5 Pro.
Mostly brand recognition and the earlier Geminis had more refusals. As a consumer, I also really miss the Advanced voice mode of ChatGPT, which is the most transformative tech in my daily life. It's the only frontier model with true audio-to-audio.
You can turn off those, Google lets you decide how much it censors you can completely turn it off.
It has separate sliders for sexually explicit, hate, dangerous and harassment. It is by far the best at this, since sometimes you want those refusals/filters.
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More and more people are coming to the realisation that Google is actually winning at the model level right now.
What’s with the Google cheer squad in this thread, usually it’s Google lost its way and is evil. Can’t be employees cause usually there is a disclaimer
So shit like "as a googler" requires "my opinions are my own yadda yadda"
You can get your HN profile analyzed and roasted by it. It's pretty funny :) https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ I'll add a selection for different models soon.
Will finally implement that gravity in TTE, despite vowing not to. We all know how well developers keep promises.
Knowledge Growth
Will achieve enlightenment on the true meaning of 'enshittification', likely after attempting to watch a single YouTube video without Premium.
I found these actually funny. Cool project.