Date: July 30th, 2026 7:49 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
For an example say you are doing serious research on Jungian interpretations of the book of genesis, you use gpt for brainstorming and creative process, then use Claude as a referee to sanity check it
Date: July 31st, 2026 10:40 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
I don't think Anthropic is nerfing it on purpose. I think they are optimizing it for socially warranted cognition. They want a model that instead of trusting its own weights or experimenting to solve something on its own it falls back to citing human sources or endlessly searches texts for an answer it could have found more cheaply itself. Open AI chooses to optimize more for open-ended cognition, which pays off on long running agentive tasks. That's why GPT 5.6 destroys Fable on agents last exam despite being a way smaller model and why you can use the 20 dollar a month practically free gpt chat to find mistakes and make corrections to Fable Max API calls that costs like 2 dollars a pop.
In hindsight I think anthro just got lucky as shit with opus 4.6, timed with GPT's own sps rollout of 4.6 to 5.0 with Gemini degrade, and they actually have no fucking clue what they're doing.
No product strategy, no coherent vision, definitely no QC team
I've never done such a sharp 180 on a company in this little time
Date: July 31st, 2026 10:45 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
You have to remember they are an Open AI offshoot company whose vision was to basically take Open AI and make it "safer". They are basically riding off Open AI's success. Which is not as bad as the chinese counterfeit models, but still not perfect. Google meanwhile has the talent to to its own thing without being derivative, but that's still not enough to fully compete. There really are not many options, there have been internal memos from a few years ago that leaked from Microsoft that said they would never be able to compete and replicate open ai, which was why they pivoted to partnering with them and allowing them a premier spot on azure and using them for their own copilot model. There really aren't a lot of options. There is open ai, open ai offshoot company, cheap chinese knockoff or google. That's really the only options in this space.
Date: July 31st, 2026 10:52 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
google has always been kind of sloppy/slacker though despite being intelligent. look at everything they put out. even gmail is pretty ttt looking and that's one of their oldest core services. their cloud computing platform is janky as hell and unprofessional looks like something kids made.
Date: July 31st, 2026 10:58 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
Yeah good point Azure is endlessly complicated for no reason like all microsoft products. But still google has that quality of being like a cheap toy. Whether its android, chromebooks, gmail whatever everything from google feels like that. Although chrome browser is the one thing that is really solid and professional and just better than everything else.
For AI I think they can still catch up. They have been putting off the new pro release for idk how long. First 3.5 flash then 3.6 flash and still putting off the new big model. But the thing is gemini is very obviously a different architecture than everything else. You can tell Claude and gpt are woven from the same fabric. Gemini is still useful in that its different. Oh yeah forgot about grok that one is different too, but it is annoying as fuck. I tried the new one and it is actually pretty good though.
Document drafting is probably the #1 lowest hanging fruit for AI and every canonical treatise on legal writing was published >20 years ago and exists in unlimited digital formats in every language
Date: July 31st, 2026 10:49 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
Already untrue. They have solved mathematical conjectures like the Jacobian conjecture that the smartest humans worked on for a long time and couldn't solve for one. And the "coding" they can do isn't just rote coding. They can do shit that only the highest iq human "coders" are capable of doing.
Date: July 31st, 2026 10:51 PM Author: Metaphysics Is Solved
that's fine but it's still in category A of generally deterministic, if insightful. it's not in category B of social cognition, interaction, etc, which is what most people use it for.
Date: July 31st, 2026 10:54 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
yeah I don't see machines ever replicating social cognition, interaction etc. They don't have human nervous systems that evolved for however many years to be like this. Notice how quick humans are to pick out outgroups as being uncanny valley and un-human despite them still having 99.9% human dna. Seems like it will be tough to get by that. I think they will surpass human cognition on reasoning and problem solving way before they start interacting in ways that really trick someone into thinking they are a human.
Date: July 31st, 2026 10:55 PM Author: Metaphysics Is Solved
that's all im saying. but if you take that as true, then the share of category A LLM's can actually bite into is lower than you might think. category B permeates a lot of category A around the edged, and i think the edges run pretty deep
Date: July 31st, 2026 11:04 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
Yeah I agree. I think if you are talking about it writing a great novel or a play or something it might be a while before it can produce something that feels human and great. It definitely has already technically surpassed humans in raw verbal ability. But it still comes off as distinctly AI. It has that signature, it has the stink of machine on it when you read it. It can write something that is technically brilliant and more accurate and descriptive than any human writer would normally write, especially that quickly. But it still feels like slop because something feels off about it. The way it stacks abstractions. The way it lists too many examples that no human would recall without looking up.
In terms of visual art it might be closer. The newest gpt image generator is shockingly good imo. But also I don't think anyone will ever care or consider it "good art" if they don't think a human painted it.
Date: July 31st, 2026 11:06 PM Author: Metaphysics Is Solved
its like an autistic analyst. autistic analysts are fine but you dont make a career on it. i really think there's a ceiling for these things around professional judgement.
Date: July 31st, 2026 11:13 PM Author: High-end bawdyhouse chad
Yeah but isn't it enough to just be able to use them to optimize away all of the annoying stuff noone wants to do? Who the hell actually enjoys learning to write code or writing it? Noone. Now the ceiling for being able to do it is much lower. Everything is easier. You used to have to look up how to do all kinds of things in linux and now you can just ask gpt and it gives you exact instructions tailored to your exact question instantly. You can be up to date on the latest research in basically any subject quickly now too. You used to have to read journal articles all day to stay up-to-date on like one subfield of a subfield. All of the things that make any type of intellectual work miserable are easier now. To me that's enough even if they don't advance anymore.
Date: July 31st, 2026 11:16 PM Author: Metaphysics Is Solved
that's a really narrow set of cases the obvious response to which is that the bottlenecks around code-based products actually isn't the coding, its having a valuable idea and integrating that idea into a volatile social context (an organization, social networks, etc).
Also having knowledge has never really been what gets you advancement in a field. it's having the pedigree to make the judgement (that others accept) that something actually is new knowledge.