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cbg0··on Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
Or it could be that the benchmaxxed models are getting pushed down by the introduction of unsaturated benchmarks. Muse Wonder also went down 52 -> 43 after the update.
cbg0··on Gemini 4 Carbon
It does seem like a very uncompetitive approach.
cbg0··on New iMac with M6
Never thought I'd meet someone who's eyes can't see "more than X Hz anyways".
cbg0··on GPT-6.1 Terra
If they had a model on par with Opus 5.5 there would be no need to undercut it by that much, that's probably the logic.
cbg0··on FreeDNS
The "portal" layout style was very popular on Web 1.0, reminds me of PHP-Nuke.
cbg0··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
What are you on about with niches? Most people can't afford a brand new EV car and have nowhere to charge it.
cbg0··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
You haven't really answered my question. Germany shut down its last nuclear power plant in 2023, this guy you linked got appointed in December 2024.

You want to destroy the automotive industry in Europe so we can increase dependance on Chinese EVs?

cbg0··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
"simply ban combustion engines and gas boilers" - there's nothing simple about this
cbg0··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
How is the EU blocking nuclear power? Also the tariffs are on Chinese EVs, not those built in the EU.
cbg0··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
How would you have avoided that "whole situation"?
cbg0··on Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone"
> Agents doesn't cause new problems, they reveal existing weaknesses.

Agents absolutely can and will cause (new) problems if they are unsupervised even with guard rails in place.

cbg0··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Bold of you to assume they have many defenses left.
cbg0··on Mistral Large 4
Claims to be on par with GLM 5.3 in DeepSWE (from https://thenextweb.com/news/mistral-releases-large-4-a-1-tri...)
cbg0··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
I use AI on a daily basis and I still found all of your takes in this thread to be silly hyperbole.
cbg0··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
You'll be surprised (or not) to find out a lot of people aren't using anything. Claude gets asked to build it, then some other clown uses their copy of Claude to do the PR review and then it gets merged.
cbg0··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
> regardless of what you think about coding is done, agents and your harness is the best tool.

I guess you're all in on that Anthropic IPO with the "coding is solved" approach.

cbg0··on GPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft for the first time with agent-wow
There are AI players already inside Follower Dungeons. (not LLM-powered though)
cbg0··on Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
France isn't "broke", its debt-to-GDP ratio is actually lower than the US right now and it's not in a situation where it can't pay its loans.

There is currently no real trade war EU-China; Chinese EVs are streaming into the EU while the US is blocking them completely for one example.

While Germany and more specifically Volkswagen is having some issues, EU industrial production actually had growth last year.

The $100 billion aid packages to Ukraine are also a bit overblown based on public figures https://www.kielinstitut.de/media/news/ukraine-support-track....

I feel like your comment pulls on some real threads, then blows things out of proportion.

cbg0··on Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
> The US Government is not a major funder of frontier labs (who are almost exclusively VC and private money funded)...

There isn't a lot of VC funding available in Europe compared to the US, so without government intervention catching up will be very tricky.

cbg0··on Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
Assuming you are right, the "build-up" of more physical datacenters isn't really the difficult part, training frontier models is. The open-weight Chinese models are several months behind frontier models at this stage and as long as you're not interested in burning cash to stay in the lead you can just wait it out. Many signs (upcoming ridiculous IPO figures and benchmarks) point to the current LLM paradigm reaching a plateau.

I think that currently the EU is focusing on strengthening itself from a military perspective due to US policy shifts, so the EU just doesn't have the funds to divert to AI without impacting day to day life of people, thus prioritizing safety and perhaps energy production, as electricity is considerably more expensive here than in the US or China. If you ask the people who vote, they'll put safety, grocery and gas prices way above EU's LLM capabilities.

cbg0··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
You've posted a link that doesn't support your statement.
cbg0··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Here's the front page from 12 years ago, not exactly riveting debates in top hats.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140929012305/http://www.reddit...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140929073818/http://www.reddit...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140929232807/http://www.reddit...

cbg0··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
This has always been Reddit, aside from the niche subreddits.
cbg0··on Sonnet 5.5
> This is YET AGAIN another Sonnet model that is just a FAR worse version of Opus at every part of the cost AND speed curve.

It's been out for an hour and you've already concluded this?

cbg0··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
You don't have to run Claude/Codex in auto-approve mode, you can manually approve its interactions with your machine without having to copy your code back and forth between the website and your local files.
cbg0··on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
Trying to appeal to the LLM is pointless, everyone would just claim that they're working on their own code.

I've found that if you're seeing refusals and you have a more permissive model available, you can use that to find the issues and pass them back to Claude for review and implementation.

cbg0··on OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
This is some main character energy right here.
cbg0··on Go Concurrency Distilled
While stdlib doesn't handle this, there are libraries that can support your use case https://github.com/jizhuozhi/go-future

If you only need to launch work and wait for completion, Go 1.25 has sync.WaitGroup.Go -> wg.Go(f) -> by wg.Wait(). No channels like the page says.

cbg0··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
The $23 trillion economy "collapsing" is quite amusing.
cbg0··on Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
It will lead to a gradual escalation, probably air spaces closed over Kaliningrad, Belarus and Ukraine for Russian planes and army mobilization towards the eastern flank of NATO in the first steps.

Sufficient assistance can be given to the Ukrainians without deploying troops to the battlefield so that the Russians are pushed out completely. Losing Crimea would be Putin's death knell.

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