You sure it was 3.8 Flash? It hasn't been called Gemini cli in a WHILE...

Nothing will change before we get perp walks. Money means nothing here.

Yeah, it's the same on Mac/iphone but better codecs. Still lossy but better than the Android experience

Better than the iPods on Android experience. If you do Android-on-Android, the experience is on par. See e.g. Samsung Super Wide Band for voice.

I bought the top rated Sony's on Android and it was awful. Glad to hear there's better options!

My understanding is that broad state power to the benefit of the people, Scandinavia style, is not the same as broad state power to monitor and/or control the people.

Arguably those two types of power are in conflict in terms of desired outcomes.

Scandinavian state power has been used to increase crime through immigration

My most used follow-ups with Opus 5 are "one thing at a time" and "too much text".

Really hope they figure this thing out

It seems they are taking it seriously now - Boris et al have been mentioning they are working on a fix and shipped a temporary band-aid output style to combat Opus 5's horrendous prose.

We'll see if they can do it, I originally got into Claude Code because it, at the time, felt more accessible/conversational than Codex/Gemini. Now it's shifted to say the least

They seem to have been rushed with certain releases. It is impossible they didn’t know or see this awful writing before 5 series.

Yeah agree. Someone on HN posed the theory that the dogfooding might have worked against them here - the theory is that internally they used Fable as conversational agent and Opus as subagents, leading to Opus falling deeper into a style mainly aimed at other LLMs.

All conjecture of course, and yeah it's hard to imagine they would enjoy this prose internally

Fable can't write in a legible manner either.

I find it slightly more acceptable, but yeah agree, still bad.

The societal hurt coming out of public releases of image/video generation models must surely outweight the gain. That said, this is super impressive.

At least we have parking lots. Ah, so many parking lots

I was thinking that, but the use of em-dashes is different from the normal LLM use.

If this is straight out of an LLM I am impressed

Interesting question for sure, but for now the writing is just bad. So people might not know it's LLM prose, they just notice its poorly written and engage with the ideas less