Thanks for sharing some experiences from on the ground. It’s certainly anecdotal but even then already a lot more nuanced than the general 2-bullet-point rage that drives public perception.

Hey its 2026! just ask AI who should win based on popular vibe, and be done with.

We call it vibe voting

Read between the lines

Meta being Meta. No surprise there.

News are posted elsewhere.

Buying a limited license is not owning… I mean, yes you own the license, but can’t even sell it. Congratulations.

Why stock up? Buy shorts!

Drop chats, use a harness. Include somewhere the procedure instructions to always look up documentation before crafting the command. Add instructions somewhere what dependencies you tolerate. Then it’s really good.

Once your tasks get larger, you need additional checks.

Character.AI was a LLM wrapper that was outdated in 2025 already. It didn’t do much in their own and certainly not produce technology that promises to replace half the worlds jobs.

Whether you like them or not, this is not a precedence for the AI companies that actually build AI.

That’s what the data centers are for. Makes sense. A lot of people times a lot of companies equals insane compute power.

But then they’ll notice it costs a shitton of money, and downgrade the LLM to Luna, and then not actually learn anything that Amazon, Meta and Google don’t already know anyway.

And it still costs a shitkilo or money.