There was just another one recently actually. It was the final straw that convinced me to stop making my Jellyfin server publicly accessible (for my family abroad) and move to a VPN based solution instead (WireGuard or Tailscale I haven’t set it up yet).

Or switch to using the way cheaper open weight models from various providers who don’t have to subsidize training costs so can just race to the bottom on inference pricing…

The quality isn’t really SOTA yet but at some point I assume they’ll be good enough (maybe already are?).

It depends on your account and seems to be random.

On my personal Max 5x account it’s not default and if I force it, it says I’ll pay API rates past 200k. On my other account that I use for work (not an enterprise account just another regular Max 5x account) the 1M model has been the default since that rollout. I’ve tried updating and reinstalling etc, and I can’t ever get the 1M default model on my personal account.

Based on other comments and discussion online as well as Claude code repo issues, it seems I’m not the only one not getting the 1M model for whatever reason and the issue continues to be unresolved.

yes

Mostly because I don’t believe anything of value would actually be lost (note you provided no examples and I’m not sure any exist), that also sounds incredible. So again, how do we make this no-ads paradise happen?

N=1 anecdote, but I've actually found I'm more likely to use different languages now that I'm using LLMs because I don't have to think about the different syntax as much.

For example I've been on the lookout for a better language than bash to use for shell scripting, but didn't like the options I was familiar with for various reasons (go, python, js, swift, etc). I did some research and Nim seemed to fit my needs perfectly. I was able to quickly convert some scripts I had to Nim using an LLM, where in the past I wouldn't have bothered to get used to a whole new language just for a few scripts.

Or right now I'm working on a personal full stack project and chose Go for the backend services, TypeScript/React for the frontend, and also have one service in Python because the library I need is easier to use there than in Go. Normally it would be a frustrating to context switch languages, but with LLMs I'm thinking more about the architecture and logic than specific syntax so it's been pretty frictionless.

I've generally always been one to want to use the best language/stack/platform for the job, so I'm probably biased, but I think LLMs actually make it easier to use languages you're less familiar with as long as you understand fundamental programming concepts. I'm hoping they end up promoting the usage or uptake of some of the less popular languages like Nim due to the lower learning curve needed to get useful output from them.

iOS Safari with AdGuard. I don’t see any of the ads you mentioned.

Sounds a lot like Google as well

But Google actually knows how to do research and how to apply it to products. Meta's AI research hasn't produced anywhere near as many state of the art products /revolutionary achievements.

> But Google actually knows how to do research and how to apply it to products.

I have seen basically no evidence of this. Google knows how to do research to create technology. Google is pretty terrible at creating product though.

Since we're comparing to Meta, you just have to look at the state of their publicly facing products that feature AI. Google has better AI models (Gemini, Nanobanana) and they've integrated them successfully into way more products than Meta has.

Meta spends a lot of money on AI research with little to show for it. As imperfect as Google may be, they're still doing much better.

Google knows how to do research - and at the very least lets other people figure out the products, and then becomes the #3 or #4 player.

Both GCP and Gemini are products of this. Modern cloud was arguably built by Google (think Chubby, GFS, Bigtable as building blocks) - they just spent 10 years ceding it to Amazon before competing.

Which is almost word for word the state Microsoft have been in for over 20 years.

To the point it was a running joke at MSR.

I'm not sure Microsoft is good at creating technology OR products. Microsoft is good at enterprise sales.

google knows how to do research, at any rate.

I was thinking more of their primary revenue source / money printer being their ads business like Meta then they also spend billions from it on all kinds of other bets.

In 2026 we need to update our mental model of Google. Google has been wildly successful at adding diversification. Around 40% of Google’s profit (depending on the quarter) comes from non-search income.

They build a wildly successful cloud platform, they’re expanding their subscription services, they’ve got enterprise offerings, etc

The trick is that Google accepted that none of their other business would likely have the margins and volume that search has, but they did it anyways.

Interesting I didn’t realize they had become so diversified.

Is it nothing though? How many Apple employees do you think use Windows? And how many Anthropic employees do you think use GitHub Copilot? I would assume the answer to both is approximately 0.

Shipping rootkits on their music CDs?

Funny how people seem to have forgotten that.

I've sworn off Sony products - well, as much as one can do so - for the past, what, 20 years? - because of that. It's kind of funny to me because I don't usually have a high opinion of "wallet activism", but one day when I was 20 I found out I had a rootkit installed on my computer by Sony and now they are _dead to me_.

I still hate that they got away with deleting my linux partition on my PS3.

That was a completely useless instance of linux and I think it was only ever done to get around some kind of tax or tarrif on game systems vs generic computers, but those are both beside the point.

When I gave them the money, I no longer controlled the money. It remained and still remains fully functional for them after that and I did not get to reach into their bank accounts and remove part of it or even just control what they can and can't spend it on. They got 100% of everything expected out of an exchange of ownership. And they also got to retain partial control of the PS3! What a great gig!