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What do you use


Personally I use gh copilot in vscode and make new worktrees when I want parallel agents that are both going to write code.

For research, planning, figuring out bugs, etc I usually don’t bother creating the worktree until I’ve decided on the implementation.

I’m sure there’s better workflows and software, but all I’ve got for work is gh copilot and Claude enterprise. I like copilot better than Claude for the most part.


I was under the impression that GitHub Copilot was much more expensive because you're always paying API rates?


Enterprise pays API rates everywhere afaik. Our Claude Enterprise is pay per token too. Maybe some volume deal idk.


it's expensive as hell


Muse 1.3 spark occasionally spits out Chinese character responses to me like internal instructions. “Go fast” or “Get help”…


I’ve had Claude opus do that too.


I had a totally benign chat with OpenAI and it titled it as “amateur porn” in Chinese characters, it was very alarmed when I pointed the conversation name out to it. It almost never misses these days, but when it does the failure modes are very strange.


I remember getting a bunch of „Thanks for watching! Subscribe and smash that like button“ in the middle of chat sessions a few times (like, more than 3 times over the past 3y)


It kind of makes sense when you think about it. If the training data is YouTube transcripts, people often abruptly switch from content to asking for a subscription.

If AI is typeahead on crack, then this tracks.


If you ever look at what's in the Common Crawl the amount of Chinese porn crap is jarring.


It's as if Common Crawl is attempting to be a sample of the web.


Not sure what model(s) they use but this recently happened in a TV interview with an "AI actress".

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/1wljyvf/al...


Got Russian from it once. As a child of the '80s I jumped right on it, but the explanation seemed believable.

Still sleeping with one eye open.


A Hindi word in the middle of a normal reply for me (but once I translated the word it was right in context heh)


This used to happen a lot with GPT 5.4. It would start outputting entire sentences in Korean for no apparent reason.


People that know multiple languages sometimes code switch too funnily enough


Already started?


and you trust the government?


not this one


Does my screen have to be on?


Last time I had this problem, I got it fixed after applying for and accepting a job at Apple.


At what point during the process was the issue raised? Was it received well?


We're all training similarly large base++; near same data, just pricing it differently... with grok removing a few filters and maybe some safeguards? For that matter, many of the benchmarks are flawed and are just easily gamed and whatnot. iykyk.


Very cool and what an amazing way to learn so much beyond what you do in those years at university (at least in the engineering sense). I wish we had software and hardware open to be able to run custom setups whether its NVIDIA on x64 or Ampere/arm64 with MacOS.


What is a good alternative?


Readwise Reader, paid service from a bootstrapped company, kind of ensures it won’t randomly kill the product

Also: They are users of their own product


Considering Musk's power and the shrinking moat of OpenAI you would think he would be create something better with government support - or as some new department.


It certainly doesn't say much about his confidence in X.ai keeping up with OpenAI


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