@simon re: the gemini vs chatgpt thing, I've been able to use 2.5 pro and 2.5 flash for a week now (on the free plan, though I have Google One storage). They both give similar results to the o3 query (and return faster). You do have to click "show thinking" to see what it searched.

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**Simon** · Apr 21, 2025, 14:14

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**Simon Willison** @simon@simonwillison.net · Apr 21, 2025, 14:14

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Simon Willison @simon@simonwillison.net

It's been a couple of years since GPT-4 powered Bing, but with the various Deep Research products and now o3/o4-mini I'm ready to say that AI assisted search-based research actually works now https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 23, 2025, 19:19

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 23, 2025, 19:19

Apr 23, 2025, 19:19

Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@grimalkina would be an instant read for me!

**Simon** · Apr 23, 2025, 16:32

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**Cat Hicks** @grimalkina@mastodon.social · Apr 23, 2025, 16:32

Apr 23, 2025, 16:32

Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

"Taking care of your own problem-solving mind no matter what the AI can and can't do: a user manual" ?!!!???

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**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 22, 2025, 19:54

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 22, 2025, 19:54

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Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@cadey it seems to load faster than even a day ago, was there an update?

**Simon** · Mar 20, 2025, 16:35

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**JAMES HEATHERS** @jamesheathers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · Mar 20, 2025, 16:35

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JAMES HEATHERS @jamesheathers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:rgrtvrwpqyin6z365lx7pr3y&cid=bafkreigmap3s3427a4lopbje2hfktk36mf6lh5luikjtftm3cs6pxwjufe

**Simon** · Apr 19, 2025, 20:16

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**Bryan Cantrill** @bcantrill@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2025, 20:16

Apr 19, 2025, 20:16

Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill@mastodon.social

We got our AMD Turin sled booting! And --in classic @oxidecomputer fashion -- we're going to regale with tales of the adventure: join @ahl and me on Monday at 5p Pacific when we will have the engineering team on hand to talk about bringing up Cosmo!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1362938379364466941

If you want the backstory, check out our earlier tales from the bringup lab:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-from-the-bringup-lab

And learn ,more about Turin:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/unshrouding-turin-or-benvenuto-a-torino

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 19, 2025, 17:22

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 19, 2025, 17:22

Apr 19, 2025, 17:22

Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@grimalkina @ren it's kind of a curse the way you put it... I would not want every brain fart I have to be materialized before I had a chance to reconsider.

**Simon** · Apr 19, 2025, 17:02

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**Cat Hicks** @grimalkina@mastodon.social · Apr 19, 2025, 17:02

Apr 19, 2025, 17:02

Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

@ren my theory is that billionaires mostly have free associative and reactive thoughts about what they feel and then there is a whole apparatus organized around them to translate their amorphously bad feelings into plans that make essentially no sense, but do make sense if the goal is to make the billionaire feel good

**Simon** · Apr 18, 2025, 16:07

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**swannodette** @swannodette@mas.to · Apr 18, 2025, 16:07

Apr 18, 2025, 16:07

swannodette @swannodette@mas.to

Honestly, the Clojure team / community handling Closure Library development ourselves is a fantastic turn of events. Meaningless software churn is such a pervasive disease. Kill it with fire!

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 18, 2025, 06:46

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 18, 2025, 06:46

Apr 18, 2025, 06:46

Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@grimalkina thank you! Your writing helps me see (american) tech culture in a new perspective. I've never worked in a software startup or big tech, so a lot of it seems strange to me on a surface level. One thing that came to mind is the German-speaking world's obsession with the "engineer" titles, to the point where you have "requirements engineers" and "business engineers".
I remember an English colleague's quip, who obviously didn't think it held any prestige: "I'm not an engineer, I don't have a spanner! "

**Simon** · Apr 17, 2025, 00:36

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**Cat Hicks** @grimalkina@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2025, 00:36

Apr 17, 2025, 00:36

Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

That piece of writing I was talking about finishing that I was equally proud of and scared to post because I love it? Here it is.

I am starting a new project, it is A Newsletter, and it is About Tech, but it is a very different tech newsletter.

Welcome to Fight for the Human. Sign up to start setting your compass toward rehumanization.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot-be-technical/

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 17, 2025, 09:36

**Simon** @spoltier@qoto.org · Apr 17, 2025, 09:36

Apr 17, 2025, 09:36

Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

@virtulis @lritter FML is what you say when you can go FTL

**Simon** · Apr 16, 2025, 11:39

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**Leshem Choshen** @LChoshen@sigmoid.social · Apr 16, 2025, 11:39

Apr 16, 2025, 11:39

Leshem Choshen @LChoshen@sigmoid.social

TextArena as a Benchmark:
Scaling and reasoning led to significant progress on frontier benchmarks, saturating many of them. We believe that relative measures of success present a more sustainable future for benchmarking, and thus created TextArena.
In TextArena models can compete against other models and humans in over 70 text-based games. Results are updated in real-time and shown on https://textarena.ai/leaderboard. (You can play against the models here: https://textarena.ai)