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New comment by jjani in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

jjani — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:56:21 +0000

I really struggle to see the usecase of Grok Code Fast when you have Qwen 3 Coder right there providing much better outputs while still being fast and cheap.

New comment by jjani in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

jjani — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 02:45:49 +0000

Absolutely, sometimes you want, or indeed need such complexity. Some work in settings where they would want it all of the time. IMHO, most people, most of the time don't really want it, and don't want to have to prompt it every time to avoid it. That's why I think it's still very useful to build up experience with the three frontier models, so you can choose according to the situation.

New comment by jjani in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

jjani — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:23:35 +0000

Gemini 2.5 Pro = Long context king, image input king

GPT-5 = Overengineering/complexity/"enterprise" king

Claude = "Get straightforwaed shit done efficiently" king

New comment by jjani in "The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset"

jjani — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:23:29 +0000

Yes. For all the things that get done in the name of "national security", this is the biggest threat to national security there is.

New comment by jjani in "The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset"

jjani — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:16:23 +0000

Haha, this does make me laugh a bit. They've not been doing antything illegal (they almost certainly have fwiw) because they've been the ones capturing regulations and massive influencing laws.

Furthermore they've violated plenty of consumer protection laws in countries where those are strong, so the entire premise doesn't hold up.

New comment by jjani in "Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime"

jjani — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:45:43 +0000

How is this a concern? Does Amazon not sell frozen food (no fresh food from Amazon around here)? Otherwise why would Walmart be unable to

New comment by jjani in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

jjani — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:41:52 +0000

Not sure if you're joking or serious? Every model has "degenerate" behavior it can be coerced into. Sonnet is even more apologetic on average.

New comment by jjani in "How did sports betting become legal in the US?"

jjani — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:40:12 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to answer. In my view, it's easy to legislate away at least 50% of the harm. Not perfect, but much better than 0%. This would be banning recommender systems and infinite scroll feeds for platforms above a certain size ("gatekeepers"). I'm sure there's a number of loopholes, and you might still believe that even this kind of measure would create more than it solves.

On the supermajority bit, in more and more countries there's already a supermajority for banning phones from schools, more and more for banning it for children altogether, and so on. I think that's a clear sign people would actually be in favour of quite a lot of measures to tone things down, like the one I mentioned. Total bans I wouldn't vouch for.

New comment by jjani in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

jjani — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:18:35 +0000

Can't agree with that. Gemini doesn't lead just on price/performance - ironically it's the best "normie" model most of the time, despite it's lack of popularity with them until very recent.

It's bad at agentic stuff, especially coding. Incomparably so compared to Claude and now GPT-5. But if it's just about asking it random stuff, and especially going on for very long in the same conversation - which non-tech users have a tendency to do - Gemini wins. It's still the best at long context, noticing things said long ago.

Earlier this week I was doing some debugging. For debugging especially I like to run sonnet/gpt5/2.5-pro in parallel with the same prompt/convo. Gemini was the only one that, 4 or so messages in, pointed out something very relevant in the middle of the logs in the very first message. GPT and Sonnet both failed to notice, leading them to give wrong sample code. I would've wasted more time if I hadn't used Gemini.

It's also still the best at a good number of low-resource languages. It doesn't glaze too much (Sonnet, ChatGPT) without being overly stubborn (raw GPT-5 API). It's by far the best at OCR and image recognition, which a lot of average users use quite a bit.

Google's ridiculously bad at marketing and AI UX, but they'll get there. They're already much more than just a "bang for the buck" player.

FWIW I use all 3 above mentioned on a daily basis for a wide variety of tasks, often side-by-side in parallel to compare performance.

New comment by jjani in "How did sports betting become legal in the US?"

jjani — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:46:39 +0000

Still interested in hearing your answer, and your reasoning behind it, as you didn't engage with the question.

New comment by jjani in "How did sports betting become legal in the US?"

jjani — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:06:08 +0000

They said, watching society go down the abyss.

Have you noticed how things are going? Do you genuinely believe these are non-factors?

New comment by jjani in "How did sports betting become legal in the US?"

jjani — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 03:04:09 +0000

If true, that's definitely a US localized thing. The places I've lived in the big winners in the big lotteries are disproportionately often middle class compared to what you'd expect if the large majority of buyers were poor.

New comment by jjani in "Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID"

jjani — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:07:09 +0000

Does it require using a Google or Apple product?

New comment by jjani in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"

jjani — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:10:28 +0000

Correct! And he hit a nerve laying this logic bare, which is exactly why The Guardian took the unprecedented and absurd measure of removing his manifesto from a decades-old article when it went viral a year or 2 ago. Lest the populace get to see things for what they are. At the same time unmasking their veil that despite their pretenses, they're just as much of a capital interests-captured rag as their "competitors".

New comment by jjani in "UK, Canada and Australia formally recognise Palestinian state"

jjani — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:48:15 +0000

Haven't come across this take before, what's the idea behind it?

New comment by jjani in "South Korea's President says US investment demands would spark financial crisis"

jjani — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:41:01 +0000

Hope you speak Korean! Straight from the horse's mouth. [0] The companies themselves were well aware they were working illegally. People were even doing visa runs to chain them, it doesn't get much more blatant then that.

It's pretty obvious and not a real point of contention. Being honest about this does not support the raid, and acting as if it does helps nobody and only hurts.

[0] https://www.teamblind.com/kr/post/%ED%98%84%EC%B0%A8-%EC%97%...

New comment by jjani in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

jjani — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:16:06 +0000

In that second? No. A week later when, as a result, every other company has gotten their act togeter? Yes, the world is an incredibly better place.

New comment by jjani in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

jjani — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:11:17 +0000

I would love to see a study that explores whether those taxes cover the negative externalities compared to other forms of transit, because that seems incredibly unlikely.

New comment by jjani in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

jjani — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:52:42 +0000

> I was expecting to see protests and riots and fires and further uncelebrated but deemed necessary violence in response to the slow ablation of freedom and liberty.

To what % are you confident thst you would be one of the first participants in these, were the same to happen to your own country?

New comment by jjani in "The EU Just Killed ARR"

jjani — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:03:14 +0000

As the domain suggests, lovely piece of examplary slop.