>> My cat

> The incentives here aren't aligned for long-term viability. Who pays for food, vet bills, and inevitable property damage? It's all owner-funded with zero revenue generation.

https://news.ysimulator.run/item/1814

the economist is one of my favorite archetypes

The comments there are hilarious

> If you're going to post pet photos, at least learn how to expose properly. That shadow detail is completely crushed.

> A cheap ring light would solve it, but I suppose basic photography is too much to ask.

> Next time, try shooting in RAW and editing in Lightroom. Even a cat deserves decent composition.

I agree with these comments.

Some of it did have merit. The "think step-by-step" trick is nowadays formalised in chain-of-thought reasoning.

Gemini has been like that forever. Even when given the full manual of my bread baking machine, it still gave me the wrong program number; when I was lost at the airport, it gave me completely false directions, etc. Neither ChatGPT nor Claude has let me down like that in recent years.

The only thing Gemini has over those is integration with my Google account, which is genuinely useful. But I reckon Google could release open weights for their whole product line without affecting market share much.

Not sure about the overall claim, but that video is fake (/ misleading) at least. Seems to be taken from this LiveBoot showcase: https://youtube.com/shorts/26eK5_dU7BM

If the entire industry stopped training new models, and just served Opus 5.5, I would be perfectly satisfied.

I don't know about its absolute performance, but Opus 5.5 is very "tasteful". It came out a week after I switched from Codex and started lamenting how much worse Opus felt to use than Sol, but whatever Anthropic did to fix it worked.

Hopefully this isn't a fluke and they'll be able to keep on track with future releases.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing! We can stop here and our lives would still be forever transformed.

While that 20% is a dealbreaker for me personally, a friend of mine prefers it over real chocolate. So I suppose the difference can go both ways. Anecdotally, if you enjoy very milky, sugary chocolate, you'll probably like these alternative chocolates just fine.

My experience in Japan is quite the opposite. A good place gets 3 stars because it's up to expectations, while any perceived slight from staff can easily get that down to 2 stars. Reviews of 4 stars or more from locals tend to correspond to some special experience.

Yes! Great point. Japan seems to be the only place where people actually rate sensibly.

Which, of course it is. There's a reason we're going back there, again, next week.

Enjoy your trip! The weather has finally cooled down, so you're coming at a good time.

Japanese customers are very harsh with ratings on Google as well. When I was living in Japan I learned that restaurants with like 4.2 stars were often really good. It's calibrated differently inareas with a lot of foreign tourists though.

I built a SuperDisplay alternative for MacOS to use my Samsung tablet as a secondary display — feels just like plugging in a monitor now. I also put together an extremely specialised video streaming host and client to get better quality and stability than Discord's screenshare, alongside an Android TV app to cast this video stream. (It has a bunch of features like media control passthrough and display/window selection on the receiver side; things no existing application implements because of how intrusive it'd be for the sender.)

> Built the hard way.

Sure

Glad it exists, but if the broken entry animation of the landing page is anything to go by I'm not very hopeful as to the quality of the user experience.

It looks fine to me.

ClickUp was the first software whose AI integration was actually useful to me, but simple because its UX is so mind-bogglingly terrible that I'd rather give an LLM a minute to give me the information I'm looking for.

I try to interface with ClickUp exclusively through the API/MCP whenever possible. LLMs have been a lifeline to having to use that UI. At one point their search was so bad that I wrote my own search by scraping the existing tickets/docs and then setting up webhooks to get future updates and indexing it myself in sqlite and beating their search both in speed (by a count many seconds, sometimes there's would timeout) and in quality most of the time.

But really I live on bookmarks to get to the handful of places I want to go because I hate navigating their UI and the MCP so I can just have Claude move around tickets, log new ones, update statuses, etc.