Google really can’t help themselves but to have some internal re-org kill off a public thing people are actively using. It’s honestly impressive how consistent they are.
If the repo is already forked, what difference does it make if Google supports it or not? The community can just continue development if they so choose
There's a fair amount of enterprise usage. It's a really good product, despite the Claude hype. Anthropic is a PITA to deal with, and it's slow as shit weekday morning Eastern time.
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I use all 3 compared to what do you think Gemini CLI is a good product? (my only use case for it now is triple checking specifications for drift inconsistencies beyond that I find it pretty lacking compared to codex and cc).
I think for the average corporate person in a non-software company, the "out of box" experience is better with Gemini. It's also cheap.
Once you get deeper into it, both Codex and Claude have better integrations with skills, etc. I sort of "discovered" skills via GStack and now use a few things, I find Claude's performance infuriating, but it can do more things. I happily pay $200 for Claude now, mostly for my own personal stuff. I think Gemini is better at external data sourcing and coding complex math.
But note this is my anecdotal take, mostly in the context of hobby projects. I'm a journeyman AI slinger at best.
Even thought there are people using, it doesn’t mean they see a future in it.
Google is the best when it comes to analytics and trends. If they see a product is expected to fail, which in this case it was, they simply kill it and move on instead of wasting resources saving a sinking ship.
Of course, something could’ve been improved, but that’s just how they operate.
There was a moment about a week ago where Claude went down for about an hour. And right after it came back up it was clear a lot of people had given up and were not using it.
It was probably 3x faster than usual. I got more done in the next hour with it than I do in half a day usually. It was definitely a bit of a glimpse into a potential future of “what if these things weren’t resource constrained and could just fly”.
I had terrible results during the holidays -- it wasn't slow but it was clear they were dealing with the load by quantizing in spots because there were entire chunks of days when the results from it were so terrible I gave up and switched to using Gemini or Codex via opencode.
Noticed the exact same thing a few days ago. So much so that I went on twitter and HN to search for “claude speed boost” to see if there was a known new release. Felt like the time I upgraded from a 2400 baud modem to a 14.4 as a kid - everything was just lightning fast (for a brief shining moment).
Seems like a big opportunity for Google to consider keeping Gemini ad-free as a differentiator. They can afford to burn cash on it for a long time to come if they choose to do so.
All enterprise users already pay for it. They’ve included it by force to the base subscription (and about 30% of our company actively uses it, according to in-app stats as an admin).
This is really what's going to kill OpenAI. Gemini bundled in Workspace is pretty good and seems to be making big leaps constantly. Some really smart integration points.
Did the client side JS being infected produce any issues which would have affected end users? As in if a web owner were on an affected version and deployed during the window would the end user of their site have had any negative impact?
No, just the host that was running the package (the exploit was pretty generic and not targeted at PostHog specifically). In fact, so far we think there were 0 production deployments of PostHog because the package was only live for a little bit.
Recently used a lot of HaxeUI for a game and it felt similar to this. A lot of components included out of the box that “just work” with some basic styling. And you can use CSS styling on top to further customize as needed. Works across a lot of different platforms as well.
This is obviously going straight to TikTok. The big issue is it's going to open the flood gates on their own platform.
Anyway, if everyone wants to be a content creator, why not charge them for the privilege of that desire? A content creator will forever need AI-generated something. So now we move from "you get to post your content for free" over to "you get to now pay us through this AI-gateway to post your content".
Tried it. It was okay, felt very futuristic. But ultimately there weren’t really any benefits over just using a multi monitor setup that could justify the cost. I thought it’d be nice to have something I could also use for watching movies, but when I watch movies I almost always watch them with my wife, and much prefer that.
Daily driver no, but after the somewhat recent ultrawide monitor update, it is absolutely viable for travel. It's nice not to be constrained by a 14" monitor while on the road, and it's perfectly usable for a couple hours of work (especially if you take the surround seal off and use one of the head strap mounts that take all the pressure off your face).
I tried it, and it works alright. But it's not very comfortable to keep it on while eating/drinking, and you can't wear the thing in public without looking ridiculous.
Personally I found my existing dual-monitor setup to be more ergonomic.
I made one of the original posts on HN about this years ago after hearing about it from my CPA. Both then and now these changes make zero sense to me as a matter of good policy. I am also still surprised at the number of people in tech who either haven’t heard about this or are willfully ignoring it and likely filing their taxes incorrectly.
Somewhat related topic: anyone used something like the Luxedo to do a projection mapping? It seems like it’s more complicated and expensive but I love the idea of doing something cool to the house for Halloween and Christmas without having to lug out a ton of lights and decorations.
There are media players and graphics generators that will run on a RaspPi also. Finding a bright enough projector and sheltering it for outdoor use might be the main challenge.
Another approach might be a galvo scanned laser with DMX software to control it, though there may be safety/liability issues with that.
I‘m fascinated by these projection setups ever since I learned they’re a thing! But Jesus is the Luxedo stuff pricey?! I’d love to learn about something similar but in a kinda OSS/DIY kind of style…
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