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Because they respond to HN threads about their products? Which are likely Claude hooks monitoring for activity in the first place? Come on...

At least make an argument for switching vendors based on the quality or price of their service.


After I was mildly disappointed with GPT-6 Sol and Luna not improving intelligence and only cutting the price, I'm running Opus 5.5 today.

After the last month or so in the Codex app, I was pleased with the Claude app.

It might be a case of the grass always being greener on the other side, but this is what stands out:

After 3-4 hours of usage, the weekly usage limit moved by only 1%.

Compared to Astra where I can watch the limit draining live, this is a great improvement.

I'd estimate it 3x cheaper, and that's with a 450k context limit instead of the 258k in Codex.

So far Opus 5.5 appears less prone to stopping for no apparent reason at checkpoints in the middle of a longer task.

It doesn't open an internal browser with a useless comparison page, where it then proceeds to add notes despite no one having asked for it.

It is a breath of fresh air: I get the response in the chat, while the Codex app recently loves randomly opening artifacts instead.

Opus 5.5 xhigh made great progress on the task, more so than Astra High, but that could be random chance.

Oh, and the 'Auto' mode actually works and does not force me to instead run 'Full access' like in the Codex app, lest it blocks even 'git push'.


Don’t make too quick snap judgements. “Honeymooning”, or giving new subscriptions / upgrades extra usage or “juice” is pretty common industry practice amongst SaaS “growth hacking” for years. Sadly.

I think you're giving these files too much credit. There are no specs, they are freeform text. In this sense they are the same. The expectation of what could be in it by each vendor means nothing unless it's enforced.

This has been my experience for a year. Same with Opus models. This is how I think this tech will be best used in the long term - finding the one you vibe with most. Much like IDEs!

Your only issue was that the author was unaware of a subject and that the code is long. You didn’t even google the guy! Respectfully, I think you made a bad point and probably harmed your own stance with this post.

You should learn who the author is, then. Part of learning about our ecosystem.

> compelling novel game loops

Tell that to the mountain of failed AI slop games on Steam! As a game dev, building compelling, fun games is not even something humans are good at doing consistently. The AI can build the tech, but it can't make something 'fun' yet (unless your bar for fun is simply that a tool created a thing).


It's not really a moral issue, it's simply the definition of the word. Using an incorrect term to describe yourself knowing it is incorrect can be perceived as virtue-signaling or claiming your own moral superiority. For example, one could ask "why call yourself a vegan if you eat fish?".

There's no policing body here, but people are rightfully calling the double-standard out here.

Edit: Would also love to hear the ethics of why fish can be eaten when cows/chicken/pigs cannot. Doesn't sound ethically consistent to me at all.


I actually prefer not to call myself a vegan IRL both because of the issue you’re describing and because veganism is (rightfully) associated with having a toxic and intolerant culture. The only reason I said “vegan except fish” in my comment is because the title of the study used the word “vegan” and because the study was talking about veganism in a purely dietary/scientific lens, not an ethical one. I think this was a pretty reasonable thing to do.


If it doesn’t make sense for people to say “vegan except for chicken”, “vegan except for beef”, then why on earth would it make sense to say “vegan except fish”?

Fish aren’t lesser beings, they are living creatures like anything else.

Just stop saying “vegan except fish”. Say you eat plants and fish. That’s all you have to do.


> If it doesn’t make sense for people to say “vegan except for chicken”, “vegan except for beef”, then why on earth would it make sense to say “vegan except fish”?

I don't know why you take offense to someone saying "vegan except for beef" or "vegan except for fish." There is nothing inherently wrong with these statements. It just depends on whether you view veganism as a lifestyle or as a diet, which can vary depending on the context. In the context of a nutrition study, we are obviously talking about the diet, not the lifestyle.


Problems that need to be solved - 1. Distribution - corps own the browsers 2. Platforms - corps own these as well 3. Cost - hosting, moderation, etc.

You may very well be building a whole new intraweb


Agreed. Let's get to it.


A good term for that is pescatarian - as eating fish is neither vegan nor veg!


Indeed, not sure why you are being downvoted. Contribute to open source with the energy you have to call out missing features.


Because it's a lazy response. OP might not be a software developer. Should they learn complex software engineering to try and contribute or should they call out a missing feature that's important to them so the actual developers have some data on what to prioritise?


It's no lazier than saying "Still no <feature> support"


a) that's feedback

b) it's useful in a comment thread like this so people can quickly see what the 'caveats' mentioned in the title of the post are


Feedback in a forum stating something the developers are probably well aware people want in a location the developers might not even be reading is not particularly useful feedback. As for the comment thread utility, sure, I guess if you think that not reading the article is valuable for the HN community, but I could just as easily argue that pushing back against comments like that could be seen as valuable for a community that values more thoughtful feedback.


It was valuable for me. I've been waiting for Asahi on M3 and quickly wanted to know what the 'caveat' was. Saved me some time.


You're entitled to your opinion that scrolling to the last comment on the page is preferable to reading the article. I'm also entitled to mine that it's a net loss to the quality of conversation.


Apple could contribute as well, like Intel does for their Thunderbolt controllers.

Why are you demanding a user does that for free instead of the big corp that made the platform?


Did Intel push thunderbolt five hard in PC land? Most of the PC vendors seem to be taking a slow boat to China in that area.


The platform already supports it.


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