You name a fair point here. I think the part where they’re using an LLM for natural language processing makes a lot of sense. Being able to describe something you don’t know the name of is a genuinely helpful feature. But you’re right that a better implementation would drop the wasteful image generation in place of searching up real images from their product library (which they’re still doing anyway because at some point they have to find a real product to sell you). It feels like that step was maybe added to make it “more AI”, probably at a manager’s insistence.

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I guess I should specify that I’m selfhosting Notesnook, so the data never leaves my personal device ecosystem, and the central sync server is a big plus for me. No account required either (apart from the ones I create on the server I control).

If - hypothetically - you were trying to convince me that this is better than Notesnook, what would your pitch be?

Trump still hasn’t figured out that Netanyahu is deliberately tanking every piece deal.

Corporate clients pay per million tokens. Regular consumers pay monthly.

Because they can’t. They literally cannot charge enough to make a profit and still have anyone use the service. This isn’t like Uber where they started out at like half the price of taxis and then crept up to “As expensive as taxis.” Anthropic, like all genAI providers, have been charging a tiny fraction of what their service actually costs in most cases.

There’s no path to profitability here. Corporate clients are already complaining that AI is too expensive with not enough upside at the subsidized prices. And regular consumers are sold an all you can eat product that they can’t afford to run as an all you can eat.

Imagine if you’re actually paying a few dollars every time you type an input into Claude… Now imagine it goes off the rails and hallucinates a completely useless output. Before that was “Shrug, oh well, retry.” Now? That’s a customer service ticket. That’s a vending machine that ate your money.

Imagine that happens across thousands of inputs for a corporate client. It will. We already know it will because the hallucinations are baked in and the industry has stopped when trying to pretend they can get rid of them. Imagine those sales calls.

The only reason these guys are valued like they are is because venture capital is still buying into the mythical notion that this is “the future”. Not based on any evidence, any facts, any plan… Just vibes, and a fear of missing out.

OK, yeah, this is awesome. I will definitely be making use of these tricks in future.

Overall, Canada continued to overperform on the list, occupying 14 spots, including five of the top 10.

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He’s such a fascinating paradox. He’s pure id, so he lies constantly, but he also constantly blurts out the truth because he’s too stupid to know when it’s a smart time to lie and when it’s a smart time to shut the fuck up.

This has never been what “conservative” means in practice. You can go right back to the father of Conservativism, Edmund Burke, and you’ll find a consistent pattern of being gleefully willing to destroy and tear down anything that gets in the way of their core goal; preventing the enfranchisement of the disenfranchised.

He’s wrong, of course. Trump is the purest expression of conservative principles we’ve ever seen.

In an interview with TMZ published on Friday, Vanilla Ice said that he did not think the concert should be “any political thing,” adding, “I don’t even vote, so I don’t even care.”

The rapper, who has appeared at a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago, said he would be happy to perform for anyone.

“You play for your fans,” he said. “And I’ll go play for Putin, and I’ll play in Iran if you want. It don’t matter.”

Vanilla Ice continuing to be just unbelievably cringe.

What makes you think they’d be unhappy about it?

My wife has a good way of putting it; “We can’t be a progressive country if we’re not a country at all.” It sucks that we live in a world where such things are necessary, but they are necessary no matter how much we wish they weren’t. You don’t have to be pro-war to be supportive of a strong enough military.

They’re just getting ahead of the curve on inflation. Don’t worry, they’ll have a $500 and $1000 ready soon enough. Those will be your new $5s and $10s by the time Donald is done with the US.

Good news; you can make someone regret just about anything if you try hard enough.

Good call, honestly.

They were the start of it, but they didn’t account for all of it. And, to be clear, it’s very much an over-correction. As usual they’re going to swing too hard in the opposite direction figuring that everyone else is doing it too, so if they have to hire people back, well they’ll be doing it in a flooded labour market so they can probably just re-hire the same people for less money.