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Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:14PM (#49999497)
tip: you can just say "ELI5" and the model will know what you want there
Definitely not resolved yet.
Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:45PM (#49903376)
Isn't that roughly what Haiku/Sonnet/Luna/Terra are?
Re:Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @04:37PM (#49822216)
Yeah. Small groups within it can definitely maintain it
Re:Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @01:40PM (#49819744)
Have any companies mastered high craft at scale (like 1000s of engineers)?
Don't forget that there are a ton of tools out there that will automatically fall back in case of outage

E.g. say you chose Sol as your default in Cursor, but Opus is your 2nd choice, it's going to give up on Sol after a few tries and switch to Opus

Or you have copilot code reviews set up, and it falls back

Etc

Or that Gemini is built to handle massive load spikes, and/or has a ton of excess capacity
I'm not sure if this is a good look, or a bad one, for Anthropic.
...and how many people to label all of the examples?
Re:Our position on open-weights models on Monday July 27, 2026 @08:30PM (#49077669)
> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.

That is not an argument against open weight models. That's just a generic protectionist argument against any Other lab.

Re:Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:49PM (#48493828)
You can drink it, but the utilities don't rate it for that / guarantee (complete) treatment, IIRC.
Re:Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water on Thursday June 11, 2026 @11:40AM (#48491881)
They hook into industrial water supplies (usually not potable, unless the utility has no other option)
Re:Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:27PM (#48464307)
"Fable 5 (disabled) Most capable for your hardest and longest-running tasks · Disable zero data retention to unlock Fable 5 access"
> Crazy. Those same enterprises will get sticker shock and leave.

They are already. Both for sticker shock, and also because of developer sentiment beginning to shift towards Codex. …and then in a month or two the winds will shift again, I'm sure.

It's interesting to see how Claude Code got commoditized so quickly.

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> and they have the vastly better brand

Strong disagree there. Anthropic has pretty successfully branded themselves as the more ethical & 'human' of the two companies. (whether that's the actual reality is irrelevant)

Re:Claude Design on Saturday April 18, 2026 @03:13AM (#47813821)
Especially considering this is very very similar to Figma Make
Re:Cursor 3 on Friday April 03, 2026 @02:36AM (#47623831)
Same here. And just recently made the switch back to VS Code with CC

Also means you don't have to deal with Cursor's busted VS Code plugins due to licensing or forking drift (e.g. Python intellisence, etc)

Re:Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms on Saturday January 24, 2026 @05:09PM (#46748228)
https://gist.github.com/kieranklaassen/d2b35569be2c7f1412c64...

Looks like claude calls it just "teams" under the covers

Juniors are also more likely to be the MOST proficient/comfortable with AI tooling.

Pair them with a senior so they can learn engineering best practices:

And now you've also just given your senior engineers some extra experience/insights into how to more effectively leverage AI.

It accelerates the org to have juniors (really: a good mix of all experience levels)

Re:Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:52PM (#46304628)
I think a big part of the switching cost is the cost of learning a different model's nuances. Having good intuition for what works/doesn't, how to write effective prompts, etc.

Maybe someday future models will all behave similarly given the same prompt, but we're not quite there yet

Re:Claude Opus 4.5 on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:31PM (#46038179)
Same here. Gemini really excels at all the "softer" parts of the development process (which, TBH, feels like most of the work). And Claude kicks ass at the actual code authoring.

It's a really nice workflow.

It sure is a blast when they decide to cut off (or simulate the loss of) a whole DC just to see what breaks, I bet :)
It's really not that nefarious.

IAD datacenters have forever been the place where Amazon software developers implement services first (well before AWS was a thing).

Multi-AZ support often comes second (more than you think; Amazon is a pragmatic company), and not every service is easy to make TRULY multi-AZ.

And then other services depend on those services, and may also fall into the same trap.

...and so much of the tech/architectural debt gets concentrated into a single region.

It also doesn't help that most companies using AWS aren't remotely close to multi-region support, and that us-east-1 is likely the most populated region.

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