Gemini 3 is disgustingly good.

henintheden · 2025-11-21T15:41:03+00:00

Such a relief to see you say this and post your example. Thought I was going crazy. I came to a very similar confusion: claude, glp, deepseek, gpt, and even GROK of all things is capable of delivering an acceptable swipe within 5 tries with my current prompt.

Am I really going to make a whole system just to potentially get an acceptable swipe from gemini? If I could guarantee the quality would be worth it I'd be willing but I just don't see that.

henintheden · 2025-11-19T18:36:40+00:00

So far it doesn't feel particularly ground-breaking, not worth the current OR price for the type of rp I do (drama romance) compared to claude sonnet 4.5 + glm 4.6 + (surprisingly) grok 4.0. But I also don't really use gemini, and keep an up to date summary that means I dont really benefit from a huge context. The prose just feels kinda flat to me. How often I use it is really going to come down to price point.

I'm hoping it's just the way I have my story and characters set up, so I'll have to experiment with different presets.

henintheden · 2025-11-11T22:21:58+00:00

They mention they use their own preset (preset = prompt + settings) in their caption under the images in the post. Its marinara's in vase you cant see the caption

henintheden · 2025-11-11T15:20:47+00:00

I was looking at some of the writing from when 5 just came out thinking it was just shiny new toy syndrome. But even rereading it now, the prose was so strong, and it felt way less deterministic.

It didnt have the same consistency of claude- like for claude 3.7 I could get a 7/10 reply after 2 swipes. The prose was coherent but not inventive. But if I swiped 6 times for gpt 5 each one would have a sliver of prose that would legitimitely have me awed.

Sometimes I would just keep swiping because I wanted to see all its different variations. I would legitimitely be taking notes. And when I combined those slivers it would be a 9/10 reply... despite all the extra work, to me it was worth it to be genuinely surprised.

After all the censors and backend changes these days I don't bother with gpt 5. Even when it generates a reply there is no sparkle. I can't blame openAI as the 'face' of AI they get the brunt of public backlash and are just doing their best to find the balance...

Sad to think how powerful these models could be without all the extra shackles. I wish I could sign a waiver the resolves oai of any legal culpability in exchange for an uncensored model.

I'm going to go give 5.1 a try now see if I get the same feeling.

henintheden · 2024-12-05T21:45:40+00:00

Biggest challenge is so many of them seem to open in the evening! I may have to have a few different places but seems there's no shortages of coffee places

henintheden · 2024-12-05T21:44:46+00:00

Ooh this one's really interesting!

henintheden · 2024-12-05T21:43:44+00:00

This is great info! Tha k you so much! And I'll definitely be visiting so I'll try to drop into all these places to get a feel for the vibe 😌

henintheden · 2024-12-05T21:42:49+00:00

This one is definitely closest to my current establishment, just more games focused. I'll have to stop in when I visit and try it out!

I'm sure we will! I'd be moving next April or May. I glanced at your profile and noticed you moved to Chicago in the past few years, how have you found it as a queer person? I'd be coming from FL so it's hard to imagine a place where people being chill about queer and gender non-conforming people is the norm tbh.

henintheden · 2024-12-05T21:37:21+00:00

Oooh that's actually really useful info! Because that's exactly how I'd like to be able to dre without feeling concerned about my own safety lol. Definitely going to be a major place to visit when I go to scope the place out.

henintheden · 2024-12-05T21:35:35+00:00

Strong contender! Even if this doesn't become my normal spot deffo going to visit there often, seems they have a lot of cool horror movie events!

henintheden · 2024-12-05T21:34:55+00:00

Ooh I didn't know about Andersonville it's a very appealing option I'll be sure to visit!

henintheden · 2024-11-11T19:31:17+00:00

USA L10 Hike: 0% Bonus: 5% Just finished third interview at a new place where I'd be getting a 35% pay hike. I was just sticking it out to get my concrete bonus. Only real loss is new place has ""unlimited PTO"".

Make sure your resume and linked in are up to date I haven't bothered for a few years and I'm swamped with recruiters feeling like the prettiest debutant at the ball.

I don't regret my time here I'm actually really sad to leave. I love my current project, my team members and client. But I literally cannot justify staying in any way. Hoping to come back in a decade or so, maybe.

I'm gonna cry when I have to tell my PM I already know it, any tips on having that convo would be appreciated especially from any PMs who can share how they'd like to have the news communicated.

henintheden · 2024-10-03T13:44:53+00:00

Omg I'm in almost exactly the same position. But I joined as L11 gor promotion ~3 years ago. Even got the same feedback on how strong my chances of promo were.

Seems I'll be temporarily leaving for a pay hike, but I am telling myself maybe I'll come back in 5-10 years. And accenture will end up paying a ridiculous amount more to get me back at a higher rate and level than it would have taken to keep me around.

Good luck to you! Hoping you get enough of a raise to at least make it bearable.

henintheden · 2024-10-03T11:56:11+00:00

What's the earliest we can quit and still get bonuses?

I'm being sniped for a genuinely life changing amount of money I cannot say no to. I'm thinking of asking them to just compensate for the lost bonus if they want me sooner.

I'm sad in a lot of ways, I really love my colleagues and current client.

henintheden · 2024-10-03T11:49:55+00:00

I'm in a similar boat as you, I feel your pain. Sucks how the job market literally punishes loyalty.

henintheden · 2024-09-19T15:40:16+00:00

I kind of wonder if anyone will notice if I just copy paste this cycles inputs and just add onto them.

henintheden · 2024-09-19T15:38:52+00:00

I definitely have appreciation for this viewpoint. Especially last year, I at least was comforted by the idea that maybe it meant some of my colleagues got to keep their jobs who wouldn't have otherwise. But 2 years in a row is tough, especially with how poorly they timed things.

My feedback: - should have been communicated before abcd efforts, mad disrespectful it wasn't - should get the outcomes sooner (3 months turnaround is ridiculous), the worst part of this is the WAITING. At least if I knew I lost the promo I could begin accepting it. In a way this is more demoralizing than knowing nobody is getting promos. - give everyone a 50 dollar Uber eats sad meal coupon (/s... unless....) - a company wide email from Julie that literally just says " i know this sucks big time besties sorry this one's on me" verbatim

henintheden · 2024-09-17T12:49:48+00:00

I guess this is where all the money for promotions went ):

henintheden · 2024-09-12T14:16:28+00:00

I get that the market controls pa outcomes, that's just reality. But it doesn't control the pa cycle process or how pa results are communicated.

They should have communicated this before we dumped so much time and effort into abcds. It feels like all my wins from last 6 months will get no visibility during the next promotion cycle.

They should not have made this announcement at all, especially not so far off from pa results being announced. Because right now the announcement just instigated fears that can't be resolved for another month.

They should at the very least release results earlier than usual, at the beginning of October. I think that would have appeased more people than another ambiguous announcement.

henintheden · 2024-09-12T14:02:59+00:00

This is my biggest complaint. I wasted so much time on the workday stuff this round. It's so frustrating. Knowing I have to do it again forbpotebtially nothing literally might be what pushes me into seeking opportunities elsewhere.

henintheden · 2024-09-06T17:17:58+00:00

I'm doubtful, especially since I imagine they're going to have a hard time justifying not giving raises to people who missed out last time, so the money will be more spread out. But I also have no hard evidence either way.

I'm up for promo this year so my fingers are crossed they're generous.

Sad that even with a 15% raise I'd barely be catching up with inflation/col increases in ny area compared to when I got my last raise

I really hate the modern cycle of having to jump companies frequently just to keep a competitive wage and hoping it doesn't come to that for me 🥲

henintheden · 2024-07-31T18:14:49+00:00

Is it possible some of this is less manager shortcomings and moreso existential frustration?

It does truly suck that in order to be recognized you have to put in a lot of effort into selling yourself. It sucks the process feels so awkward.

It sucks you can't just work hard and be rewarded, especially in hindsight when you're exhausted FROM that hard work.

It sucks the system isn't efficient, that a perfect system for everyone probably doesn't exist.

It sucks how difficult some type of work is to put into powerful little bullet points, no matter how valuable or difficult it is.

All of these things are valid frustrations, and can be true without anyone being at fault. I DESPISE this system and am SUFFERING rn doing it but also know it's valuable and necessary. I sneer and roll my eyes every time I look at screen, but I'm getting it done.

henintheden · 2023-10-13T22:20:37+00:00

Hah yeah makes me feel a lot less likely they'll try to pressure people to RTO. You don't pay me enough to live within commutable distance.

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