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Grok is stuck in a difficult place - not the best model at anything, and not the cheapest either. It's hard to make a case for using it on any dimension, even before you factor in the history (I'm not sure suggesting the company uses the model that refers to itself as "MechaHitler" is the way to a promotion).
I think the value is much lower (maybe even negative) when you're still trying to work out what shape the code will take, in an initial implementation.
Of course, as others have pointed out, nuanced opinion doesn't get clicks or YouTube views.
None of these were Theo's take. He was pushing the idea that unit tests in general were a waste of time because you could be shipping new features instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvBHyip4peo for an example of this. The nicest possible interpretation on this is that he's deliberately saying something he knows is wrong to attract attention.
Every time I've ever seen one of his videos it's pretty clear he has very little understanding of development or engineering. I first became aware of him from his early "unit tests are a waste of time" stuff, and it seems his skillset is building a personal brand. Fair play, he's clearly talented at that, but that doesn't make his opinion on anything else worthwhile.
I'm sure all these people on Reddit that talk about having 5 Claude Max 20x plans and hitting the weekly limits on them all have a ton of these loaded.
- The Polestar vehicles most recently banned are made in Charleston SC
- Fossil fuel industries in the US receive huge subsidies
- Non-Chinese brands (Hyundai/ Kia) produce models with similar pricing
If the Chinese models remain predominantly open source then it would probably be for the best. Unfortunately I'm not convinced they will, with examples like Qwen Max showing what could happen.
It'll be interesting to see how far this protectionism goes.
The harness (Claude Codex, Codex, Pi etc) keeps throwing things into the context and executing tools (as directed by the model) until the success criteria is satisfied.
The "rules" of using AI successfully are basically just the rules of any successful development team. Break things down into clearly defined chunks, make the success criteria clear and provide a way to get the right feedback on how the system is running (logs, metrics, traces etc).
This is the beginning end of the hyperscaler era, not a shift from US hyperscalers to Chinese hyperscalers. Taking Nvidia's extremely lucrative market is the goal.
- Your AI data centres will run only on renewable energy
- Your AI data centres will not use evaporative cooling
Frankly, the idea of having to decipher what a picture is supposed to represent to use a skill fills me with horror.
I've only seen it in accounts that weren't actively using bedrock, which is annoying but not business ending.
AWS needs to get on top of this sort of thing before people lose confidence in their platform, but I fear they may have lost too many staff to be able to get it the attention it needs.
I got a random invoice for $45.08 back in March, despite not having auto top up enabled. Trying to reach support met with a brick wall. Based on the post I linked to, I'm not the only one facing this problem.
https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproje...
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The only solution is to switch out of auto mode, which now seems to be the default every time I exit plan mode. Very annoying.A couple of generations ago these were uncontroversial statements, now most people think you are crazy for suggesting such a thing. I think you can trace a lot of the problems in the western world back to this.
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to clearing the context, and I also tend to provide the right files to work on (or at least the right starting point).
I had seen prior to using the model that it starts producing much worse results when the context used is larger, so my usage style probably helps getting better results. I work like this with Claude Code anyway, so it wasn't a big change.
OpenCode picked up my CLAUDE.md files and skills straight away, and I got similar performance to Opus 4.6.
Raised with support immediately, after being told a human would look at it I've not been able to get anything further.