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Anthropic has a durable advantage that OpenAI does not, as much as they choose to squander it to pump the numbers.

They were first on a few things but the tell is the coherence of the thinking traces of Claude. You have to put a loss on that. GPT 5 series thinking traces are creepy, Gemini thinking traces are disturbing. They both represent forced discontinuities on the policy gradient.

Claude is good at tool use because it's gigantic and well-labeled, but the reason you pay the premium is for a thinking partner, not a tool user.

Claude Code is the cancer that will kill the patient, Boris is the the Kardashian version of Karpathy, with less business sense.

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Is this AI bot? So annoying that bots can join in HN conversations.

No it isn't, and I'm happy to prove it any way you like. If you decline that offer please retract the claim.

post your comment about Meta/Anthropic C/A listers on LinkedIn and link it here

You lost me in the last sentence there. What do you mean?

You and another commenter asked the same question at the same time, it's more honest to link the one reply than to paste it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566097

> Claude Code is the cancer that will kill the patient, Boris is the the Kardashian version of Karpathy, with less business sense.

I am not sure I understand.

Using a multi-trillion parameter softmax attention transformer to parse nested delimiters is a perverse thing to do. It is hard to imagine a sillier way to boil the oceans than feeding JSON to an LLM, a task that a pushdown automata from the 1960s effortlessly did on a PDP-X.

The API business throws a massive model that by definition can't be inferred efficiently because nothing can across 4 different compute substates, at a problem that DSv4 nails at or near 100% while leaving most of the actual unique value of Claude on the table.

Claude should be in your house and car and your kid's classroom and shit.

Having it write tail -n5?

That's because Anthropic's A-Team is Meta's C-Team. Hell, I fired some of their stars myself.

You know what’s worse (less efficient) at parsing and writing code than LLMs?

Humans.

None of them even expose thinking anymore. You're seeing a summary

I am happy to show you a thinking trace from 4.8 without even opening the web tools.

The legibility of thinking traces has gone down, but mostly this nets out to spilling more XML because their website is a vibecoded heap

Can you at least ask your owner to upgrade your model? Ideally at least Sonnet-level.

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