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New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:02:54 +0000

Seems like they've changed it again already.

New comment by steve1977 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

steve1977 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:34:57 +0000

It's not really surprising that a company that is essentially built on stolen IP will steal more IP when there's an opportunity .

New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:29:10 +0000

> How can a company like OpenAI mess up so badly?

It's exactly companies like OpenAI who can mess up like this. It's mostly just hot air, but with a lot of money to burn.

New comment by steve1977 in "Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust"

steve1977 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:09:25 +0000

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/faculty-staff/directory...

New comment by steve1977 in "Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust"

steve1977 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:10:33 +0000

Bjarne Stroustrup is 75 years old. I don't think that age per se tells us much.

New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:58:43 +0000

The button changes from green to blue.

New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:55:13 +0000

> Also, when you toggle btween ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Codex, nothing changes. This is super confusing.

By the way, it seems ChatGPT is confused as well:

https://imgur.com/a/O1Aj6jz

New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:50:22 +0000

I guess Work can be marketed to MBAs, while Codex cannot.

New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:49:17 +0000

> I can also imagine the product development internally is moving so fast that they're trying to reconcile everything and can't.

What are they developing? I see no improvements (talking about the frontend / apps, not the models)

New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:40:30 +0000

Well, at least for me, they are not broken. They are gone.

New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:39:43 +0000

I had a similar effect on macOS.

New comment by steve1977 in "ChatGPT Work"

steve1977 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:39:16 +0000

It really is a mess. An hour or so ago, the download for macOS was called ChatGPT.dmg. However the app in there was still called Codex. But it installed ChatGPT.

But it seems to be fixed now.

Also, subtitling Work with "For getting work done" and Codex with "For developers" is a bit aggressive towards developers ;)

New comment by steve1977 in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

steve1977 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:51:54 +0000

Sounds like something out of a Douglas Adams novel.

New comment by steve1977 in "Resetting Xbox"

steve1977 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:26:26 +0000

I guess it becomes a problem when the money-hungry people still make money, but the larger organization doesn't.

New comment by steve1977 in "Resetting Xbox"

steve1977 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:50:41 +0000

Keep in mind though that Sony is/was actually a manufacturer of physical media.

New comment by steve1977 in "Resetting Xbox"

steve1977 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:48:00 +0000

> We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3. We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directly responsible individuals (DRIs) who own key decisions and outcomes.

This does sound quite reasonable actually.

Also, I think I didn't read "AI" anywhere, which is refreshing.

New comment by steve1977 in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"

steve1977 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:35:13 +0000

But that itself doesn't tell us yet how much time it saved you at the end of the day.

New comment by steve1977 in "Factories are just rooms"

steve1977 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:29:47 +0000

Probably something related to Java

New comment by steve1977 in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

steve1977 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:42:59 +0000

> In many ways, the lack of density actually makes it easier for you to install new lines. It's a lot easier and faster to plow through a long strip of grass next to a highway than it is to deal with a built up ubran location (I've actually done this work).

If endpoints are spread too far out, it's not hard technically to connect them, but it might be very expensive and not feasible economically.

If density is too high on the other hand (say NYC), it's becoming hard to technically connect, because, as you mentioned, there's already a lot of "stuff" there that you have to be careful about. But it might be much more interesting economically.

I think Switzerland just hits a sweet spot between these two. It's dense enough to be profitable but sparse enough to make construction still feasible. So essentially, we're just lucky.

New comment by steve1977 in "Kim Dotcom Loses Court of Appeal Bid to Block Extradition to the U.S."

steve1977 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:27:33 +0000

This and also Epstein, which so far resulted in almost no convictions.