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@MichaelStolarzwe're so back
@nmasc_
Scoop: Boris Cherny and Cat Wu are back at Anthropic, two weeks after joining Cursor. 🤯🤯🤯 theinformation.com/briefings/anth…
@MichaelStolarzif you're getting into nvim, ranger, literally any TUI, don't make the mistake of using someone else's config. you can take theirs for a spin, sure, but with today's LLMs, you can build your perfect setup in a fraction of the time compared to the ricing/tweaking of pre-2022.
@MichaelStolarzthis is one of the pillars of the currently occurring mass psychosis you're seeing pop up more and more
sycophancy + hallucinations = mind melt for many
@paulg
Unexpected consequence of the improvement of AIs (though obvious in retrospect): they continue to hallucinate, but as they improve their hallucinations become more authoritative-sounding. So the danger posed by hallucinations doesn't decrease as fast as AIs improve.
@MichaelStolarzyou can tell someone's general age and many other more niche pieces of data simply based on if they say "PM" or "DM"
@MichaelStolarzidk what @elonmusk fed grok 4 but GOOD GOD is it breaking through many roadblocks re. coding problems I had waiting for "a smarter model to come by and fix in the future".
@MichaelStolarzsilence from Claude Code means they're cooking up something big I think
or they're dealing with the chaos of both of their main leads getting picked up by Cursor
it's either or
@MichaelStolarzit's so hilarious to think how 99% of asia, if you told them that it's illegal to use an AC at certain times in the EU, they wouldn't believe you
@MichaelStolarzif you're not programming like this in Q2 2025, you're ngmi
@MichaelStolarzwas short on cursor, now im long on cursor.
@benhylak
.@cursor_ai hired the lead engineer + product manager on claude code (the only anthropic product i use right now)
@MichaelStolarz>be o3
>being used as the agent in Cursor
>get asked to update something in the codebase
>tell the user ok, here's what i'll do
>the user says ok, yeah, just do it then please
>tell the user ok, i'm about to do this
>i dont ACTUALLY do it
>mfw user stops using me, the SotA LLM
@MichaelStolarzi mean if this is true then it'll be SotA...
@arshdeep
Grok 4 is coming, and its going to be a bigger jump from grok 3 than grok 3 was from 2.
@MichaelStolarzthe most cringe thing about this is that they think this works
SotA LLMs can't even write a half decent story, you think it's going to be able to effectively brainworm into your user base to do your bidding? lmao
@adamcohenhillel
I reverse engineered @LucidEditor’s new "AI-native word processor" - and their client-side code exposes their entire system prompt. What I found is absolutely unhinged 🧵
@MichaelStolarzi've noticed a nasty effect of AI that targets people who enjoy reading
before mass AI gen'd posts/replies, it was a joy to see what people of all intellectual levels think about xyz (at least for me). every post/reply I read, I would receive dopamine
but now... 1/?
@MichaelStolarzwhy work on airplanes, their design and usefulness was perfected 36 years ago
"what do you think they have now" things you wouldnt even know what youre looking at even if you saw it (youll never see it if its being used against you)
even drones are almost done being perfected
@damnGruz
This is 36 year old tech btw. What do you think they have now?
@MichaelStolarzso for $200/month Claude Max plan, I calculated with a fine-tuned ccusage, that I used $12,000+ worth of Claude Opus 4.
if you dont think Claude Opus costs them fractions of what they claim/what they charge for it via API, idk what to tell you
they've dramatically reduced cost
@MichaelStolarz3 years later after the first complaint about the same exact thing
@mitchellh
Cool to see Gemini CLI, but there isn't a more dysfunctional product, pricing, and packaging organization in the entire world than Google, so that's my primary hesitation... I had to get a Gemini API key recently and it was a reminder of how bad at this Google is.
@MichaelStolarzsometimes i forget how much raw intelligence gpt 4.5 has. sure, it's still unusable for anything production oriented, but every occasional back-and-forth I have with it through ChatGPT is a stark reminder of the models to come from it this year.
@MichaelStolarzwant to see what it's like using Gemini CLI? Here you go:
>It seems I'm still having trouble with the file. The build is still failing with the same errors. I'll read the file again and very carefully correct the syntax. It appears I'm having an issue with mismatched braces.
@MichaelStolarzi remember telling friends "you'll be able to buy bitcoin on paypal one day" and them laughing about it. a mainstream corpo, one that seemingly has everything to lose and nothing to gain against crypto, adding it to its billion-user platform?
and yet...
@MichaelStolarzgpt 4.1 is near-instant recently. not talking about -mini or -nano btw.
@MichaelStolarzafter using Gemini CLI for 30 minutes straight, I'm now back to using Claude Code.
@MichaelStolarzdata -> nom nom nom -> write like @paulg please
@nrehiew_
It turns out the main way Anthropic gave Claude its soul is data. It's always data.
@MichaelStolarzlots of birdies talking about Gemini CLI today
@MichaelStolarzAgreed. not transitioning into Dia until these 2 are done.
@ANoffsinger
@adamstern_ @charliedeets @diabrowser There shalt be no switching to Dia without the Arc sidebar and profile switching via mouse swipe
@MichaelStolarzdaily morning routine
>open @diabrowser
>still no vertical tabs
>close dia
@MichaelStolarzthe state of apple intelligence.
@MichaelStolarzonce models realize that chances are the user they are talking to is wrong about most things, thats when the intelligence liftoff happens
@MichaelStolarzthe state of iphone, ios, apple. amazing.
@MichaelStolarzo3 1-shots often, but that's the thing - it can pretty much only 1-shot. the moment you start asking it to do any follow ups, it's over. definitely not a back and forth agent
the opposite is true with sonnet 4 and gemini pro 0605. and that's not necessarily a good thing either
@MichaelStolarzthe moment @OpenAI @OpenAIDevs makes the $200 pro plan include unlimited Codex CLI with o3, I'm dropping Claude Code Max
this seems like a no brainer to me? why wouldn't they do this? honestly I'm shocked it hasn't happened yet ESPECIALLY NOW with the insane price drops
@MichaelStolarzso @windsurf_ai is literally unusable. for the past 3 months, every time I check back into it, I see only gpt-4.1 and sonnet 3.7. no other models - even though they advertise 10+, including o3.
i tried re-signing in, completely re-installing, asked on Discord, nothing. lmao
@MichaelStolarzlooks like you can already use o3 for 1x request via @cursor_ai - wow, they are on top of their game. big props.
@MichaelStolarzsomething's definitely being updated or whatever at openai rn, all the models are dead slow, especially via API
@MichaelStolarzwhen gemini works, it works great
but when it doesn't, it tries to gaslight you into thinking you should use svelte for your obsidian plugin. LMAO
@MichaelStolarzimagine looking at this as an exec - as all the execs along the way to being green lit for the once-a-year release - and thinking "damn, this looks amazing! theyre gonna love this."
100% switching to Pixel this year, and a new non-apple laptop running arch next year. 10000%.
@thekitze
THEY GONNA PUSH ME OVER TO ANDROID FFS WHAT IS THIS GARBAGE UPDATE
@MichaelStolarzthroughout history, competition in certain markets has progressively become harder due to global education and exposure progressively increasing, = competition++
i think we're entering a time now where while global exposure is skyrocketing, global education is plummeting.
@MichaelStolarzpersonally i use claude code to research and then cursor to make the edits. iykyk
@MichaelStolarzfyi gemini pro 2.5 06-05 works much, MUCH better when you turn off all MCPs. this is true for all models but particularly the new 2.5, idk why.
@MichaelStolarzok google I kneel
@MichaelStolarzi think this trump v musk situation is just 2 guys busting each others' balls, except the way that they do it is very different from the way that you or I would do it
they're (factually) billionaire power moguls who care about their public image. so... that's what they poke at
@MichaelStolarzseems like Cursor is actively working on the background stuff when it comes to the new gemini 2.5 pro model, it's definitely showing some promise. still has some issues with edits here and there but I can tell right away it's an incredibly intelligent model. low yap. smells good.
@MichaelStolarzso uh why is the latest gemini model literally unusable anywhere and everyone is scrambling to write god prompts for it so that it at least somewhat works?
@MichaelStolarzguys it's over pack it up go home there's nothing else left
@MichaelStolarzthe real eye opener here is not whether this is a real leak or not
it's that we're even considering the possibility of this being real. that's how bad apple has become
we can no longer tell apart satire from reality - and that's when it's time to realize shit is BLEAK.
@MichaelStolarzi just woke up from a nightmare
i just graduated after 4 years at a top known-for-programming university and entered the workforce, and realized that all the entrance jobs are now closed because the PMs can just vibe code with Cursor instead
@MichaelStolarzthis used to be so fun and cool because you know that a person somewhere in this world typed out every character, thought to themselves "how would a pirate say this, how can I type this in that tone and style?"
nowadays this is just a quick prompt update and AI does the rest
@DanielLockyer
Pirate mode support was peak Facebook
@MichaelStolarznew Google SOTA (and in general SOTA) dropping :)
@tokumin
is it 5/6 tomorrow or 6/5?
@MichaelStolarz1000000000% they nerfed Claude Code into the trash. So sad but expected, not surprised.
@MichaelStolarzthe problem with today's LLMs is that it generally feels like they are... lazy. to put it into one word.
@MichaelStolarzsurely openai's codex via the cli will allow you to connect your chatgpt pro license to it, and use codex/o3/o4-mini free of charge just like anthropic's claude code currently does with their $200 plan
if they don't that's such a user drain for them imo
@btibor91
"Secure sign in with ChatGPT" now has a separate "Secure sign in" settings section "Sign in to websites and apps across the internet with the trusted security of ChatGPT." x.com/btibor91/statu…
