sohois
10hr ago
Claude Code largely defined the 'coding agent' that now powers most usage of LLMs (I don't know who invented the first one, probably Cursor?) and this is a big reason why Claude has become the dominant player aside from the quality of their models. It took a long time for ChatGPT to have Codex in a similar state and last I used Antigravity it was still well behind in basic usability.
So there's a lot of lock-in, much as ChatGPT still dominates in the public chatbot arena.
I think with Codex 5.3 it was generally felt that OpenAI finally had a competitive coding agent and since then I think you could have easily switched between the frontier models of Anthropic and OpenAI. Honestly no idea how you've had an equivalent experience with Gemini though.
Another point is that outside of pure coding, Anthropic still seems quite a bit further in Enterprise. If you want an agent that can easily connect to most of your tech stack and you're in Sales, Marketing, HR, etc. then Claude still clears
sohois
3d ago
I would say that John Cage's 4'33 is definitely not better than those two albums so your assertion is false
sohois
3d ago
Mostly The Strokes new album Reality Awaits. I'm ready to concede that this might be their best album, despite having none of their best songs overall.
When the album launched, I was all prepared to post on the motte about its launch and reference their previous album, The New Abnormal. This is because I distinctly recall a post on the Motte about that album, and how good some of the new tracks were shortly before it's release.
Not trusting any kind of search, I went to the main page and sorted by 'Old', thinking that the launch of the Motte must have been pretty close. And I was right. Only about a year separated the 2, just in the wrong direction. Turns out the Motte was launched well past The New Abnormal, despite, as mentioned, my clear recollection of talking about it here.
Perhaps The Motte and /r/themotte simply blurred into one in my mind? I'm not really sure, seeing as a reddit search also didn't turn up the posts I so clearly remembered. In any case I was all prepared to turn this experience into a longer post on the ephemeral nature of time and my own personal passage of sites and forums that led me here. But then I figured no one would care that much and gave up
sohois
6d ago
It's funny seeing this post bemoaning how litrpg/progression fantasy/xianxia/etc. have failed to get any physical traction aside from Dungeon Crawler Carl, and then the exact same day see this post from The Wandering Inn:
https://old.reddit.com/r/WanderingInn/comments/1vl5yys/blog_20_beware_of_chicken_and_billboards/
The physical release of the first few Wandering Inn volumes approaches rapidly, with enough juice behind it to even get billboard ads in major cities. And pirateaba uses the announcement to provide some advertising to Beware of Chicken, which is also getting a physical release (pictured alongside He Who Fights With Monsters, so I can only assume that too is now in major bookstores).
It seems like you've written this whole thing about a month too early for the male dominated, RoyalRoad explosion to hit bookstores now that DCC has laid a path for success.
Publishers just to have hope no one reads the godawful later volumes of BoC
sohois
6d ago
rational fanfiction is without exaggeration one of the most intellectually influential literary movements of the 21st century
Is that entirely counting HPMOR though? Or were you referring to something else? I'm not sure any of the other rational fanfictions have had any kind of impact outside of their tiny niches
Given Epstein can no longer provide any personal accounts, I'm not sure we can really take much from this. Maybe he was really interested in AI and thus was naturally responsive to funding discussions. Maybe utilitarian AI researchers thought a somewhat disgraced financier was a good target. Maybe he received a normal amount of contacts from AI researchers and if we went through the emails of all the big VCs and private investors we'd find a similar number of emails from AI people.
I'm sure we have a fair few people here who have done the start-up funding gamut and could say the same, but for me getting the attention of potential funders is a pure numbers game (it's apparently much easier in the US compared to my experience in the UK, but still). There are only a small number of rich people and VCs, and a very large number of potential funding projects. You'll do anything to get a call back or a bit of interest. Some Epstein guy sends you an email? Get in, and he's rich. GoGoGo. It's only later you might bother to look into him.
Not sure on this. It could be, but it doesn't feel nearly salacious enough. I'd imagine it's much more likely that muckrackers are looking in general for pieces like this on the major AI founders and this was one of the more interesting, and publishable tidbits, as opposed to something targeted.
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