China also picked up (from A123) and ran with LFP batteries which are inherently safer.

I think the gist of it still applies to even Claude Code w/Opus 4.6.

It's basically outsourcing to mediocre programmers - albeit very fast ones with near-infinite patience and little to no ego.

It doesn't map well to a mediocre human programmer, I think. It operates in a much more jagged world between superhuman, and inhuman stupidity.

A data center of geniuses on a medium dose of LSD.

In my experience, 4.6, together with the Claude Code improvements was a non-linear event. A threshold was crossed that forced me to review my complete model of genAI.

If your ideas/studies/experiences with genAI for software development and engineering were from before januari, basically /clear and re-init.

Many say but I don't agree. It is clearly better now but I had basically the same view on code gen-AI a year ago as I have now. It was obvious even then that LLMs were a big deal. They were really cool then and are amazing now. But some issues are undeniably still there. Maybe they are not a question of some simple quality measure, meaning they might not be solved by simply crunching more tokens with larger context.

I actually finally got started with CC after 4.6. ;)

The output is certainly prodigious (I can do things for side projects that I'd be very unlikely to finish on my own), but it's not a coding prodigy so it hasn't dislodged me from the idea that it's outsourcing.

Overall, yes, quite remarkable.

The fab was already taken apart and sold by then.

Yeah, once the fab is gone it's too late.

CD's have repatterened uncompressed data using scrambling codes to keep the waveform stable (i.e. ~50% on/off)

And a Laserdisc with digital sound literally has that CD audio EFM waveform in the lower frequencies.

Agreed - if you're only writing things with Claude Code that would exist anyway (largely day job things) you're missing out.

Having an AI-slop version of X for your own gratification is usually better than having no version at all.

Yeah this feels at least partially Claude-written to me too.

You also need "make no mistakes"

Run both systems side by side for 9 months. Banks have patience.

This is in the Qualcomm SOC chip, so it's not something that has to be designed into the phone per se.

It's meant to be Just Good Enough to keep C-Suites from picking Zoom and Slack.

Yeah, but like is no one proud on that team to actually deliver something useful?

Microsoft in a nutshell.

Yup... the first Ryzen/EPYC chips were literally a saving throw.

AMD's driver/software woes compared to nVidia make more sense when you realize they barely made it here at all.