My experience after a month or so of heavy use is exactly this. The AI is rock solid. I'm pretty consistently impressed with its ability to derive insights from the code, when it works. But the client is flaky, the backend is flaky, and the overall experience for me is always "I wish I could just use Claude".

Say 1 in 10 queries craps out (often the client OOMs even though I have 192Gb of RAM). Sounds like a 10% reliability issue but actually it just pushes me into "fuck this I'll just do it myself" so it knocks out like 50% of the value of the product.

(Still, I wouldn't be surprised if this can be fixed over the next few months, it could easily be very competitive IMO).

Antitrust enforcement has been letting us down for over two decades. If we don't have an oxygenation event, we'll go an entire generation where we only reward tax-collecting, non-innovation capital. That's unhealthy and unfair.

Our career sector has been institutionalized and rewards the 0.001% even as they rest on their laurels and conspire to suppress wages and innovation. There's a reason why centicorns petered out and why the F500 is tech-heavy. It's because big tech is a dragnet that consumes everything it touches - film studios, grocery stores, and God only knows what else it'll assimilate in the unending search for unregulated, cancerous growth.

FAANG's $500k TC is at the expense of hundreds of unicorns making their ICs even wealthier. That money mostly winds up going to institutional investors, where the money sits parked instead of flowing into huge stakes risks and cutthroat competition. That's why a16z and YC want to see increased antitrust regulations.

But it's really bad for consumers too. It's why our smartphones are stagnant taxation banana republics with one of two landlords. Nothing new, yet as tightly controlled an authoritarian state. New ideas can't be tried and can't attain healthy margins.

It's wild that you can own a trademark, but the only way for a consumer to access it is to use a Google browser that defaults to Google search (URLs are scary), where the search results will be gamed by competitors. You can't even own your own brand anymore.

Winning shouldn't be easy. It should be hard. A neverending struggle that rewards consumers.

We need a forest fire to renew the ecosystem.

Or we're all just used to eating things we don't like and smiling.

But they have suffered quite a lot of degradation and quality issues recently.

To be honest unless Anthropic does something very impactful sometime soon I think they're losing their moat they had with developers as more and more jump to codex and other tools. They kind of massively threw their lead imo.

have to say not sure what this even means and what the exact definition of a message is in this context.

with claude code max20 I was constantly hitting limits, with codex not once yet

> Reason #3a: Work with the model biases, not against

Another note on model biases is that you should lean into them. The tricky part with this is the only way to figure out a model's defaults is to have actual usage and careful monitoring (or have evals that let you spot it).

Instead of forcing the model to behave in ways it ignores, adapt your prompts and post-processing to embrace its defaults. You'll save tokens and get better results.

If the model keeps hallucinating some JSON fields, maybe you should support (or even encourage) those fields instead of trying to prompt the model against them.

Cut wood with the grain, not against it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_wei

No, I didn’t know running containers used “virtually no overhead.” It appears I can run millions of containers without any resource constraint? Is that some sort of cheat code?