Lol, let's see it make a powerpoint presentation that doesn't have a different word for the same concept every other slide.

What's an SDF?

Signed distance function (or signed distance field depending). Simplified: rendering via maths equations instead of triangles.

I actually convert the SDFs to voxels and render triangles, but.. some people have written direct SDF renderers. There's a guy that posted to YouTube not too long ago that wrote a really cool one with physics and everything

At least we know the title wasn't AI-generated?

The weird thing is I've seen LLMs "typo" stuff pretty often. Yesterday I asked Gemini a question about the Python Twisted framework and it answered about Deferreds but misspelled it as "Deferends" in one spot.

Also, "rouge" is one of the oldest spelling mistakes on the internet. ALL BLUES ROUGE LFG WC/RFD

Saunas have hourglasses (usually a multiple of 5 mins)?

Goddamnit it was going to tell me how to scale down ingredients for a pie recipe based on relative diameters of the baking tray.

Pi * r2 (squared) both pans. Divide smaller pan area by larger pan, now you have the % of how much the smaller pan recipe fills up the larger pan, and the missing % you need to fill. Increase ingredients by that % divided by the filled %.

Small pan area: 20 sq cm Larger pan: 48 sq cm

20 / 48 = .42, I'm missing .58 of the pan. .58 / .42 is 1.38. My recipe needs 2.38x the original to fill the larger pie pan.

Having used Claude a lot for the past four months, I get exhausted from its style. Every sentence has been buffed and polished and enhanced and it never just plainly says a thing. It's as if you have to eat every meal with every possible flavor enhancer in existence. At one point I will totally lose it if it mentions "smoke test" one more time.

It is also totally not what I want for docstrings in code or Powerpoint drafts, where consistency in language is critical.

Like I said in another thread, everything Claude (Code) writes sounds like it’s congratulating itself of how smart it is. While not actually being that smart.

It writes like me when I was 14 and thought I was very smart.

I believe AI technical prose peaked with Opus 4.6. I still use it (mostly for that purpose) and I think it's legitimately great. I'm hoping they are able to reverse the trends that benchmaxxing and RLAIF have wrought on Claude's non-code output with the future models.

Now that the public anger is growing i really hope Anthropics next models seriously address this. Or for that matter, i hope everyone (OpenAI/etc) starts focusing on this too.

Intelligence is important but it feels as if the LLM is only capable of conveying information while drenching it in vomit.

I use Claude daily and I have never heard it say 'Smoke Test' once.

Have a bit of food dropped into the MSG container. Now eat the whole container

Claude Code's creative use of language in an engineering context is often quite infuriating. I want language to be as simple as possible, it should be accessible and require as little context as possible. Below are a few examples that Code wrote that I encountered in my own work (related to signal processing):

"excursion" (means: a spike/jump — a value that rises or deviates from baseline, just say spike or outlier)

"legitimate majority-normal baseline" (means: a real majority of normal pixels)

"matched pool of pure-noise ('normal') pixels" (means: the same number of normal pixels, don't bring pools into this)

"ablation" (means: comparing before vs. after — turning a thing on/off to see what changes)

I actually used Claude Code to try and find examples like these but not entirely unexpectedly it had a very hard time detecting these, even though I encounter them like every other sentence. I can imagine this style is great when writing prose, not so much when writing documentation.

Similarly, I tried using Claude Design to make some slides, and the individual slides were fine, but just about every other slide it used different words to denote the same concept, which I would say is the fastest way to lose your audience.

I've always used em-dash. I got familiar with the hotkeys when I started using Mac OS X in 2002. Option+Hyphen for en-dash, Option+Shift+Hyphen for em-dash. It's unfortunate that it's an LLM tell. I'm glad the LLMs haven't subsumed proper ellipses yet…

For you personally no, but there's plenty of scandals of politicians being influenced by the Chinese, case in point in my own country: https://www.ft.com/content/601df41f-8393-46ad-9f74-fe64f8ea1...

Don't be naive or I might even think you're working for the Chinese :-)

It is. They are also enshittifying Komoot and EventBrite. Also by default they acquire a company and fire all staff within the week. Fuck Bending Spoons.

Pre-bending spoons Komoot was a beautiful app and community. You could operate it one handed with your brightness turned all the way down and easily get the info you needed. Now when I pull it up mid ride to route home I have to click through multiple upgrade to premium pop ups with tiny exit crosses. All good things etc etc

And here's the thing, what should have the original company done if they were not having profits/growing (but shrinking)?

You don't sell a company if you don't believe its future can be better with you in command (most of the time)

Founders decide they want to do other things with their lives all the time, and in the case of komoot reportedly exited at a €300m valuation for a company that had raised very little VC money, which is going to tempt most people no matter how much they hate popups...

is firing staff after acquisition inherently bad if it's the same staff/management that led to the app being devalued and losing users in the first place though

I wish they'd buy Spotify...

Keep one SRE to keep the servers running, one guy to do security updates to the app, and the team that acquires rights to music.

This will never happen.

Labels literally negotiated their own royalty rates down in exchange for shares in Spotify. It’s the perfect way to push artists out of receiving earnings.

I think record labels would be first in line to buy Spotify if it was ever for sale.

You need at least 3 devs to keep adding popups to the app with offers, upgrades, and other "related content".

Why do you think that a platform with so many customers as to be industry defining, with dozens of interface options, with a massive feature set, with a global footprint and basically flawless uptime requirements, could be kept running by two guys?

It was a tongue in cheek complaint about their terrible apps and the user hostile way they force unwanted "features" on people.

I'd pay 2x my subscription price to be able to use a third party client again.