Tag archives for Grok
Claude Haiku 5.5: a diligent, dumb workhorse?
As people who follow my blog might know, I fell out of love with Claude at some point, despite it being one of my favorite chatbots for a long time.…
Now I am even more perplexed!
In my previous post, in a nutshell, I expressed my disappointment with Gemini (especially for coding, but also as an all-purpose chatbot) and, among other things, my surprise that ChatGPT’s…
The umpteenth AI compromise
I can't even remember how many times I changed my choice of chatbots in everyday use. Every time one chatbot angered me, I wanted to replace it, but each chatbot…
Chatbots are increasingly useless ● Searching for a watch
I don’t use chatbots to write either texts or code for me. For code, Gemini CLI wasn’t bad when I used it, and Qwen Code was very decent, too, but…
What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
This idea might come as a shock to those who noticed that I was quite a heavy user of Kimi lately. I mostly used it for answers that involved distilling…
The golden age of free LLM chatbots might soon end + BONUS
I'm trying to collect my thoughts on the current situation regarding the public availability of LLMs. This post comes as a quick follow-up to “Free AI coding agents are becoming…
Free AI coding agents are becoming scarce
Once again, I had this post in drafts for a week! It's time to put it in a readable form. ① Artificial Idiocy at work?② Interlude #1: No Gemma, no…
Ce nu știam despre monarhia britanică
E păcat că am început această discuție cu Grok în română. Chiar voiam să aflu ceva, însă ce am aflat chiar m-a uimit. Am hotărât să pun această discuție online…
Why do they still not explain AI properly?
There are three kinds of people on Earth. Monkeys who use chatbots, monkeys who pretend to explain how they work, so some other monkeys believe they understand, and the few…
Privacy aside, LLMs don’t learn when they could (and should)
I might be wrong. Maybe I don't understand that what I would do is not feasible or shouldn't be done this way. But the way these chatbots talked made me…
George Yeo and Shaun Rein talking about China and the US
Yong-Boon Yeo, aka George Yeo Yong-Boon, aka George Yeo, was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore between August 2004 and May 2011 (Wikipedia). Previously, he was Minister for Trade and…
Where can I place a bet on the way this war ends?
It might be the Third World War. Or not. It might lead to a new Great Depression. Or not. Iran might be destroyed in four weeks. Or maybe Israel will…
AI despre aventura ANAF cu blockchain
Știre: Statul român pune bonurile fiscale pe blockchain, ca ANAF să poată verifica datele direct într-un registru digital validat criptografic: Ministerul Finanțelor și Serviciul de Telecomunicații Speciale s-au apucat să…
AI Quickie: How strict are Arab countries compared to Iran?
Since the Islamic Revolution, the regime in Iran has been seen as extremely strict and oppressive: Sharia, fewer rights for women, the Ayatollah as the supreme leader that overrides the…
AI Quickie: Kubuntu vs. Fedora KDE
I have an uncertainty relative to the opportunity of sticking to Fedora over using Ubuntu, and this goes beyond the obvious. The obvious is this: Should I want stability and…
AI Quickie: The drone question
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the war has evolved towards the massive use of two types of drones: The Shahed/Gheran type, which are rather “old school” and…
Grok m-a lămurit cum funcționează de fapt frigiderele
Există o mare diferență între gândirea unui inginer electronist și cea a unui inginer frigotehnist din secolul 21, iar următoarea discuție cu Grok mi-a permis în cele din urmă să…
Arguing with Grok 4.20 (Beta) about Fedora
Since Grok seems to be very generous with me on its free layer these days, I thought of chatting with it about some aspects I never quite understood or accepted…
SJVN and the fragile bazaar
In a recent opinion column in The Reg, SJVN describes a severe problem that open-source software is facing today, namely the burnout of the (unpaid) software developers: Feeling the burn:…
Să-l sărbătorim pe Grok 4.20, care se descurcă și la limbi!
În ultima vreme am testat Grok 4.20 (Beta), pe care l-am găsit destul de bun. Se pare că pornește 4 agenți, din care 3 desfășoară investigații paralele, iar al patrulea…