Sometimes I just quit once I’m at the final boss. I don’t want to struggle for a long time just to finish the boss. Shadow of Mordor is one of them. I got to the end and then just… I’m finished. I don’t have to play anymore.
If the purpose of finding content online is the purpose of a search engine, then it does not do a good enough job.
I like the initiative, but this is ridiculously bad. I searched for one of the biggest tech youtube channels:
I am one of the people previously complaining about it. I decided to rethink it and changed my mind. It is not a big enough deal to avoid the service. I tried it for a couple of months, and was satisfied with the results.
I really liked filtering results and boosting them.
In the end I deciding it was not good enough to justify the price, so I ended up with Qwant as my daily driver going forward.
They have pretty much lost already. The US will probably try to fight in some way, but they have a very little moat. Even if they actually “stole”, it’s not as if that Anthropic had the moral high ground here.
Some chinese models like GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.7 Mimo V2.5, Deepseek V4 Pro and Minimax 3 cost close to nothing and have wild usage limits if you subscribe.
You can also run these Chinese models on European infrastructure through Cortecs.ai or similar. And you have actually have privacy! Privacy + Cheap vs Expensive and slightly better.
Opus 4.6 is almost 5€ in and 24€ out. Sonnet 4.6 is 3€ in and 15€ out. Minimax 3 is 0,3€ in and 1,7€ out.
All frontier models are so good that the differenciator going forward is going to be price. The models keep improving, but there is a clear trend of diminishing returns.
I tried showing my friends how Gemini is pretty balanced and not as sycophantic as the rest. After 5 queries they seemed quite surprised of how balanced and nok sycophantic it was.
At the sixth request is said: “based on your instructions, I should not simply agree with you.”
Turns out I had a pretty substancial set of instructions to make it useful and had forgotten about it 😂 Explains why I have preferred Gemini for a long time.
Can confirm, am running a lot of services on a VPS that make my life more convenient. I prompt from my phone and get useful stuff out. I am a software engineer, so I can course correct ir when necessary. I only use opencode for this, not Hermes or Openclaw