I mean, I'm the exact opposite. Ask ChatGPT to write a simple (but novel) script for AutoHotKey, for example, and it can't do it. Gemini can do it perfectly on the first try.
ChatGPT has been atrocious for me over the past year, as in its actual performance has deteriorated. Gemini has improved with time. As for the comment about lacking wit, I mean, sure I guess, but I use AI to either help me write code to save me time or to give me information - I expect wit out of actual humans. That shit just annoys me with AI, and neither ChatGPT nor Gemini bots are good at not being obnoxious with metaphors and floral speech.
Sounds like you are using ChatGPT to spit out a script in the chat? - if so, you should give 5.2 codex or Claude Code with Opus 4.5 a try... it's night and day.
I don’t think so. My favorite tool is Codex with the 5.2-codex model. I use Github Copilot and Codex at work and Codex and Cursor at home. Codex is better for harder and bigger tasks. I’ll use Copilot or Cursor for small easy things. I think Codex is better than Claude Code as well.
Are you using the same models and thinking levels for each?
I too have found Codex better than Copilot, even for simple tasks. But I don't have the same models available since my work limits the models in copilot to the stupid ones.
I have GH Copilot from work and a personal Claude Code max subscription and have noticed a difference in quality if I feed the same input prompts/requirements/spec/rules.md to Claude Code cli and GH Copilot, both using Opus 4.5, where Claude Code CLI gives better results.
Maybe there's more going on at inference time with Claude Code cli?
It is likely because GH Copilot aggressively (over-)manages context and token spend. Probably to hit their desired margins on their plans. But it actively cripples the tool for more complex work IMO. I've had many times where context was obviously being aggressively compacted and also where it will straight truncate data it reads once it reaches some limit.
I do think it is not as bad as it was 4-6 months ago. Still not as good as CC for agentic workflows.
I find this really frustrating and confusing about all of the coding models. These models are all ostensibly similar in their underpinnings and their basic methods of operation, right?
So, why does it feel all so fragile and like a gacha game?
In this case they probably are prompting it "wrong" or at least less well than codex/copilot/claude code/etc. That's not a criticism of the user, it's an indication of the fact that people have put a lot of work into the special case of using these particular tools and making sure they are prompted well with context etc whereas when you just type something into chat you would need to replicate that effort yourself in your own prompt.
> Might be illegal to break someone else's proprietary software, no matter how abandoned it is.
Oh no!
Anyway
Snark aside, what you do locally on your own PC in your own home is kinda nobody else’s business, especially when you aren’t cracking it to share it with others. Pretty sure all the arguments were already hashed out in the ‘80s when VCR companies tried to block recording television to cassette tapes.
Maybe not for crypto, but they did spend a year or two surreptitiously installing their own VPN service on your Widows machine without any opt-out ability, and then failed to remove it, its Windows service, or multiple scheduled tasks once the brave uninstaller had been run.
The best part was this whole scam sitting as an unresolved issue on GitHub for months after they finally acknowledged it (after first denying it lol).
Closest browser I’ve seen to an actual virus in maybe ever.
And it’s a good lesson for developers that once you lose trust there are many of us who will never make the same mistake again purely out principle.
And here I am on IOS where Brave but not Firefox can use adblockers.
My fucking god I’m not sure enshittification has ever been so widely dispersed. It’s impossible to have any type of unified set up across different OS/devices currently.
Kind of, but not really, the ublock origin app doesn't work on Orion. I tried both Kagi + uBlock versus Brave and their built-in ad-block and Brave had a much better performance.
Brave also installed a VPN an a VPN service without permission on my Windows machine, and then didn’t disable or remove 3 separate scheduled tasks in Windows Scheduler once I’d uninstalled it. The VPN issue was open for like 8+ months on GitHub too - and at first they denied doing it at all. For all I know it still installs it, but I removed this malware-type shit when this all happened so I couldn’t tell you.
You've commented this three (?) times under this HN post and several times on this site now. Sure seems like you have a bone to pick.
The VPN they installed was disabled and they could not activate it without user interaction. And the only reason they did this is so when you click "activate VPN" in the browser, it works immediately.
On top of that, other businesses employ(ed) similar tricks. For years and years and years, Dropbox on macOS did a very specific hack to give itself more permissions to ease syncing. Hell, Firefox injected ads for Mr. Robot via a surreptitiously installed invisible extension.
Still a boneheaded move by Brave, just like adding their own affiliate link to crypto links (if none were added) to generate extra revenue for the company at no extra cost to the user. But that is even further in the past.
At any rate, they also fund or develop a bunch of anti-ad tech and research and make it open source / publish it. The defaults of Brave protect your privacy much better than Firefox's defaults. And so far, their BAT concept is the only one that is a legitimate alternative to an ad-funded internet.
Minimising a browser installer surreptitiously installing an unrelated network service without my consent in the name of convenience and then pulling out a whataboutism that has nothing to do with this. Not even gonna bother reading the rest of your comment.
And yeah, my bone to pick is warning others not to fall for Brave’s slick PR. Companies that act that way can pay the price.
LLMs are dogshit in many ways but when it comes to programming they are faster than people, respond instantaneously to further information, and can iterate until they understand the problem fully.
Bonus is that you don’t get some dipshit being snarky.
You clearly don’t play competitive shooters and thus aren’t qualified to opine on the matter.
Competition vs other human beings is the entire point of that genre, and the intensity when you’re in the top .1% of the playerbase in Overwatch/Valorant/CSGO is really unmatched.
Thanks for the thought but from what I’ve heard from friends I’ll be keeping the final season unwatched just like I did with the last 2 episodes of GoT.
It's been a while - I remember liking the first two seasons. Season three felt a bit silly to me without going into much detail (we need a spoiler text wrapper for HN). Season four has a lot of "zombie-esque" stuff which just doesn't have near the dread horror that the first two seasons did IMHO. Haven't seen any of the final season.
Yes I also let my girlfriend skip the last two episodes. Tyrion Lannister did say "if you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention".
As someone who hasn't watched GoT, only heard of it from others, let me guess: In those two episodes everyone dies a very cruel and painful death, except for one or two main characters?
Everyone already died a painful and cruel death for the first four seasons, that was what made the show so compelling to watch.
From that point on, everyone gets 10 inch thick plot armour, and then the last two episodes skip a whole season or two of character development to try and box the show off quickly.
If literally everybody had died in GoT and the White Walkers had destroyed the world it would have been an infinitely better ending than what they actually wrote into the show. It also would have been on brand for the show and the books themselves.
Television writers pussying out in their finales is its own meme at this point. Makes me respect David Chase and how The Sopranos ended all that much more.
It really isn't. I keep seeing comparisons to the last seasons of Game of Thrones, but while there is a dip in quality this season, it is no where near as bad as what happened to GoT.
I rewatched it in recent weeks and enjoyed all the bits that I enjoyed years ago during the first watch. The stories I found a bit tedious first time (High Sparrow plotline, Arya and faceless men) weren't as miserable; I think I was expecting them to drag on even more. My biggest grievance on the rewatch was just how poorly it's all tied up. I again enjoyed The Long Night through the lens of 'spectacle over military documentary'. The last season just felt like they wrote themselves into a corner and didn't have time and patience to see it through. By that point, actors were ready to move on, etc.
I don't really view this as the show runners fault. GRRM was unable to complete his own work. The show worked best when it drew from the authors own material (GRRM was a screenwriter himself and knew how to write great dialog/scenes).
It's absolutely the producer's fault. They actively choose to release the product they did instead of making more episodes, taking long, bringing other people in to help, etc.
Martin has claimed he flew to HBO to convince them to do 10 seasons of 10 episodes instead of the 8 seasons with just 8 episodes in the final one [1]. It was straight up just D.B. Weiss and David Benioff call how the series ended.
They, like 7kids and 4 adults, I did not bother to count, did attack military base, with actual military trained personnel with military equipment. And they did succeed. This is not bad? They just stroll in upside down and nothing ever attacks them. Where the swarm of bats disappeared? When demogorgons attack to kidnap kids they come from upside down. But in upside down they nowhere to be seen. Military general could disappear from the series and it would have no impact. Maybe they just wanted woman in position of power? Demogorgons attack entire military base personnel and kill dozens of people but then they are killed by hospital patient. When and why she setup that trap exactly? And how she now can speak? How white goo is easy to brake but also solid enough so it does not brake under the pressure of the entire building ? How and why it just appears and solidifies in the exact right moment? And excuse me.... But wormhole? Could not they thing of something else? Oh and Vecna killing a guy. And we did not even see what was in the case. They are under strict quarantine but have personnel smuggler that can just bring them everything they want. It is not bad it is terrible.
They were not even in hurry. If that was important for the viewers it should be even more important to the characters. If this was not important and they do not care then the whole premise of traumatic Vecna memory was useless pile of utter garbage because memory cannot be traumatic and not important. Ever had trauma doing grocerries? Or riding a cab? And then they should not be able to escape. Because he would get them before that.
They just invent stuff that they have no idea how to explain later. Just like Lost.
I’ve never watched Game of Thrones, but I doubt their dialogue is so robotic and frankly just feels incredibly formulaic. It just feels like ST ran out of ideas three years ago and have just been recycling the same scene over and over and over again.
All of the characters are constantly arguing with each other. The story line requires constant suspension of belief based on the endless succession of improbable events and improbable character behaviors. Contradictions with earlier episodes and even details within the same episode. It's really bad. I hope the final episode redeems it but I have my doubts. I want to have an LLM rewrite season 5 and see how much it improves.
Idk, the grey goo for instance. It melts steel and concrete but not people and killed soldiers but not main characters.
There are also stupid leaps of faith like Holly's mom hobbling out of bed and sticking an oxygen tank in a clothes dryer(as if that would even do anything)...
ChatGPT has been atrocious for me over the past year, as in its actual performance has deteriorated. Gemini has improved with time. As for the comment about lacking wit, I mean, sure I guess, but I use AI to either help me write code to save me time or to give me information - I expect wit out of actual humans. That shit just annoys me with AI, and neither ChatGPT nor Gemini bots are good at not being obnoxious with metaphors and floral speech.
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