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People write out books on their phones. There's no need to be so rigid in the distinction between the types of device.

But I do agree with the original point that everyone has failed to make a unified interface for both modes and a distinct switch would be better until they can converge from real world learned lessons.

Apple will never make a product like that though.


They will if/when Google does, which may happen this year.

Legacy admission was removed in response to affirmative action being destroyed by the Trump administration.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. They were not "removed", they were made to be disallowed if and only if the school wanted to receive a certain kind of government funding. Some schools have enough money that they can ignore this. Notably, Stanford said they would give up the funding to keep their policy of legacy admissions.

So the richest, most prestigious schools where legacy admissions are a gateway to the upper classes, will keep the policy.


> affirmative action being destroyed by the Trump administration.

Affirmative action was gutted by SCOTUS when Biden was president. Not that it was popular before. California of all places rejected it by 56-44 margin in 2020.


It's impossible to justify the jump in the expense unless you are directly working on something that makes you money. Messing around on a hobby project, doing some quick research, and getting personalized notifications was a no brainer for 200 a year.

The product keeps getting worse so I will definitely evaluate options and possibly switch if management keeps screwing up the product.


One good thing about the destruction of Twitter was that there were less of these "some 'people' on the Internet are mad about a thing" articles.

Yea this isn't a thing and is just another scare tactic that gets dragged out when Ad Nauseum is brought up as the better solution. It's banned in the Chrome because it works

I don't know, some of the other Black Mirror episodes ended up being right on the money.

Ah yes, "banned because it works"... That's why lots of stuff is banned /s


Cool


Apple is producing multiple series that each could be in contention for a top spot on best sci Fi TV shows of all time.

Which ones?

Foundation, For All Mankind, Silo, Pluribus, Monarch. See was pretty good but is over

Invasion isn't as good as the above but still better than a lot of shows before it.

Severance second season made me question the show's quality sadly


Dunno what gp likes, but IMO Foundation is incredible.

The TV can take all the screenshots it wants in that scenario. It isn't connected to the Internet

Why is management at Anthropic trying so hard to ruin their reputation with developers? I missed the OpenClaw hype but it was something that kept me excited about my yearly subscription.

It makes no sense to do one of the higher tier plans unless they are directly generating you money.


They care about developers from companies that are on their team/enterprise plans or using bedrock.

Individual users barely matter. That's probably also the same group that decides to switch to Codex/Kimi/[whatever the hottest agent on any given day] on a whim, which Anthropic doesn't necessarily want to do business with.


feel like its beyond optimistic on their part, just starting to hear their name be blended with companies desires on job listings, and they are destroying the goodwill of the devs who surely are the main reason their name has landed there. They aren't dug in like a microsoft, maybe they get some staying power for nocode people who feel trapped, but im done with their nonsense already and won't recommend them anywhere. Other stuff is good enough already to match.

> Individual users barely matter.

Individuals are the ones that push for new tools at work though.


A fraction of them do. Many just use whatever the employer provides to get their job done. HN users only represent a small sample of the overall software developers which is nowhere nearly enthusiastic about new things.

Source: what I witnessed at my company


In the end, companies are made of individuals. In my previous company, I'm one of the individual who advocate for Claude Code adoption. Amongst my circle too, most who have the authority to make an impact on the AI direction. Safe to say I no longer suggest Anthropic to anyone anymore.

This is facts. Most of the devs at the huge companies Anthropic and the like try to court are using Copilot since it comes with MS365.

they don't care about their reputation with devs, they care about their reputation with people that can write them big fat checks

At my company, devs were the ones pushing for the Claude subscription. Left to management, we would have only had GitHub Copilot – we already have an existing relationship with them and the tool is good enough.

If Anthropic is intent on losing the goodwill of the devs, they might not be happy with the consequences. Their product is quite commoditized at this point – the latest GPT, Gemini or GLM is just as good for most enterprise tasks.


Exactly the same for me, and I'm now ... "worried" isn't quite right, but you know what I mean, that they will back out. But to what? We had copilot before which was cheaper, and worked reasonably well with the A\ models, but I'm not even sure those will be there (Opus is no longer on my cheapest paid Copilot sub at home), and I've no doubt OpenAI will jack up their prices soon enough and/or do the "exclusivity" thing so they can only be accessed by their own clients.

Where I work. Medium size, base in Europe company. It is paying over 1800 per dev in AI tools. Home users stand no chance.

Per what time frame? Day, week, month, or year?

> Why is management at Anthropic trying so hard to ruin their reputation with developers?

They follow the money, like every other company.


I suspect their ICP is changing from developers to enterprise decision makers, completely different personas

Also note that they are letting OpenClaw be used again with `claude -p`, so a partial reversal

And I thought MS was confused one on how to do pricing and business decisions.

Last I saw they have 21 products or services named Copilot. I think they still win the confusion prize.

We should have "The Copilot Award goes to..." Every year for the most confusing product name/lineup

I love it. It’ll be doubly funny when the Xbox marketing team wins the Copilot Confusion Award.


They got contracts from Enterprises now

It is nobody's responsibility to ensure billion dollar companies are profitable. Use them until local models are good enough

I think DJs with even a light catalog of their own original music will become some of the most important artists instead. Nobody has any interest in going back to the old system.

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