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Sadly, I don't think this astroturfing is limited to announcement threads. It seems it is becoming increasingly hard to source real human opinions online, even on specialized forums like this or Reddit communities.

I hope that I am wrong, but, if I am not, then these companies are doing real and substantial damage to the internet. The loss of trust will be very hard to undo.

The most alarming to me thing is that it seems to be happening at scale. This is one of dozens similar posts I've seen all over the programming communities with similar characteristics (high praise, new-ish accounts, little if any other activity).

Yes, this is a paid comment, in the sense that it's probably a bot. 22 day old account, with 1 post, praising Claude.

For more than a year, Anthropic has engaged in an extensive guerrilla marketing effort on Reddit and similar developer-oriented platforms, aiming to persuade users that Claude significantly outperforms competitors in programming tasks, even though nearly all benchmarks indicate otherwise.

This is the worst price to value ratio for an acquihire ever.

Not sure why this is being downvoted, but it's absolutely true.

If you're using these models to generate code daily, the costs add up.

Sure, I'll give a really tough problem to o3 (and probably over ChatGPT, not the API), but on general code tasks, there really isn't meaningful enough difference to justify 4x the cost.

“best where the actual logic isn’t very hard”?

yeah, well it’s also one of the top scorers on the Math olympiads

> somehow deducted from subsidies

Do you think the EU subsidizes Meta/Apple.

They wanted to use Claude, but had to settle for Gemini, as they just couldn't justify paying those API token prices.

This looks like the work of a team of stable geniuses.

alright

No one will use this

YC start up idea -- an app that uses AI to help you maximize your YC application

that is an interesting insight

So, in essence, both the input and the output are read by a LLM that's fine-tuned to censor. If it flags up content, it instructs the core model to refuse. Similar to most AI-based moderation systems. It's a bit more complicated as there's one LLM for inputs and another one for outputs, but it's not really a groundbreaking idea.

Actually, I have a really good counter example but I'm unwilling to share it publicly, as I don't want to dox myself.

But the gist of it is that CF sales are really good at identifying users that are both locked into their offerings and big enough to be able to sign an expensive contract.

CF do have an excellent offering and workers, in particular, are amazing for many things.

Once the above conditions hit though, you will invariably get a call from the sales team. There is no free lunch.

wait

The reason it's free and with unlimited bandwidth is that it's not.

Unless you stay very small, you'll eventually get on the radar of the sales team and you'll realize the service is neither unlimited nor free. In fact, you'll likely have to look at a 5 or 6-figure contract to remain on the service.

I don't understand how `serious professionals` continue to try to trash WordPress using superficial and often uneducated arguments, completely ignoring the fact that it has huge flexibility, a rich ecosystem, many options for using modern development practices and 40%+ global market share.

Then, just like now, a lot of the hardest hit people were junior employees that hardly had many years of enormous salaries but mostly had student loans, junior pay and large one-off expenses like moving into a major population center and trying to rent an apartment.

I'm legitimately interested in this.

I run a one-man consulting business from the EU. I sometimes hire freelancers. I work with US clients anyway. Does that mean I can open a US llc and move?

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I wrote this 10+ years ago, still use it every day.

I hope Xiaomi sells this car in Europe and manages to do so without attracting the punitive tariffs that could be put in place to protect uncompetitive EU offerings like the much more expensive VW, BMW and Audi cars.

EU consumers deserve to drive good EVs at a reasonable price.

Random chance and years of underinvestment and tech debt

I get what you're saying, however I don't think that's true:

> the goal was to reach the holy grail of a fully autonomous vehicle

Otherwise, why release a device like the Apple Vision Pro? It's also very far from the holy grail of AR/VR.

It's very heard to beat the state of the art. It's almost impossible to surpass it by some unbelievable margin. It seems very unlikely that fully autonomous driving was the goalpost for going to market.

Much more likely, the project failed for more mundane reasons -- they figured out their EV would be somewhere between a Tesla and a Mercedes on the luxury scale, but with better integration into the Apple ecosystem. When the market for EVs cooled down and many traditional car companies already launched EVs, it became clear that they're both too late and entering a highly competitive market with small margins.

> Good.

Also bad. From the article:

> many employees on the car team — known as the Special Projects Group, or SPG — will be shifted to the artificial intelligence division

So, the people that failed to build a car, when Tesla, Xiaomi, BYD and half a dozen EV startups succeeded, will now fail to build generative AI.

Agile/Scrum is one of those things that are impossible to criticize. You can come up with a well-reasoned critique of Agile and there's always some Agile evangelist that pops up to tell you that you're not doing "real agile" and, therefore, your experience is invalid.

At the same time, I have now done software engineering for over a decade, in many roles and teams, and I have never seen Agile or Scrum to lead to the development of a good piece of software. I guess we were using it wrong.

Into knowing how to do things

You mean like in the United States v. Aaron Swartz case?

I'm sorry, but accessing non-publicly available data in a way that violates the T&C of a site (which you agreed to, in order to be granted the registration), is well-established to be illegal and, if you are prosecuted, you can face serious penalties.

People should not be encouraged to do things that can land them in jail.

I am not saying I agree with it. Just pointing out the current state of affairs, so people know the potential risks.