RideOnTime22

It's FOMO and the never ending treadmill.

The newest model has people go "oh I thought models sucked until THIS one came out." Then when some other company makes a cheaper model that is comparable to it people go "nah this model sucks who would use it over Claude/Openai? Noone can beat them at all because look at this one shot"

Honestly I feel like most people going "oh but I can't do this without Claude" are just suffering from FOMO. Especially since a lot of metrics are just subjective, you feel like you "have" to use the "best of the best glub shitto v5" model or else you won't be able to produce the best todo app.

There's also fomo and what I believe is faniticism.

Even for simple tasks why use X if I know "Y Max" is available and on paper, better?

And why use something else when your favorite company releases something. Surely it must always be the best one to use.

Every other week it's a new "X didn't matter, until Y date" without any hard quantitative claims.

It's crazy how over the past years a field originating from math ends up succumbing to subjective feels.

Because they want to play teams and act like there's "good" companies,

all the while they throw their bank account and whatever they want at GPT or Claude models.

As long as people keep gaslighting by sayting those events are just "skill issues," I doubt there will sadly be a catalyst.

It's less "can't be bothered to read through it because we know where it came from" and more "can't be bothered to read through it because of how word-salad it is"

Unless heavily prompted the written output is always so dense that you can barely understand it.

Everything is "rectifiable with the right prompts" if you handwave the hallucinations it makes (which yes, even frontier models do. Or I guess all companies that had major outages within the past months were using fossil models).

And it's funny this same argument can be said since Sonnet 3.7. But the issues still pop up.

It's just the new thing.

People were hyping up Oh My Opencode. When they realized it didn't lead to any significant gains in performance they hopped on the next thing.

And when the same thing happens to Superpowers it'll be something else they cling on because "this time it's different"