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Re:Get Ready for Touch on Mac on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:46PM (#50282994)
Agree 100%. I used the touchscreen when I had a Surface Book when working at microsoft but the touchscreen on the Surface laptop is useless
This is unfathomable. The criminal leniency is one thing, but how did she only get $7k in restitution. I gotta imagine the civil ruling would be much more severe than that.
Re:OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:49PM (#50023255)
And it's not 2027 yet. We are so myopic. Ten years from now is going to be insane
Wow what a pair
Re:Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results? on Monday September 07, 2026 @04:29PM (#49602668)
Unironically Fable & Astra would give far better initial legal analysis vs HN.

Seems more like a PSA on how to do it yourself with plausible deniability.

Re:Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:31PM (#48230059)
It does auto compact
Re:Google I/O on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:53PM (#48200177)
Do you realize they're sunsetting Antigtavity IDE? The Antigravity 2.0 they demoed is not an IDE
Re:Google I/O on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:51PM (#48200168)
No it doesn't. Look at artificial analysis.

But it's very competitive and significantly faster

Re:Laws of Software Engineering on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:35PM (#47855554)
Eh. I love absl::StatusOr<T> at Google
Re:Waymo 13x safer than human drivers on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:11PM (#47462069)
And they're in Pittsburgh. Seen them driving while snowing.
Re:Trump Will End Government Use of Anthropic's AI Models on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:46PM (#47188381)
What an absolute shitshow of an administration.

Massive kudos to Anthropic.

There are dozens of us that used them before AI! Dozens!
Re:Show HN: Agent Multiplexer – manage Claude Code via tmux on Monday February 23, 2026 @08:01PM (#47131433)
So Agent teams but headless?
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:21PM (#47107798)
Lol i wish.
Re:Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:29PM (#47097500)
This isnt true for big code bases. Subagents or orchestration become vital for context handholding
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:24PM (#47097477)
Lol Ive admitted im a google employee, not hiding my bias.

Most things aren't worth commenting on except the gemini posts here, which I find insane.

And pretty much every example you gave Id expect quite a lot more for 2x the amount? Idk man

Re:Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia–By Elon Musk on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:18PM (#47097455)
Shocked pikachu face

Not the guy doing lotteries for voters!

Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:51PM (#47080838)
People can be and often are wrong.

You'd notice how good Opus is in Claude Code. IMHO CC is the secret sauce

Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:31PM (#47080599)
This is a decent analogy actually. Kudos
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:29PM (#47080571)
For me any, tbh. I wouldn't fit in a Ferrari lol
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:29PM (#47080566)
What did you say? Cant hear you over the $400B in capex spend.

Counterpoint: price will matter before we hit AGI

Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:20PM (#47080419)
The binary you draw on models that havent been out a quarter is borderline insane.

Opus is absurdly good in Claude code but theres a lot of use cases Gemini is great at.

I think Google is further behind with the harness than the model

Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:14PM (#47080343)
Neither are cars but Ill take a Porsche over a Ferrari for a fraction of the price.
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:12PM (#47080324)
Everybody is subsidizing their prices.

But Flash is 1/8 the cost of sonnet and its not impressive?

Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:57PM (#47080113)
Googler. We use GPUs, but its a drop in the bucket in the sea of our accelerators. We might sell more GPUs in Cloud than we use internally.

These are not data driven observations just vibes

Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on Thursday February 19, 2026 @04:47PM (#47079966)
People underrate Google's cost effectiveness so much. Half price of Opus. HALF.

Think about ANY other product and what you'd expect from the competition thats half the price. Yet people here act like Gemini is dead weight

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Update:

3.1 was 40% of the cost to run AA index vs Opus Thinking AND SONNET, beat Opus, and still 30% faster for output speed.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/?speed=intelligence-vs-speed&m...

Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:00AM (#47001359)
I'm sorry but this is an insane take. Flash is leading its category by far. Absolutely destroys sonnet, 5.2 etc in both perf and cost.

Pro still leads in visual intelligence.

The company that most locks away their gold is Anthropic IMO and for good reason, as Opus 4.6 is expensive AF

Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:52AM (#47001313)
3 Flash is criminally under appreciated for its performance/cost/speed trifecta. Absolutely in a category of its own.
Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:46AM (#47001277)
I predict Gemini Flash will dominate when you try it.

If you're going for cost performance balance choosing Gemini Pro is bewildering. Gemini Flash _outperforms_ Pro in some coding benchmarks and is the clear parento frontier leader for intelligence/cost. It's even cheaper than Kimi 2.5.

https://artificialanalysis.ai/?media-leaderboards=text-to-im...