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Gemini with coding seems to be a bit of a mixed bag.

The article claims Gemini is acing the Aider Polyglot benchmark. At the moment this is the only benchmark that really matters to me because Aider is actually a useful tool and performance on that translates directly to real world impact, although Claude Code is even better. If you look closely, in fact Gemini is at the top only in the "percent correct" category but not "percent correct using the right edit format". Cost is marked as ? because it's not entirely available yet (I think?). Not emitting the correct edit format is pretty useless because it means the changes won't apply and the tool has to try again.

Claude in contrast almost never makes a mistake with emitting the right format. It's at 97%+ in the benchmark, in practice it's ~100% in my experience. This tracks: Claude is really good at following instructions. Gemini is about ~90%. This makes a big difference to how frustrating a tool is to use in practice.

They might get that fixed, but my experience has been that Google's models are consistently much more likely to refuse instructions for dumb reasons. Google is the company with by far the biggest purity spiral problem and it does show up in their output even when doing apparently ordinary tasks.

I'm also concerned by this event: https://news.sky.com/story/googles-ai-chatbot-gemini-tells-u...

Given how obsessed Google claimed to be with AI safety I expected an SRE style postmortem after that, and there was bupkis. An AI that can suffer a psychotic break out of nowhere like that is one I wouldn't trust unless it's behind a very strong sandbox and being supervised very closely, but none of the AI tools today offer much in the way of sandboxing.
One option would be https://geminicodes.co/ -- a CLI tool with Claude Code-like aesthetics.

It is a hobbyist weekend project though, the experience with Aider or ra-aid might be much better.
Hey, we could save them all the busywork, and just wire all our money to corporations...

But financial nightmare scenarios aside, I'm more concerned about the influence from private and government agencies. Advertising is propaganda that seeks to separate us from our money, but other forms of propaganda that influences how we think and act has much deeper sociopolitical effects. The instability we see today is largely the result of psyops conducted over decades across all media outlets, but once it becomes possible to influence something as personal as a chatbot, the situation will get even more insane. It's unthinkable that we're merrily building that future without seemingly any precautions in mind.
From the article:

> I’m forgetting something. Oh, of course, Google is also a hardware company. With its left arm, Google is fighting Nvidia in the AI chip market (both to eliminate its former GPU dependence and to eventually sell its chips to other companies). How well are they doing? They just announced the 7th version of their TPU, Ironwood. The specifications are impressive. It’s a chip made for the AI era of inference, just like Nvidia Blackwell
Ok, that means you think that everyone should move away from countryside and into cities. I think that illustrates very well the problem with your approach. Minorities have zero chances of being represented.

The argument about charity and tax levels is not substantiated by any research as far as I can tell. There is however research showing that rich people give LESS to charity proportionally, compared to poorer people.

Making charity donations tax deductible, that does help though.
Edit: I noticed this comment was rather controversial and reread the article. The author is actually saying most people misunderstand psychological safety to be an environment where people don’t disagree. Their understanding of psychological safety however is correct. Not sure why the framing flipped my understanding in the first read.

This article completely misunderstand psychological safety even after including the definition. “Nice” teams are not psychologically safe. If everyone is nodding along they do not feel safe.

Conflict and safety are not at odds with each other. The whole point of psychological safety is that everyone feels safe enough to get into productive conflict.

Not all conflict or agreement is productive. The point of the work around psychological safety is to build a team where people agree and disagree willingly because they feel safe to do so.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet for function calling, and it’s not particularly close in my experience.

Not sure about multimodal as it’s not what I work on.
Are you trying to suggest a smartwatch is easier to build? I think making a smartwatch is much harder to make than a mechanical one.
> There isn't even a continuity of experience for when you go to sleep.

But you remember having lived the previous day. Why is it any different if you remember having lived as a human a second ago and are a computer program now?

> My consciousness cannot be transported to software.

You perhaps don't notice that your entire argument hinges on this claim. This is the central point of disagreement.

I'm saying "if your consciousness was uploaded to a computer you would still experience being yourself", and you're saying "no, if my consciousness were uploaded to a computer I wouldn't experience it as being myself, because uploading a consciousness to a computer is not possible".
Funny how a company who once had a motto of don't be evil turned out to be: evil
From what I recall, it's difficult to figure out how to just pay for the non-discounted monthly, which is the biggest part of the problem.
A smartwatch goes on your wrist.
Seems like a feature. Last thing we need is a bunch of people willing to take AI at it's word making up shit about controversial topics. I'd say redirecting to good or prestigious source is probably the best you can do
SSE limitations in the browser are still a drag for this, too.
You left out the part where you explain why native apps are so much better for users and developers than web apps?

I can't tell why you think WebSockets are so bizarre.
The strategy worked, Netscape is no more. Eventually Google did the same to Microsoft though. I wonder if any lessons can be taken from the browser wars to how things will play out with AI models.
> Also, Linux power management and lack of hibernation means its useless on laptops

I gotten better battery life under Linux than on Windows on every Thinkpad I've owned in the last 15 years or so.

That's not to say everything is smooth sailing. Audio is a battle I'll still be fighting on my deathbed in ~40 years.
Okay but they both have exoskeletons that have many shared proteins. Allergies are just a protein check.
Please explain to me like I am stupid.

If I want to use OpenAI models, I download ChatGPT app.

What do I need to do to use Google's model? They have so mamy things called Gemini... I genuinely have no clue
> And don't let me get started with Sam Altman.

would love to hear more about this.

I made a post asking more about sam altman last year after hearing paul graham quote call him 'micheal jordan of listening'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41034829
As it should. The potential for harm from LLMs is significant and they should be aware of that
But, its Google, you will end up as the product.
fair call but

1. unlike openai, google is already cashflow positive and doesnt need to raise any external funds

2. unlike openai, google already has the distribution figured out on both software and hardware

google is like an aircraft carrier that takes so fucking long to steer, but once done steering its entire armada will wipe you the fuck out (at least on the top 20% features for 80% use case)

anthropic already especialized for coding, openai seems to be steering towards intimacy, i guess they both got the memo that they need to specialize
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Thank you for these insights, I appreciate it.
Yep. Tool calling is terrible across all Gemini models. I’m not sure why, when the model itself is so good.
But then the files can't be shared.
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How does it make them more expensive. Where else are they going to sell the already produced tomatoes?

There is no untapped source of demand at that price is there.

We already know from history that devaluations don’t work. What has changed that suggests they have suddenly started working?
My experience is that "playable" on Steam Deck generally means a poor experience. I'll wait until it's something like "verified".
Incorrect. Source: am a third worlder, my dad was exiled from the third world for being too conscientious and punctual and spent his career working with UN agencies.
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This is what the US "left" got wrong though. Reality or not, there is a strong perception that what these guys are saying is true. I could not fault someone looking at any media whether social or traditional from coming to this conclusion. I think Andrew Tate is a direct symptom of this. He simply filled a void in confused young men's lives. You can point to data saying that there is still inequality all you like, but you need to deal with the current sentiment too. The left is as responsible for Trump as the ultra right.

Americans literally thought that this extremely easy to bribe, criminal, serial adulterer, whose is most likely trying to undermine your constitution (I expect all you 2nd amendment supporters to stop touting that) was a reasonable choice.
I mean, yeah? But it’s far from the seamless experience of macOS or windows. On my desktop pc:

- My wireless card isn’t detected

- I’m using Linux mint, which means I’m still on X11. Some software doesn’t support X as well as wayland. Some only supports X I guess?

- I use Davinci resolve - which has a native Linux install. But I need to use some weird tool to convert it to a dpkg to install and run it. It doesn’t have a window bar - so the only way I can change the size of the window is by right clicking in the task bar

- My two monitors have different DPI - so I need to use window scaling. This confuses IntelliJ - which made all the text super tiny for some reason. I have a DPI override for that in a weird Java config file.

- I want consistent copy / paste shortcuts. I can’t use ctrl+C in terminal because that’s SIGINT. So I have it set to meta+C. But I can’t bind meta+C in IntelliJ because of Java limitations. So my copy/paste shortcut is just different in different apps now.

- Smooth scrolling is still an inconsistent mess between different programs. Particularly Firefox.

I’ve also been running into problems where my second monitor won’t turn on after I resume the computer from sleep. But apparently that’s a bug that affects windows as well when using recent nvidia drivers, so that isn’t Linux’s fault.

I’m not saying it’s bad. It mostly works great! I love my workstation, and I’m enjoying distancing myself from Apple’s increasingly buggy software stack. But it’s far from perfect.

I’m happy enough to use Linux despite all its warts. But when my parents ask for a new computer, I recommend macOS or windows.
Elaborating on this, it's almost certainly a civil case that goes to arbitration, which really means that the arbitrator has to feel like Adobe is in the right. It's quite informal relative to typical legal settings, and if the arbitrator doesn't feel like siding with Adobe... they won't.

Furthermore, it's going to cost Adobe a minimum of $1500 to even bring the case to arbitration, and probably $15k more in legal fees to actually win.

So yes, it's actually a difficult battle for Adobe to win and the costs will be much higher than the payout.
I (surely I'm not alone here) know many people who would say the same thing about software development "scene".

Hell, even _inside_ the software development "scene" you can easily find similar cases.
Like when web developer who builds (relatevily) simple web apps on top of Rails earns notably more then someone who works with a complex hardware.
Because we wouldn't be talking about it if it had been for no reason. The government is leveraging cases it knows it will likely lose for the publicity.

I'm sure they believe that the publicity will discourage further anti-Semitism... And it likely will.
ChatGPT, Claude (both through the website), and Github Copilot (paid if it makes any difference).
Trying to answer complex questions by making up shit in a confident voice is the worst option. Redirecting to a more trustworthy human source or multiple if needed is much better
It is a rustc backend, ie an alternative to llvm, gcc, or the cranelift backends.

It started as a .NET backend but they found that their approach could easily support C code generation as well so they added that. They do this by turning what rustc gives them into their own IR.
Isn't hoarding data for training purposes a key part of OpenAI's business model? I get that they don't have a reputation for selling that data (or access to it) yet, but, what happens if/when funding dries up?

I definitely don't trust Google -- fool me once, and all -- but to the extent I'm going to "trust" any business with my data, I'd like to see a proven business model that isn't based on monetizing my information and is likely to continue to work (e.g., Apple). OpenAI doesn't have that.
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> Is anyone here deeply moved by how this argument is insightful and bring an angle to team building that wouldn't have been obvious otherwise ?

You'd think it's basic. But then you can read up on the history of checklists and how lives were saved by empowering nurses to point out that surgeons forgot some step.

Or Toyota empowering any worker to stop the production line if they suspect a defect.

Or any number of "we should treat other teams and people as worth listening to instead of dismissing them" which in IT seems like a really common problem between dev and test.

> But then, will they even listen to this author ?

People causing the issue will not. But their teams may learn that this is not normal and start enacting change themselves. Or at least do things differently in the future in their own projects.

> Who's raising their fist shouting that respectful disagreement with different perspectives has no place in their team ?

Nobody says this directly. (Just like almost nobody says "I discriminate against ...") But listen to how people internally refer to other teams, and ask yourself if they would consider/accept the outside perspective without a needless fight. Have you already met people who will in conversations say "those idiots in (other team)"?
I am still waiting for any of the alternative Rust front- or backends to allow me to bootstrap Rust on alpha, hppa, m68k and sh4 which are still lacking Rust support.

Originally, the rustc_codegen_gcc project made this promise but never fulfilled it.
Yeah me too and especially with Google as a leader because they corrupt everything.

I hope local models remain viable. I don't think ever expanding the size is the way forward anyway.
The conscripted might disagree and desire a leader who will pursue a peaceful solution, this conclusion is supported by the high number of deserters.
I can’t use their video gen model veo2 since there is a waitlist… hard to tell if they are winning in video when they haven’t scaled that product.
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I've heard that cilantro is a reasonably effective anti-chelating agent. The jury's out on whether it helps with lead that's already made it to the brain, but there's some evidence showing it's generally helpful with mitigating the side effects of heavy metal exposure.
But that’s because you decided to take on currency risk without hedging or having a matched foreign income stream.

That’s not what anybody with scale will have done.

And now you have to reevaluate the cost of that service relative to the alternatives - including letting them know they need to take fewer Euros to retain your custom vs the competitive alternatives.

Customers are hard to come by. Are they prepared to let you go?
ok so the problem is they _used_ to do this.

I’m not suggesting we just forgive and forget, but warning people against abusive billing practices that aren’t in place any more is a bit silly. If your argument is we shouldnt support a corporation who requires being taken to court to treat their users fairly then there’s probably a very long list of companies that fail that test much harder than adobe do, especially now.
The best UX/DX has so many things that also make it good for LLMs. We’re talking great docs, loads of feedback, predictability, structure, maturity, easy backtracking, and a huge community pumping info on to platforms like Stack Overflow.

fly.io should keep building great UX because robots will evolve in a direction of behaving more like humans - for example with more and more browser use.

The main area of divergence that’s emerged so far is auth (mentioned) & no doubt there’ll be others but it’s still 99% overlapping.

Making things nice for humans also makes it easier to audit your agent’s actions later.

To the folks at fly.io - don’t take focus off the UX/DX because it’s a decent chunk of the RX. And because we love it.
> "Hey these tools are kind of disappointing"

> "You just need to learn to use them right"

Admittedly, the first line is also my reaction to the likes of ASM or system level programming languages (C, C++, Rust…) because they can be unpleasant and difficult to use when compared to something that’d let me iterate more quickly (Go, Python, Node, …) for certain use cases.

For example, building a CLI tool in Go vs C++. Or maybe something to shuffle some data around and handle certain formatting in Python vs Rust. Or a GUI tool with Node/Electron vs anything else.

People telling me to RTFM and spend a decade practicing to use them well wouldn’t be wrong though, because you can do a lot with those tools, if you know how to use them well.

I reckon that it applies to any tool, even LLMs.
Had multiple girlfriends for whom having regular fights was an essential part of a "healthy" relationship, e.g. told me clearly the relationship was dead if we didn't have any conflicts. I guess that's the same mindset ..
FYI, I'm Jewish, with Israeli friends, and kibbutznik family on my great-grandaunt's side.

Israelis like you tell themselves this, but you don't speak for the diaspora. I personally feel that Israel makes the rest of us less safe, not more.
Maybe you tried some time ago? This experience report concludes by "all in all, a great rig": https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/experience-report-using-vs-co...

> The usage experience was very ergonomic, much more ergonomic than I'm used to with my personal CL set-up. Still, the inability to inspect stack frame variables would bother me, personally.

I don't use them, but I'd recommend Pulsar's SLIMA over the VSCode plugin, because it's older and based on Slime, where ALIVE is based on LSP.

> But Lispworks is the only one that makes actual tree-shaken binaries, whereas SBCL just throws everything in a pot and makes it executable, right?

right. SBCL has core compression, so as I said a web app with dozens of dependencies and all static assets is ±35MB, that includes the compiler and debugger (that allow to connect and update a running image, whereas this wouldn't be possible with LispWorks' stripped down binary). 35MB for a non-trivial app is good IMO (and in the ballparks of a growing Go app right?)

There's also ECL, if you rely on libecl you can get very small binaries (I didn't explore this yet, see example in https://github.com/fosskers/vend)
> For example they tried to claim that the slogan "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" is genocidal.

It’s actually just German for “The Bart, The”.
When you click buy now there’s three options. Annual, monthly, annual paid monthly. They could put the cancellation fee for annual paid monthly, I agree. But short of that they’ll run into the “how can anyone ever be expected to read all that information when they just want to sign up to a service” problem.
Add to this list apps. As in ChatGPT and Anthropic have nice desktop software applications for Mac and Windows.
Rust does not generate machine code itself. It uses LLVM to do that and there is no proof that the transformations done by that continue to keep the borrow checker guarantees. One just assumes with sufficient testing all bugs will be discovered.

Then the machine code generated by LLVM is not run directly by modern CPUs and is translated into internal representation first. And the future CPUs will behave like JIT-compilers with even more complex transformations.

The intermediate C code generated by this project just adds yet another transformation not fundamentally different from any of the above.
Not just loosely, SGI itself made the core graphics chip for N64.
Key words: "when there are or will be".

"Many countries in Africa" don't have the infrastructure, manpower, expertise, supply chain, and other factors - and they wont have for the foreseeable future.

If you're talking about sweatshops making clothes and stuff, sure. If you're talking about anything more advanced, that requires factories, technology, complex production lines, etc, nope.

For the foreseeable future, things will just get expensive and/or be consumed less.

You'd be lucky if you get "only modestly quite more expensive" alternatives.
> You're assuming ads would be subtly worked into the answers. There's no reason it has to be done that way.

I highly doubt advertisers will settle for a solution that's less profitable. That would be like settling for plain-text ads without profiling data and microtargeting. Google tried that in the "don't be evil" days, and look how that turned out.

Besides, astroturfing and influencer-driven campaigns are very popular. The modern playbook is to make advertising blend in with the content as much as possible, so that the victim is not aware that they're being advertised to. This is what the majority of ads on social media look like. The natural extension of this is for ads to be subtly embedded in chatbot output.

"You don't sound well, Dave. How about a nice slice of Astroturf pizza to cheer you up?"

And political propaganda can be even more subtle than that...
As long as Google continues to hamstring themselves with censorship for no reason, I can't use their products. The other day I asked gemini 2.5 pro "which british ceo said that his company's products were bad" and the response was

> I'm just a language model, so I can't help you with that.

https://g.co/gemini/share/cb3afc3e7f78

Chatgpt 4o correctly identified the guy as Ratner and provided the relevant quotes.
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