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amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

In my test the prompt was the same and all suggestions were auto accepted so indeed there was no difference other than model and harness. The amount of characters typed and interaction with the harnesses were exactly the same.

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

Both companies don't mind weaponization. The difference is whether it should only be domestic. Both are ok with foreigners being bombed.

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

https://claude.com/community/ambassadors

https://www.tupperware.com/pages/host-a-party?srsltid=AfmBOo...

It really is the same thing. You and others get more credits or gift social gathering, expanded opportunities, etc.

amazingamazingon WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

I am not confused. Sad. Go analyze the front pages for yourself with llm, it is becoming more political.

amazingamazingon Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets

The benefit of a computer would be trivial to demonstrate.

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

Tupperware party is a particular thing about the social framework around promoting corporate goods.

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

I am not sure why the past matters here. I am talking about now, it is a fast moving space.

As for the test, of course the output matters. Take image models for example. Differences are clear as day.

Should the fact that OpenAI existed before Anthropic did at all matter? No, imo. I would have used opus 4.8, but it only just came out- fast moving space

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

I can tell the difference between tea and coffee 100% of the time.

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

It is unclear which strategy will work in the end. 3.5 flash uses fewer tokens and is cheaper.

amazingamazingon WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

I have been here longer than you. I just rotate accounts after around 1000 karma (this account will be thrown away too soon)

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

> There’s stuff beyond just the output that goes into tool choice.

Yup, like billions of capex. Unlike vim.

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

Luxury cars are indeed a good comparison. The subjective joy is a result of the delusion. That is why so much money is spent on such marketing to begin with. The analogous comparison would be if a blindfolded passenger turned out to prefer the Sienna to the 911.

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

This is my point. The harness itself creates feelings that are positive, but the artifacts produced are similar.

It is like the employee who is slightly worse but is a brownnoser getting promoted more often.

And what do you know, that is what is happening. It is like the coke commercial with the nice music and beautiful person in the back.

Speaking of which, remember Pepsi Challenge? Coke lovers are like the claude code lovers.

amazingamazingon Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup

I never want to hear from developers again that they are not susceptible to marketing. I see meet ups specifically about Claude often.

Modern tupperware party.

A colleague was convinced Claude is better so we played a game. We used the claude code and codex harness and I implemented some prs they needed with gpt5.5 and opus4.7 and asked them to identify which came from which only from the code.

Couldn’t tell.

Edit: i bet 99% of people here, if presented with a test where i gave 5 models but all of the results came from one, would not be able to discern this. Just vibes all the way down.

amazingamazingon WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

True, but that is democracy for you.

amazingamazingon WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

The world should be more independent and self sufficient. It will be better in the long run.

amazingamazingon Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Yeah it is as if this website is by a VC.

amazingamazingon Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets

AI is overhyped. I have yet to see an end user product that in itself isnt a wrapper around LLMs that is impressive created by LLM assistance. I have also yet to see dramatic increases of revenue of companies using LLMs that don't involve selling things in its supply chain. Is it a nice affordance? Sure. 1T capex good? No.

If it was so good I would expect to see 2005-2015 advancements yearly.

Meanwhile China is blowing past the world with real improvements in the real world- solar, EVs, etc. meanwhile people keep making their fancy sans serif websites about todo apps, faster than ever before. Useless.

amazingamazingon WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants

I will take an invite

amazingamazingon Zig: Build System Reworked

What is the reason?

amazingamazingon The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

Writing is on the wall for more subscriptions. California will never learn - killed hollywood with most production being moved overseas, and now gaming.

I wonder if they will do something similar for software

amazingamazingon GTA 6 Developers Unionize

Ironically even in the case here it is the outsourced people unionizing.

amazingamazingon GTA 6 Developers Unionize

Huh? Are you projecting something here?

amazingamazingon GTA 6 Developers Unionize

I see the benefit of a union for the workers, but your examples seem strange. They do not illustrate that a union somehow results in a better product.

If that were self evident how come there has never been a company that started with employees unionized? To get this supposed benefit

amazingamazingon GTA 6 Developers Unionize

Aren’t most boeing made by unionized workers? If by both that seems like a good comparison to make

amazingamazingon GTA 6 Developers Unionize

Interesting - but seems like Toyota in particular had their cars produced by non unionized group producing workers at least for some period:

https://uaw.org/we-keep-toyota-running-workers-at-critical-t...

Seems hard to compare since there is no comparison in Japan that is not unionized

But given that China is now winning my original point stands

amazingamazingon GTA 6 Developers Unionize

Really? American cars suck compared to japanese and chinese which are not unionized.

What’s an example of a unionized vs non unionized group producing the same thing where unionized is better?

amazingamazingon Valve raises Steam Deck prices

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amazingamazingon Private equity bought America's essential services

It really was not. Go look at the success rate of enforcement.

amazingamazingon Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services

Simply because that is the maximally reduced case and it inevitably will result in the same situation.