Thanks to the all powerful YouTube algorithms I was presented with this “Final Farewell” video from a now-deceased Irishman. I could see he was a very active Youtuber - 745 videos produced from 23 Mar 2018. Guess he lived some of his final days through YouTube presence, so naturally he thought he should end them there. His life. His choice. I hope his end was peaceful. Sounds like he’d been quite unwell.
A chart that shows OpenAI always ahead of Anthropic - or does it? #whenchartslie
As OpenAI try to move forward their models and apps they’re creating quite the muddle. My impression is that OpenAI are trying to do too much, too fast and in the process burning their users.
OpenAI just broke something that was working fine, in the name of progress. Software developer’s first rule, like doctors, should be “first do no harm.”
I’m a paying subscriber. I’ve been running Codex hard lately - finance modelling work, not so much straight coding - and my estimation of GPT’s capabilities had genuinely grown over recent weeks. Good performer. I was impressed. But not any more.
To prepare minutes I recorded a not-for-profit board meeting this week - ninety minutes, soft audio, everything sensitive - and let Google’s new Eloquent convert it locally. Nothing touched a cloud server. Eleven thousand words, on-device, done.
The original Voice Memos recording on my iPhone was quite soft. Board meetings are what they are. But Eloquent handled it better than I expected - the transcript came back clean, the filler words and false starts were stripped out, and I had a working draft of the minutes within a short time. Further refinement with GPT-5.5 and the final document was done. (Yes I am flirting with other models. Anthropic token inflation is becoming an issue - a topic for another day).
Justice is done in the face of FIFA corruption.
Claude Code can write native Swift good enough to ship a Mac App Store app. Anthropic’s own Claude desktop app is still built using Electron - a web browser (Chromium) wearing a costume.
Electron bundles a full Chromium browser and a Node.js runtime inside every app, so one codebase renders on Windows, macOS and Linux instead of three native builds. It’s why Slack, Discord and (until recently) Notion feel identical everywhere. It’s also why they’re memory-hungry, slow to open and never quite right: patchy keyboard shortcuts, no proper native menu behaviour, battery life your MacBook resents.
Elon Musk built Grok as the anti-woke alternative to ChatGPT and Gemini. According to a new analysis of AI political values, it would probably have voted for Biden.
The Economist put five major AI models through a global values survey normally reserved for humans. Every model, including Grok, landed left of centre on questions about wealth, merit and inequality.
Twenty-three minutes. That is how long it takes a social media account set up to look like a 16 to 18 year old boy to be shown misogynistic content, according to the audit Tanya Plibersek, Federal minister for social services, cites in this piece. Not sought out. Delivered.
Plibersek’s argument is blunt: young men are not choosing this content, they are being stalked by it. Everyday frustrations, rejection, loneliness, a bad week, get reframed by the algorithm as proof of a system rigged against men. Writing in The Saturday Paper, she traces how that reframing hardens into grievance, and how fast grievance gets monetised.