Thursday will be the rest of the infrastructure
Then Friday we can turn off civilization for the weekend. Somebody remember to flip it back on Sunday night.
At least OpenAI has the decency to reset after a serious outage.
It's almost at a point now that if I use anything but Fable, the quality is subpar, Compared to alternatives (closed and open). The only reason I use Fable is because my harnesses still depend on claude code.
I think there are some anti-patterns in CC that cause the issue - less a deficiency with other models.
Not to mention a lot of the harness is just built around the misbehaviors of anthropics models.
It's a lot of the instruction when it gets given to other models actually degrades their performance, not because the models are bad, but because they don't have the same underlying issues as Claude.
Claude API - 99.27%
Claude Code - 99.16%
Claude.ai - 99.14%
At any large tech company these numbers would get entire teams of engineers fired. Anthropic, meanwhile, has been busy selling its “better than human engineers” AI while not managing to crack three 9s of availability.
Is Github not a large tech company?
With Chinese competition just months behind them, they'd need to show a reasonable pathway to some kind of singularity event to justify whatever crazy valuation they intend to get.
Because the recent products for builders ain't it
Really shows how isolated their government systems must be.
Jumping to another company’s offering because of one instance doesn’t seem like that’s going to meaningfully change your experience. I’m guessing there was more to it, but that’s how it came across in your first post.
Fucking morons over there.
lmao
Heavy sarcasm here if it's not obvious. Of course I know why.
But on my personal (pro) subscription- "Claude is at capacity right now."
Hm.
Availability aside they've really made me appreciate OpenAI and cheer for other competitors in the marketplace even if I have mixed feelings about using Chinese models.
It's funny how Fable reflects the company that produced it.
I wonder if from now on we have to switch providers every six months or so.
When it comes to most companies, there is no reward for loyalty.
I only use CC or Codex for a quick MVP once every few months or so.
God save you if you have a company with narrow but correct technical tradeoffs, because you operate at scale.
Opus from 4.7 one will wreck your code and argue for hours with your engineers.
Certain parts of our company have had to mandate 4.6 and a training doc to explain why our current choice is both the cost efficient and performant one and shouldn't just be ripped out.
Newer models will re-litigate the same bad, known failed architectures over and over again.
wish i was joking.
One team I worked with had tests for the product we made ranging from IE6 to IE11, for example. We did demos in-company where people would poke at the products before launch, play with it. When it reached production, it was rock solid stuff. Our motto was "quality is non-negotiable": we were willing to cut scope but never rush things.
I think things changed since then. "Move fast and break things" was a change, and the bill always comes.
For instance "formal verification" has been a dirty word, but now that you can write a proof in lean and have an AI generate an implementation which satisfies it, it seems the bounds of what's economical has changed in a very pro-QA direction.
Not to say that that's the silver bullet, but there are many similar examples worth exploring.
But I've been interviewing SDETs lately and maybe I've just been unlucky but I don't see a lot of candidates that are ready to rise to meet this challenge.
We stopped tending to that garden and now that we have a recipe that calls for it's fruits, they're underripe.
We'll be fine no matter how Anthropic fares.
I guess they would need to control/"own" more of their customers data in proprietary formats. Not markdown/source code in English with agents running on customers' machines.
Something cloud/web-based, "preferably".
ba dum tsss
(sorry couldn’t help myself)
I still believe Claude has a better UI/UX in the web interface, but tolerating Anthropic's bullshit is not worth it.
Recent case: had to plan a trip involving multiple bus switches. Gpt 5.6 Sol proposed a route that would bring me to a dead end, since it was sunday and a specific bus had a different route on weekends. Opus 5 correctly identified that and built a route that worked.
But yes, Darios wife trying to get funding from Epstein for a porn studio says a lot about the founder.
Both Cami Clark and Melania Trump can properly be judged on their involvement with Trump, Epstein (or possibly Trump and Epstein) alone.
I think the Epstein money thing reflects extremely poorly on Cami Clark's judgement. Basic due diligence should have shown up that he went to prison for something very anti-women, and even then it was clear he secured a shady deal with a prosecutor.
I don't know how it reflects on Amodei except that her presence as a sort of off-the-books "adviser" is yet more evidence that Anthropic runs by giving Dario a play pen to be a "visionary" (a bunch of advisers and his only direct report, a chief of staff) while his sister actually runs the gig.
Of course this is speculative, but this is my guess about her. Darios assiciation with her also indicates a lot about his moral compass.
Imagine what we don't know.
Also there is a very big difference for a woman to participate in porn (usually they regret it) and a women trying to get other women to make porn.
None of that is necessarily indicative of trafficking or prostitution, but banks and payment providers tend to run scared of it, so I suppose if one does want serious investment to make a studio, there are relatively few people you can go to.
She went to Epstein because she knew he was very rich and unbothered by that association, I am sure. The fact that she must also have known who he was — a sex offender who basic due diligence would have told her was likely a trafficker — is what is ugly.
What is bizarre about it is that if she had taken his money then needed to go to payment providers, she would have had an extra millstone around her neck, because they definitely do due diligence. But maybe Epstein had clout enough to offset his reputation.
Not going to too get into questions of porn and regret, except to say that even in a post-onlyfans world I think "regret" is often shorthand for "made to regret", which is rather different. It's the same for art and life models, which is where my creative experience lies. People are always out there trying to project their morality onto things that are not their business, so subsequent "regret" is often a practical, imposed matter.
This is why I think it's important that we judge these women for the clearer questions of morality that have nothing to do with porn.
Source?
The only issue with relying on local models is when you need them to prompt other models, and you might need to offload or switch models constantly which adds significant overhead.
But when it all works, its truly awe inspiring.