OpenAI is a few years behind Anthropic, and it's unlikely they'll catch up at this point.

Where exactly are they behind?

everywhere, but most important in ethics

They’re about even in general, but for me OpenAI is slightly or significantly ahead in the areas I care about the most. E.g. claude code is a backend slop cannon if you don’t tell codex/gemini to review the outputs.

Give it a year or two, and apple or any other hardware will have unified memory OR AMD will have a good offering to run all that stuff locally. It won't be as good as Claude, but it'll do for 90% of the things. It will be expensive as first, just like the first mainframes, then give it another 5 years or so, and it'll be affordable.

I'd argue this has already happened. The highest end mac pro is $10k and down from there. We might be returning to the appliance business model.

Its just a matter of Productizing the software to plug and play light office admin work.

Microsoft will buy OpenAI for $500B, rebrand it as Microsoft AI.

This is where they are headed. But the real price will be a lot less.

those tote bags are the town's talk!!!

probably got simswapped, but personal emails should hold no work-related information, so this is not a huge deal is it?

one cursor for you one cursor for claude code :)

I've used xv from the mid-nineties until now, I still have it on my desktop, it's been 30 years, there's just no viable replacement IMHO.

RIP John.

after about 10+ years in the Apple ecosystem, I'm completely done, my next machine is linux and my next phone is android.

I believe Android will be blocking installations from outside Google play except through adb

My company is now removing all microsoft products, all of it. Laptops are moving to OSX. Office365->Gmail+G-suite. Zoom->Google meet. Fortunately we don't use Azure or Github, so that will make the transition easier.

This is still bad, but maybe less bad.

Take a look at Swissmicros' DM42n + DB48x.

Wow these are beautiful machines - thanks for the tip!