For example: I asked both to change a bunch of code into functions to pass into a `pipe` type function, and Gemini truly seemed to have no idea what it was supposed to do, and Claude just did it.

Maybe there was some user error or something, but after that I haven’t really used Gemini.

I’m curious if people are using Gemini and loving it are using it mostly for one-shotting, or if they’re working with it more closely like a pair programmer? I could buy that it could maybe be good at one but bad at the other?

1) We are all breathless that it is better. But a year has passed since GPT4. It’s like we’re excited that someone beat Usain Bolt’s 100 meter time from when he was 7. Impressive, but … he’s twenty now, has been training like a maniac, and we’ll see what happens when he runs his next race.

2) It’s shown AI chat products have no switching costs right now. I now use mostly Claude and pay them money. Each chat is a universe that starts from scratch, so … very easy to switch. Curious if deeper integrations with my data, or real chat memory, will change that.

- We were on stage in the famous closing Red Hot Chili Peppers show (like in the wings, looking out on the audience from behind the band). That was surreal. We could see the fires start in the distance, stuff getting ripped down, things starting to sort of go to hell. All while, the most amazing band of the moment is playing the most amazing songs 30 feet away from us. Quite a contrast between awesomeness and ... whatever the strange mix of emotions riots give.

- We learned that there was no Mountain Dew in the whole event because Coke got the contract, so we went out and bought many cases, drove it in through our special entrance, and basically auctioned it off. People were willing to pay $5 a can. We made a lot of money. Pretty sketchy.

- Worse/weirder, we had a backpacks full of ice to hold the Mountain Dew in while we walked around the crowd selling it, and people started to offer to buy ice from us to cool off. So once we ran out of Mountain Dew, we started yelling "Ice is nice! We got ice!" and selling it. That ... well, I feel like that was me experiencing a real microcosm of capitalism and the allure of artificial scarcity ... and not acting the way I would hope . Give away the damn ice man.

- We kind of just walked around backstage and there were so many super famous people that none of them felt very special, and they'd just kind of talk to you while you were in line for food. Ice Cube had some cool sneakers that my friend chatted with him about. George Clinton was chill. I think we talked with Erykah Badu for a while at some point. (Stars are not at all like this backstage at a normal concert, btw, which we also did a lot because of his father. A their normal concerts, these same performers are the center of the universe, and don't have time to chat with a bunch of high schoolers running around.)

Anyway, it was a very strange event, and we had a very strange vantage point.

1) You implementing something boards (like trello) on mobile. The well-established-in-all-the-apps-that-specialize-in-this behavior is snap scrolling.

2) Tiktok/stories/etc. When you scroll up or right, does it ever land you in between two stories? No. This is the exact behavior.

3) Presentations. Say you are building a presentation tool. The whole point is to define separate slides that are on screen one at a time. This is a very natural and appropriate use of this behavior.

So, yeah, carousels suck. But, this behavior is commonly used and useful in a lot of modern software.

Also fall of civilizations podcast is awesome!

Here’s a timeline of dynasties.

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chem/hd_chem.htm