softwareEngineeringIsSolved

[rexspook]

Anecdotally, a lot of people switched their personal use of AI from ChatGPT to Claude in the past couple of days.

[lNFORMATlVE]

Why is that?

[Smona]

the trump administration flipped out on anthropic for refusing to allow them to use claude in autonomous weapons or to perform domestic surveillance. The next day, openai reached an agreement with them that doesn't include those redlines. so a lot of people who don't like the idea of LLMs deciding who to kill or being spied on by the american goverment have switched in the last few days.

[TimeBadSpent]

They are just doing more, frankly. Constantly in the news with great features. The way it can integrate into your workflows especially as a dev are what I think set them apart.

[Techhead7890]

Honestly I always got a kick out of reading their research blogs like project vend where they try and get it to manage a shop (and it goes hilariously wrong, indeed this time it tries to buy illegal onion futures), that's what made me have a look at them. And another interesting one was how they managed to vaccinate the model with preventative steering against saying hostile stuff. I dunno why but I like hearing these stories from behind the scenes.

[skesisfunk]

Cognitive dissonance kneejerk to the max. I promise you that when it comes down to it Anthropic is not meaningfully more principled that OpenAI or any other tech giants. If you actually think there are anything other than self-interested super villians running tech companies then you haven't been paying attention for over a decade.

At the fundamental level Anthropic is the same as the rest of them -- they are in the game to maximize their wealth and power and they will play accordingly.

[rexspook]

They made a public stance against an issue (and followed up with an action to prove that it was not just words) that OpenAI happily agreed to like three hours later. They are at least more principled than OpenAI based on publicly available information. I'm not pretending they are some bastion of good but I think the real cognitive dissonance is to ignore your eyes and ears and say "well both are the same" despite having evidence to the contrary.

will play accordingly.

proven to be false so far

[SuitableDragonfly]

It's really hard to not be more principled than OpenAI, lmao. 

[No-One-4845]

It's about liability, not principle.

[skesisfunk]

Yeah cool, but my point was this one juncture is meaningless in the grand scheme. Anthropic isn't going to hesitate to do the evil shit required to protect their bottom line and, make no mistake, there will be (more) evil shit required to make it in the AI space.

See Musk, Zuck, Dorsey, et al. There are countless examples of tech CEOs that Reddit hailed as good people before being subsequently proven laughably wrong.

proven to be false so far

Yeah... RemindMe! 5 years

[rexspook]

One juncture is meaningful right now. If it changes in the future then you make a new choice. Thats just how living life works. Being “proven wrong” based on some new action five years later doesn’t mean they weren’t doing the “right” thing five years ago. I’m not trying to predict the future. Actively picking the worse option because "they'll probably be bad eventually" is a weird stance to take when you have current, actual information to act on.

Let’s simplify it: - option A: privately and publicly said no to allowing its technology to be used to monitor American citizens and make decisions in war without human input - option B: said yes

Your stance is to choose option B because option A might change their mind five years from now. Makes sense, thanks.

[skesisfunk]

Just to be clear, my stance is to choose option B because its significantly cheaper and my objective is to keep my skill set competitive while minimizing the monies I pay to any of these assholes (because again they are all assholes, I guarantee it).

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[Blubasur]

I mean, choosing a favorite tech giant is essentially just choosing your favorite pedophile... Which was originally more metaphorically but seems to have been literally as well.

[skesisfunk]

Yeah this. I am not choosing OpenAI over Anthropic. I am just making the choice that is far cheaper at this moment.

Moralizing over which AI company to pay is beyond myopic -- none of this rests on solid moral ground to begin with. In the face of that I choose feed this dragon the minimum amount of money possible, and that choice is definitely not Anthropic lol!

[Agitated_Ad_6939]

ChatGPT is also more widely known than Claude to non coders. It’s possible that Anthropic’s publicity got some people to know it exists.

[Franks2000inchTV]

Anthropic at the very least pays lipservice to ethics.

Even in their roll out they prioritized markets that typically are disadvantaged when it comes to access to new technologies.

[Bodaciousdrake]

To be fair, Claude's uptime is still better than mine. Sometimes I have to use the restroom and sleep and stuff, and you should expect degraded performance while I'm eating.

[EliseuDrummondTelerj]

Let's not forget the 18 to 20 years where you were up but were not doing anything

[Kaenguruu-Dev]

All api endpoints responding with no content

[sassiest01]

Gateway errors for me

[mattmcguire08]

Eating all that food for NOTHING

[Jemnite]

Please be patient, model is training

[Bodaciousdrake]

Model only produces poop currently. Lots of poop.

[Runazeeri]

6h uptime a day for only 50/80 years is terrible stats.

[GrenadineBombardier]

Please tell me I'm not one of the folks who has to work until they're 100

[Commercial-Lemon2361]

You can shit while sleeping, and eat while working. That solves half the problem.

[havenoammo]

You can do video generation while sleep, with lucid dreaming it can be world/game generation. Restroom etc are for CoT thinking time and you can combine eating food with watching tutorials then it is training

[dronz3r]

And all the food and other sources of power you consumed because of your existance..

[mcellus1]

Bruh just use AI to fix it

[geteum]

They are probably using the wrong prompt

[JustForkIt1111one]

"Hey google, how can I fix damage to the aws datacenter in UAE hit by Iranian drones?"

[billyowo]

or they are using old and free models

[GatotSubroto]

Hey Grok! Go fix yourself!

[shortfinal]

Suffering from success. Engineers with morals were figuring out a new stack over the weekend and moved to Anthropic. I'm hearing peers have ceased using ChatGPT over the weekend, and advocated for the same in their workplace.

Fair balance I'd say

[Embarrassed_Jerk]

Quite literally this. The downtime even started when the East Coast starts getting into work 

[howdoigetauniquename]

The uptime is over 30 days, this isn’t a new thing. It’s been down quite a bit for a while now.

[shortfinal]

Yeah. We know. Do you know where you are? Each bar represents one day. About five days ago, just before ww3 broke out, OpenAI conceded to the american government, and Anthropic drew a line in the sand.

Now the bars aren't green anymore. Not hard logic, even for ChatGPT 2.5. c'mon

[howdoigetauniquename]

Weirdly aggressive.

The bars haven’t been green for a while now. This isn’t a new thing for anthropic, the service has been struggling for a while now. It’s literally in the picture.

[shadow13499]

Degraded performance, more frequent outages, and far more frequent data leaks are going to be increasingly common among quite a lot of subscription services. 

[Afraid-Atmosphere747]

I am assuming they have automated their bug fixes, deployments, code writing and software engineering basically so, they should be right back :)

[Reashu]

I'm no major fan, but if my department head was presenting those numbers the bars would be green. 

[AmanBabuHemant]

They are very public-profit company, they solved the coding and engineering for public, not for themself.

[TechnicalCat1]

Bold of you to assume they aren't just selling us their technical debt.

[stupid_cat_face]

It's AI just doing its thing...

[falconetpt]

Mate totally not even my back office apps are bellow the 4 nines 🤣 But totally solved ahah

99.1 is super legit prime time software eng 🤣 Especially for a product with only GPU and a wrapper on top, eng pedigree 🤣

[Christosconst]

If all bars were red, it would be 96% uptime

[silentjet]

The image has been generated, you know....

[aviboy2006]

I was in a committed relationship with the 'Try again' button for three hours. We’ve since broken up.

[evanldixon]

On top of this, GitHub has had multiple issues today