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So in other words, right now you have free choice between Claude and Codex and developers are choosing Claude of their own free will, but you want management to come in and force people to use Codex instead?

If it’s so much better, developers will switch. Lots of devs at my company have switched recently. But plenty of others have stayed on Claude.

I don’t think one is clearly better in every way right now. Or at least not better enough to make people want to learn and set up a new tool.

That’s not anti-administration, it’s just a fact. Trump would treat them better if they bribed him like other tech companies.

When were they ever anti-administration?

I only remember them being anti- killer AI and mass surveillance.

Shame due to what? Because they are suffering somehow or because they feel like it must be bad for them because they enjoy it?

Why should they feel like cutting back? Where’s the evidence that it’s bad for you?

Already models have gotten really good at a lot of things.

A lot of people would probably be happy to stick with the same model for a year or two if it’s 10x faster and cheaper.

And perhaps older models can become cheaper over time as newer models come out on new silicon for a higher price. That incentivizes people to stick with older models.

Or they did try to game the benchmarks and just didn’t do it well enough.

Benchmarks are one data point, not the only one, but the easiest one to compare.

That’s tough to say. So far, Apple has been very reluctant to invest in the massive infrastructure you need to run large AI models.

But if they are successful in making on-device models that work well, then you don’t really need as much cloud infrastructure.

Of course it’s a large and complex project in terms of code, but in terms of industrial impact it’s unlikely to ever amount to much.

Linux just has too much momentum and there are too few real benefits to Hurd.

That’s over half of their business, but they do have some diversification with YouTube, Play Store, and cloud services.

Some of their newer efforts like Waymo and AI hosting for Apple could turn into large businesses to make up for any lost search revenue.

They also have significant costs to maintain their search revenue, such as $20B a year to Apple alone to make Google the default search engine in Safari.

If search becomes less lucrative, they would presumably pay less for such deals.

So yeah, definitely a time of disruption for Google and they need to keep moving fast on many fronts, but they are still well positioned in multiple markets to be successful.

Larger in what sense? He is stepping away from the day to day operation of the company.

He won’t have any authority in the company other than leading and voting in board meetings.

Clearly his influence is going to be less though.

And most likely this is a calculated step to avoid freaking people out, even though he is effectively leaving.

Sure, lots of languages have some level of parametric type support.

This is just basic programming stuff and not limited to esoteric research languages.

Yet so many in the Go community treated it as some kind of language-ruining complexity.

Well here’s the thing on generics. Go always had generics since the very beginning. It’s just that only certain built-in types had them.

Slices, maps, and channels all were generic from day one. Same with functions like append, copy, etc.

Your criticism makes no sense unless you think Go shouldn’t have had generics from the start, which it did.

Nope, I’m saying that the language that was seemingly designed with either an ignorance of or disdain for the hard-won lessons from decades of prior programming languages.

There was even this condescending attitude that Google engineers couldn’t understand fancy languages anyway, so they had to dumb Go down.

My criticism really isn’t even about Go itself. Yeah it’s improving, which is great.

My criticism is about this anti-intellectual attitude that has permeated the entire Go community since its inception. It’s like hearing that college is a waste of time from people who never graduated high school.

Ok, and what if you realize you want these things a million lines in? Do you still move off of Go?

Generic programming isn’t some fancy research language feature like dependent types. It’s just a bare minimum feature in any modern typed language.

It’s perplexing that after C# and Java both notably shipped without generics initially then added them later that they decided to ship Go without generics.. only to end up adding them later.

It’s all just tokens to the model. Whether it’s thinking tokens or output tokens, they take the same amount of computation to produce. The only difference is whether the token is displayed to the user.

Maybe in terms of code produced, but one token is only a fragment of a thought for an LLM.

It’d be like thinking as slowly as Ents talk to each other in Lord of the Rings.

So your complaint is about LLM slop, but can’t point to anything that’s actually wrong about it other than that there are dashes?

You can use an LLM to create work that isn’t slop. And you can hand write slop with no computer involvement at all. Most of the people I knew in high school 15 years ago would write slop on a daily basis.

Personally, I often paste screenshots into Claude Code of the application it’s working on. And I’ve even had it work autonomously on something and regularly grab its own screenshots.

Or sometimes I will have tables, charts, or even screenshots of text that I would otherwise have to have another step to OCR or type out.

Multimodal saves me time on a regular basis. Not sure it’s a game changer, but just lets me communicate with the model in all sorts of ways that would be harder otherwise.

Maybe the deaths would have happened, or maybe these places would have become self sufficient or received aid elsewhere. There’s really no way to know.

But we committed to providing this aid. Even if we think it would be better in the long term for others to do it instead, there’s no excuse to cut it off suddenly without making reasonable efforts at a transition.

Imagine you’re the long term caretaker for a family member, then just decide one day you’re tired of it, so stop. You make no attempt to find somebody else to take over, you simply stop bringing them their meds/food or whatever.

Do you think your family should then forgive you after grandma dies? I don’t think so.

I don’t know, does global cancer research shut down when you stop giving the $500? Do kids immediately stop receiving treatment?

USAID literally ran ambulance systems that shut down due to lack of diesel. They delivered lifesaving drugs that stopped.

We made commitments to communities to run these services, then suddenly killed them off. We didn’t try to find other countries to step in. We didn’t try to get the local governments to take over.

We did jack shit to try to preserve lives in this transition process.

What rule about steelmanning? We’re commenting online, not writing peer reviewed research.

And yeah, some people lose the benefit of the doubt. Sorry, but actions have consequences.

Elon doesn’t just get to kill hundreds of thousands of poor people by eliminating USAID and expect everyone to treat him the same way.

He’s made enemies for life, and he deserves it.

I also don’t think one mistake should define a company. But for me it’s just about trust.

Musk has proven time after time that he doesn’t deserve my trust. I will never trust Grok as long as he’s in charge of it.

I agree that the guardrails on the top models have gotten out of hand, though.

Fable for instance won’t answer even basic health questions. As if you are going to take nutrition advice and make a bioweapon with it.

Partly this is due to government interference. Hopefully we get to a better place as competition heats up with open and Chinese models.

Elon himself promoted Grok’s “spicy mode” that allowed generating NSFW content that the other AI vendors wouldn’t touch with a 20 foot pole.

Believe whatever you want. Elon’s beliefs and personality problems have been baked into the core of Grok, so it’s no surprise that it turned out to be a CSAM-generating MechaHitler that steals people’s data.

Anybody surprised when Grok turns out to be trash really should read up on the guy who made it.

How much can you really certify that data is destroyed?

Customer data could live on the computer Elon pretends to play Diablo 4 on for all we know.

Consider actually searching for GLM or other top Chinese models and see how many upvotes they have been getting.

Your claim that Chinese models don’t get as much attention is easily proven false.

So what billionaire are people rooting for when a new GLM comes out?

How many people do you honestly think even know who owns or leads Z.ai?

I certainly don’t.

There have been multiple posts on here with 800+ upvotes in just the last few weeks for GLM 5.2.

The idea that all this enthusiasm is for certain Silicon Valley billionaires and not from genuine interest in AI technology is a baffling take.

No you didn’t, and that’s not much of an insult.