Have you used it as a consumer would? Aka in google search results or as a replacement for ChatGPT? Because in my hands it is better than ChatGPT.

Gemini is amazing. I switched to it and haven't looked back at ChatGPT. Very fast, very accurate, and pulls on the whole set of knowledge Google has from search.

It is so crazy that he is not turning around and putting the World Peace Prize winner in place. Everyone can get behind that and it is probably the fastest way to getting oil companies in there anyway.

As a worker in one of the companies above, I can tell you that we aren’t willing to do just “whatever” to win contracts. We have real responsible AI reviews etc. We would not just hand over data to the US government. It doesn’t seem that way at Palantir.

But the issue is, and I am not someone saying we should or can throw everything out, that if the US gov demands it, you have to hand over the data right? If your HQ is in the US? Palantir, for me, is worse because of what they are and their communications as you say, but all of these, when compelled by the courts, have to hand over right?

best not to do business with any foreign country then. neo-isolationism becomes global and all it took was a second Trump term.

"all it took was a total loss of international confidence"

Not sure why you are getting downvoted, but this IS the key worry: That people lose contact with the code and really don’t understand what is going on, increasing “errors” in production (for some definition of error), that result in much more production firefighting that, then, reduce the amount of time to write code.

Losing contact with the code is definitely on my mind too. Just like how writing can be a method of thinking, so can programming. I fear that only by suffering through the implementation will you realise the flaws of your solution. If this is done by an LLM you are robbed the opportunity and produce a worse solution.

Still, I use LLM assisted coding fairly frequently, but this is a nagging feeling I have.

> Not sure why you are getting downvoted

A: The comment is bad for business.

I mean, that’s possible, but the more interesting datapoint would be “and then how much did you have to delete and/or redo because it was slop”

And then that they aren't going to hold anyone accountable

Very soon, because clearly OpenAI is in very serious trouble. They are scaled and have no business model and a competitor that is much better than them at almost everything (ads, hardware, cloud, consumer, scaling).

There has been decades of propaganda about how unions destroy jobs in the United States and most software engineers have grown up in those decades.

I'm not trying to argue that Unions are exact right answer (perhaps something like worker's councils would be better) but the underlying issue is that collective action in the United States has been effectively demonized for a very long time (going back to blaming unions for our uncompetitive cars vs. Japan).

A neutral observation: The pro-union camp really needs some better messaging if they want any hope of overcoming these objections.

Nearly every pro-union discussion I see online or even politician speaking to a crowd feels like they're in full-on preaching to the choir mode, where they don't even consider how to address anyone skeptical of unionization. It's always presented as the obvious choice. Any skepticism or critical questions are dismissed as the result of consuming propaganda (like the comment above).

If the hardcore pro-union people want to get anywhere, they need to stop treating anyone with critical questions or skepticism as being misinformed or the victim of propaganda.

Speakers like Pete Buttigieg are a good model for addressing mixed audiences without alienating the other side right off the bat. Not everyone is going to agree with him, but he does a much better job of speaking to a mixed audience as a group of people with differing opinions than most.

It's almost like all of the forms of communication and media people pay attention to is owned by billionaires with a vested interest in promoting anti-union views.

As a group we're probably the most profoundly ignorant people on the planet when it comes to labor relations. We can't even reason about this because we (again, as a group) have practically no experience and even less interest in the subject.

The union issue vs. Japan is a perfect example because you only need to sit in the cars both countries were making at the time to understand why we were uncompetitive.

You also have decades of corruption within the unions. That'll take effort as well to overcome.

There has also been decades of corruption in management (see donations to ballrooms) and yet nobody is saying it will take decades to overcome management.

It will though. Tim Apple has been in charge how long? Bezos? Musk?

The problems with management aren't the result of any one person - it is the ownership class, their lack of any feeling of societal obligation, the lack of consequences for their actions, and their ownership of media and messaging.