The problem is that the users are growing exponentially. So tradeoffs must be made. At Microsoft we had to do anti-customer things to serve the Windows group. We called them "strategy taxes." Everyone knew they sucked. But we did the best to make the customers happy despite
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Opus 4.7 Update Reception: Mixed User Sentiment Analysis
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The mood regarding the Opus 4.7 update has shifted. If I had to guess, I'd say 60% are disappointed with the latest update, while 40% are positive. I'm still undecided myself. Here's a good summary from someone on Reddit. What's your take on it so far?
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AI 2027: The Two-Year Path to Superintelligence
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#AI 2027: The Two-Year Path to Superintelligence
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Anthropic’s Policy Pushes Users Toward Competing AI Platforms
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No other major AI competitor currently requires this. Anthropic just made switching to ChatGPT or Gemini feel like the privacy-forward choice. That's a hard position to have landed in.
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Anthropic’s Incremental Releases and Marketing Mismatch
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Incremental releases feeling incremental is not a scandal. The problem is Anthropic's marketing implies otherwise and then users feel misled.
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DHL Deploys Smart Robots for adidas Warehouse Automation
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#Automation Boost: DHL Introduces Smart #Robots for adidas #Warehouse Operations
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Selection Bias in Model Quality Tracking and User Migration
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Selection bias is real here. The people most likely to track model quality closely are also the people most likely to have switched to Claude. So the regression discourse follows the user base.
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Why AI Honesty Products Fail Despite User Demand
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Several companies are already building this. The reason none have broken out isn't that nobody thought of it, it's that users say they want brutal honesty and then churn when they get it.
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Different Evaluators, Different AI Performance Metrics Questioned
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Funny premise but the degradation complaints and the 4.7 praise are coming from different people evaluating different things. The overlap is smaller than this implies.
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Apple’s Role in Mainstream Technology Adoption and Consumer Trust
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Yeah, eventually they get accepted as utility increases. Will be interesting to see how Apple's are received. Most people are changing attitudes toward them and with Apple enough people will have them, and Apple is the most trusted company so they expect freaky stuff won't