I'm still using Sync, going on three years since they banned third party apps, and third party apps are still the best way to experience the site.
I don't see anything asking for a credit card.
In my experience this "gaming" behavior is easily caught by just asking another agent (could just be another session of Claude Code) to review the code changes.
For idle sessions I would MUCH rather pay the cost in tokens than reduced quality. Frankly, it's shocking to me that you would make that trade-off for users without their knowledge or consent.
That's true, but the "AI bubble bursts" scenario is usually tied to Western investors getting essentially margin-called. If that happens, the CCP won't suddenly stop their investment; Chinese models will most likely…
> I have no clue if this claim holds, but alas, just pretending they did not address the obvious criticism, while they did, is at the very least pretty lazy. But they didn't address the criticism. "cutting ~75% of…
> Aren't they currently propped up by investor money? Are Chinese model shops propped up by investor money? Is Google? Open weights models are only 6 months behind SOTA. If new model development suddenly stopped, and…
These OSS model makers need to stop benchmarking against old models. Showing how it performs against Opus 4.5, GLM-5 when we have Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.1 just tells me that it's not comparable to SOTA.
I think there's a lot of methodological expertise that goes into collecting good eval data. For example, in many cases you need human labelers with the right expertise, well designed tasks, well defined constructs, and…
Well you're free to disagree but my experience has been counter to your position. I write both code and research / technical documentation. The quality of what the LLM produces is limited by the quality of ideas I give…
You're complaining about vibe coding while also complaining about how you "feel" about the code. Do you see the irony in that?
I haven't seen the scrolling glitch in months, where previously it was happening multiple times a day. Also haven't seen anyone complain about it in quite some time. Pretty sure they have resolved that.
I just checked competitors' codebases: - Opencode (anomalyco/opencode) is about 670k LOC - Codex (openai/codex) is about 720k LOC - Gemini (google-gemini/gemini-cli) is about 570k LOC Claude Code's 500k LOC doesn't seem…
AI witch-hunters are even more annoying.
> I think the only reason it’s seen as good anywhere is there are a lot of tasteless and talentless people who can pretend they created whatever was curled out. This goes for code as well. This is an oversimplification.…
"by design, the recommendations will be average" This couldn't be more wrong. The simplest refutation is just to point out that there are temperature and top-k settings, which by design, generate tokens (and by…
"they don't output anything unless prompted" Unprompted they're not unlike a human sleeping or in a coma. Those states don't preclude consciousness in other states.
Vegan for 15 years. I cook 95% of my own meals, including black bean burgers, tofu, etc... Sometimes I want something that tastes like meat and I reach for a Beyond or Impossible burger. I don't need it. But I can't…
I can recall reading human-authored text like this for more than a decade.
But literally any decent agent can recommend existing services and help you set them up. And even help you help them set the services up for you. I do this with Claude all the time.
IMO we should all be asking for a raise if our company is making more money. Proportionally, even.
> We don't sit around and write specs and then hope working code plops out. So what do you do then? Sit around hand-holding an AI agent while it implements code line-by-line? I'm being facetious, but my point is that if…
I agree some skepticism is warranted. However I think we need to avoid essentialist thinking about what effects AI usage will have on a person. > that's definitely not the normal usage The way I look at it, AI use --…
What primary sources are you referring to? Come with receipts next time instead of just vitriol.
It doesn't have to reduce understanding. It completely depends on how you use it. See, for example, this study https://arxiv.org/html/2601.20245v2
I'm still using Sync, going on three years since they banned third party apps, and third party apps are still the best way to experience the site.
I don't see anything asking for a credit card.
In my experience this "gaming" behavior is easily caught by just asking another agent (could just be another session of Claude Code) to review the code changes.
For idle sessions I would MUCH rather pay the cost in tokens than reduced quality. Frankly, it's shocking to me that you would make that trade-off for users without their knowledge or consent.
That's true, but the "AI bubble bursts" scenario is usually tied to Western investors getting essentially margin-called. If that happens, the CCP won't suddenly stop their investment; Chinese models will most likely…
> I have no clue if this claim holds, but alas, just pretending they did not address the obvious criticism, while they did, is at the very least pretty lazy. But they didn't address the criticism. "cutting ~75% of…
> Aren't they currently propped up by investor money? Are Chinese model shops propped up by investor money? Is Google? Open weights models are only 6 months behind SOTA. If new model development suddenly stopped, and…
These OSS model makers need to stop benchmarking against old models. Showing how it performs against Opus 4.5, GLM-5 when we have Opus 4.6 and GLM-5.1 just tells me that it's not comparable to SOTA.
I think there's a lot of methodological expertise that goes into collecting good eval data. For example, in many cases you need human labelers with the right expertise, well designed tasks, well defined constructs, and…
Well you're free to disagree but my experience has been counter to your position. I write both code and research / technical documentation. The quality of what the LLM produces is limited by the quality of ideas I give…
You're complaining about vibe coding while also complaining about how you "feel" about the code. Do you see the irony in that?
I haven't seen the scrolling glitch in months, where previously it was happening multiple times a day. Also haven't seen anyone complain about it in quite some time. Pretty sure they have resolved that.
I just checked competitors' codebases: - Opencode (anomalyco/opencode) is about 670k LOC - Codex (openai/codex) is about 720k LOC - Gemini (google-gemini/gemini-cli) is about 570k LOC Claude Code's 500k LOC doesn't seem…
AI witch-hunters are even more annoying.
> I think the only reason it’s seen as good anywhere is there are a lot of tasteless and talentless people who can pretend they created whatever was curled out. This goes for code as well. This is an oversimplification.…
"by design, the recommendations will be average" This couldn't be more wrong. The simplest refutation is just to point out that there are temperature and top-k settings, which by design, generate tokens (and by…
"they don't output anything unless prompted" Unprompted they're not unlike a human sleeping or in a coma. Those states don't preclude consciousness in other states.
Vegan for 15 years. I cook 95% of my own meals, including black bean burgers, tofu, etc... Sometimes I want something that tastes like meat and I reach for a Beyond or Impossible burger. I don't need it. But I can't…
I can recall reading human-authored text like this for more than a decade.
But literally any decent agent can recommend existing services and help you set them up. And even help you help them set the services up for you. I do this with Claude all the time.
IMO we should all be asking for a raise if our company is making more money. Proportionally, even.
> We don't sit around and write specs and then hope working code plops out. So what do you do then? Sit around hand-holding an AI agent while it implements code line-by-line? I'm being facetious, but my point is that if…
I agree some skepticism is warranted. However I think we need to avoid essentialist thinking about what effects AI usage will have on a person. > that's definitely not the normal usage The way I look at it, AI use --…
What primary sources are you referring to? Come with receipts next time instead of just vitriol.
It doesn't have to reduce understanding. It completely depends on how you use it. See, for example, this study https://arxiv.org/html/2601.20245v2