I'm telling you, every time I see someone driving one it's the biggest dweeb alive

I'm about as AI-pilled as anyone. Stitch is the only Google powered AI product I use. How are they winning?

Never heard of it, seems like a Wix / Canva knock-off?

Have you missed the lessons of the last 25 years of US involvement in the middle east I guess?

I know the reaction to this, if you're a rational observer, is "OpenAI have cut corners or made concessions that Anthropic did not, that's the only thing that makes sense."

However, if you live in the US and pay a passing attention to our idiotic politics, you know this is right out of the Trump playbook. It goes like this:

* Make a negotiation personal

* Emotionally lash out and kill the negotiation

* Complete a worse or similar deal, with a worse or similar party

* Celebrate your worse deal as a better deal

Importantly, you must waste enormous time and resources to secure nothing of substance.

That's why I actually believe that OpenAI will meet the same bar Anthropic did, at least for now. Will they continue to, in the same way Anthropic would have? Seems unlikely, but we'll see.

You're missing an important part of the negotiation - Trump must benefit personally in some way. In this case, Greg Brockman has given by far the biggest single donation ($25m) to Trump's MAGA PAC in September last year.

I know the reaction to this, if you're a rational observer, is "OpenAI have cut corners or made concessions that Anthropic did not, that's the only thing that makes sense."

However, if you live in the US and pay a passing attention to our idiotic politics, you know this is right out of the Trump playbook. It goes like this:

* Make a negotiation personal

* Emotionally lash out and kill the negotiation

* Complete a worse or similar deal, with a worse or similar party

* Celebrate your worse deal as a better deal

Importantly, you must waste enormous time and resources to secure nothing of substance.

That's why I actually believe that OpenAI will meet the same bar Anthropic did, at least for now. Will they continue to, in the same way Anthropic would have? Seems unlikely, but we'll see.

Another good question: If OpenAI knew Anthropic wasn't a competitor... was the price higher? Will the federal government also pay more for a worse product?

You'd have to think so. They're really the only serious player left - I doubt Google would want to be involved, and xAI is a significant step down.

If you support openai, you support this admin, simple as

Lol. Lmao, even.

Software developers have spent the last twenty years blabbing about how product management is useless and coding is the one true skill.

Eh, in my experience, design has always been harder than coding. If I get my design right, the coding follows naturally and easily.

Coding is hard when you're learning it. "How do I use templates in C++? How do I handle error checking in Python?" etc. But it's the most basic piece of software development.

Pretty sick. How do you compare yourself with Conductor?

Conductor is definitely in the same space. Main points of differentiation that I am aware of are that we allow you to connect to remote servers via SSH, natively embed many more coding agents (21) with their full functionality, and are open-source.

> Put in whatever level of rigor matches your project needs, personal interest, and schedule!

This is the most refreshing, grounded response I've gotten in awhile <3

Well, when you clickbait/lie about your own premise you can’t really expect a decent conversation lol

?? What

You claim you don’t read the code. People believe you. Later you reveal that actually you do read the code, as well as metrics about the code. You just don’t read line by line and scrutinize them individually. Then you want to say their opinions weren’t grounded, but all that happened is you misrepresented your own argument

In certain, extenuating circumstances, I will read the code. It is not in my common / critical path. It's not how I'd describe my workflow.

All I’m saying is that

by ‘I don’t read code,’ I mean: I don’t do line-by-line review as my primary verification method for most product code. I do read specs, tests, diffs selectively, and production signals - and I would advocate escalating to code-reading for specific classes of risk.

Is not at all what people consider “not reading the code” to be