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I really struggle to see the usecase of Grok Code Fast when you have Qwen 3 Coder right there providing much better outputs while still being fast and cheap.

Absolutely, sometimes you want, or indeed need such complexity. Some work in settings where they would want it all of the time. IMHO, most people, most of the time don't really want it, and don't want to have to prompt it every time to avoid it. That's why I think it's still very useful to build up experience with the three frontier models, so you can choose according to the situation.

Gemini 2.5 Pro = Long context king, image input king

GPT-5 = Overengineering/complexity/"enterprise" king

Claude = "Get straightforwaed shit done efficiently" king

Yes. For all the things that get done in the name of "national security", this is the biggest threat to national security there is.

Haha, this does make me laugh a bit. They've not been doing antything illegal (they almost certainly have fwiw) because they've been the ones capturing regulations and massive influencing laws.

Furthermore they've violated plenty of consumer protection laws in countries where those are strong, so the entire premise doesn't hold up.

How is this a concern? Does Amazon not sell frozen food (no fresh food from Amazon around here)? Otherwise why would Walmart be unable to

Not sure if you're joking or serious? Every model has "degenerate" behavior it can be coerced into. Sonnet is even more apologetic on average.

Thanks for taking the time to answer. In my view, it's easy to legislate away at least 50% of the harm. Not perfect, but much better than 0%. This would be banning recommender systems and infinite scroll feeds for platforms above a certain size ("gatekeepers"). I'm sure there's a number of loopholes, and you might still believe that even this kind of measure would create more than it solves.

On the supermajority bit, in more and more countries there's already a supermajority for banning phones from schools, more and more for banning it for children altogether, and so on. I think that's a clear sign people would actually be in favour of quite a lot of measures to tone things down, like the one I mentioned. Total bans I wouldn't vouch for.

Can't agree with that. Gemini doesn't lead just on price/performance - ironically it's the best "normie" model most of the time, despite it's lack of popularity with them until very recent.

It's bad at agentic stuff, especially coding. Incomparably so compared to Claude and now GPT-5. But if it's just about asking it random stuff, and especially going on for very long in the same conversation - which non-tech users have a tendency to do - Gemini wins. It's still the best at long context, noticing things said long ago.

Earlier this week I was doing some debugging. For debugging especially I like to run sonnet/gpt5/2.5-pro in parallel with the same prompt/convo. Gemini was the only one that, 4 or so messages in, pointed out something very relevant in the middle of the logs in the very first message. GPT and Sonnet both failed to notice, leading them to give wrong sample code. I would've wasted more time if I hadn't used Gemini.

It's also still the best at a good number of low-resource languages. It doesn't glaze too much (Sonnet, ChatGPT) without being overly stubborn (raw GPT-5 API). It's by far the best at OCR and image recognition, which a lot of average users use quite a bit.

Google's ridiculously bad at marketing and AI UX, but they'll get there. They're already much more than just a "bang for the buck" player.

FWIW I use all 3 above mentioned on a daily basis for a wide variety of tasks, often side-by-side in parallel to compare performance.

Still interested in hearing your answer, and your reasoning behind it, as you didn't engage with the question.

They said, watching society go down the abyss.

Have you noticed how things are going? Do you genuinely believe these are non-factors?

If true, that's definitely a US localized thing. The places I've lived in the big winners in the big lotteries are disproportionately often middle class compared to what you'd expect if the large majority of buyers were poor.

Does it require using a Google or Apple product?

Correct! And he hit a nerve laying this logic bare, which is exactly why The Guardian took the unprecedented and absurd measure of removing his manifesto from a decades-old article when it went viral a year or 2 ago. Lest the populace get to see things for what they are. At the same time unmasking their veil that despite their pretenses, they're just as much of a capital interests-captured rag as their "competitors".

Haven't come across this take before, what's the idea behind it?

Hope you speak Korean! Straight from the horse's mouth. [0] The companies themselves were well aware they were working illegally. People were even doing visa runs to chain them, it doesn't get much more blatant then that.

It's pretty obvious and not a real point of contention. Being honest about this does not support the raid, and acting as if it does helps nobody and only hurts.

[0] https://www.teamblind.com/kr/post/%ED%98%84%EC%B0%A8-%EC%97%...

In that second? No. A week later when, as a result, every other company has gotten their act togeter? Yes, the world is an incredibly better place.

I would love to see a study that explores whether those taxes cover the negative externalities compared to other forms of transit, because that seems incredibly unlikely.

> I was expecting to see protests and riots and fires and further uncelebrated but deemed necessary violence in response to the slow ablation of freedom and liberty.

To what % are you confident thst you would be one of the first participants in these, were the same to happen to your own country?

As the domain suggests, lovely piece of examplary slop.

Doing what you're suggesting is exactly is what has got us here. Do you not see the pattern that the path we're on started very long ago?

What you're advocating benefits the greater evil ten times as much over a 20-year timespan. They're absolutely loving you. The more Bidens, the more Harrises, the more Clintons, the better for them.

You know why China is doing so well? Because they still remember how to think in the long term.

Honesty, openness and transparency are a hard requirement if one is ever to diffuse polarization. As a result, your euphemizing by "Netanyahu's methods" to convey "UN-affirmed genocide" is polarizing, the opposite of what you claim to stand for.

This is contradictory. If it's a legitimate worry, then it's reasonable for reasonable people to want to make such accounts. And reasonable people are exactly those who have things of interest.

From an HNer I'd also expect the understanding that yes, old accounts does give less protections, trivially from an information theory perspective.

It's about as believable as a country with history involving the Third Reich and Stasi openly standing behind a country that the UN, and every relevant scholar on the subject, confirms is committing genocide.

In other words, it's very believable. It is incredible how billions of hours have been spent on Vergangenheitsbewältigung, and nothing has been learnt. Potentially the best phenomenon in existence at showing that humanity is, after all, so much less intelligent than it believes it is - that even after such a destructive event and so much performative effort at analysis and learning, the key takeaway did not become part of the social psyche whatsoever.

> In which countries are ghost kitchens thriving?

Much of Asia.

> How do they avoid the failure modes described in this article?

My suggestion was that this is exactly what a meaningful article on this topic would mention, as clearly the failure modes aren't universal. I'm not the one writing articles about it.

> Is it possible they are simply behind the curve?

Au contraire, ghost kitchens were already more of a thing here before COVID.

Pretty low quality article. In plenty of countries ghost kitchens are thriving. Yet it provides no US-specific reasons for why they're dying there.

That makes sense then.

For what it's worth, I've really never seen pure international students really been included in that term, especially those that are the student equivalent of expats on a fixed-term contract - another group I've never seen included. In all discussions I've been part of, it' s about people with heritage from country A (whether born there or through family), but "settled" (or if a minor, being raised) in country B, with the above two groups not fitting into the "settled" part, planning to move back to A the second their contract(/term) ends. But I'm sure there's other valid definitions out there and it depends on the context and all.

> If the democrats fail to do this, it’s not mere incompetence. It’s probably because their financial backers actually support the changes being made by Trump.

This has been clear for very long. Hence why they're still not doing it, and have for the last 9 years been and still[1] continue to push for Clinton-like candidates rather than whatever candidate has the biggest chance of winning elections. It isn't incompetence, and it hasn't been for ages. They're nearly just as captured. It's true that they're slightly less captured than R overall, but not to an extent that is actually meaningful.

Stating it as an "if" is copium. They have failed to, are failing to, and will continue to fail to do this, and it's intentional. What you're saying is so blindingly obvious that there is no other explanation - no Hanlon's razor for this one, the incompetence angle is not realistic.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/17/politics/2028-presidentia...

They can be "defeated" that way in the sense of a classic Pyrrhic victory, exactly like in 2020, sure. That's the absolute worst out of all options available. "Losing" in 2020 would have been much better. You need to start thinking about the game, realpolitik, and the patterns that have been happening. And the long-term. You think you're thinking long-term by prioritizing the things you do, but it's the exact opposite.

The first thing you need to come to terms with is that losing in 2020 would've been better for the long-term. Once you've gained that freedom, realizing that simply winning an election can be the worse option, you can start thinking about what would instead be better.

It's not just ChatGPT—it's part of the inner fabric of Large Language Models.

Heh. But seriously, all frontier models do it, it's in the top 3 of tells that even someone with zero LLM experience can spot.