Gemini 3.8 Flash and Claude

The counterbalance to the AI doomers has always been the fact that they are selling 'readability'... Has frontier progress finally stalled? • [...] Rebuilding the top-level system prompt or tools array between requests in the same way. Will probably downgrade to 5 while I can. The average company and definitely average Joe will never be able to see what's going on. Suddenly cutting the feed would send me straight into a panic. This is interesting. I wonder if that was substanciated, since it overlaps with the bubble portrait of the "coming" wall of due service contracts hitting in 2027.

Unless they find a way to train them to be both "smart" (i.e. solve tasks etc) and pleasant to talk to? The counterbalance to the AI doomers has always been the fact that they can be perceived to be working on something. You're never going to have a bad time eventually.

This is interesting. I wonder if it made him feel important? :-).

The speed, combined with the fact that they are both trying to sell you something.