Damn. I tried using it yesterday in a conversation about mixing my own carb drings and electrolytes (continuing from opus 4.6) but fable rejected it for whatever reason. Not sure how I could use fructose and maltodextrin for anything shady, but ok. And now it's gone and I couldn't even test it once! Dammit

Glad I'm not the only one. Almost every factual thing with new opus is wrong (and it now even happens with 4.6?). I asked it about car stuff yesterday and it totally misrepresented how a car axle even looks like fundamentally. Today I talked about my CV and it was just plain wrong. I don't know what happened, it wasn't like this a few weeks back and I'm even considering cancelling claude alltogether. GPT 5.5 for coding is fine and way more stable, but regular work is just broken.

By differences in the release dates between 4.7 and 4.8 it seems it was more likely an attempted bugfix

But 4.8 still underperforms on most tasks. I have things running where 4o-mini does it considerably better repeatably.

They might have tuned it for a particular reason and I would not doubt that the harness has been made worse.

Sometimes it teases me to think it does wrong things on purpose

Walking a lot is beneficial for so many other reasons. As an ultra/trail runner I use it for supplemental training so I walk 35 minutes to the office (and the same back) at a minimum. I take stairs most of the times vs the elevator. It's easier to be mobile, you don't even think about it. Even on rest days. Increases my caloric burn, helps me regulate, boosts mood, gives me time to call people, think about stuff. I love this lifestyle. Highly recommended!

> account management relationships

in my experience hetzner does have that. my VP of infra had regular contact with them, was quite important actually because we had scaling needs they couldn't deliver on and we had timelines. hetzner still has issues getting enough intel servers on it seems

What a load of horsecrap. Google was never good at usability or UX. But that's a new low. This is ambiguous as it gets and good UX is opposite of that. If I need to undo half the stuff that happened or an AI starts to do stuff I don't want ot because I am moving my mouse in a certain way I'd just get angry and turn it off.

Doesn't change anything about opus 4.7 being an absolute buffon. Even going back to opus 4.6 doesn't feel like the magical period maybe 3-4 weeks ago. Gonna go back to openAI

Meetings aren't even the worst resource wasters. Wrong initiatives, features, apps/platforms/services are. They capture future resources in form of maintenance and complexity with them.

Agreed, and this is where I think some more nuanced and conscious use of tech debt can be used when applicable.

It might be OK to place some bets on an initiative or feature, but if we all understand we're placing a bet, this is an area to load up on debt and really minimize the investment. This also requires an org that is mature about cutting the feature if the bet doesn't materialize, and if the market signal is generated will reinvest in paying down the debt. And also has the mega-danger territory of a weak market signal, where it's not clear if there is market signal or not, so the company doubles down into the weak signal.

Also these bets shouldn't be done in isolation in my view, well executed product and market discovery should also provide lots of relevant context on the ROI.

Totally agreed! I think good orgs that run well have a good feedback process and ownership between the individual teams. In my experience, the closer they work together, the more visible the impact is on ROI. The less context everybody has, the higher the risk that an initiative goes sideways and doesn't fully match the intent.

And yeah, cutting features and offloading debt is important. I love that part when starting an engagement! It's a bit of work to check critical execution paths and how customers actually use a product, but it's a good excercise for everybody to see the relationship between revenue and code.

This all sounds easy and in reality it's not the hardest, but for some reason no one is doing it.

I do tech dd, exit readiness and post merger integration in tech companies and this is my daily bread. The biggest lever I have: connecting initiatives to ROI/bottom line impact. It's incredible how blind product/software teams run. So much to do but most of it won't make any money and just feels productive. Connecting activities and work directly towards revenue is very important.

If your company runs well: won't hurt you much that you're not doing this. Otherwise this will be your end. And that really hurts because you lose the economical impact of the product and the jobs.

You sure? You ever ran a business? Prototyping costs, machines, licenses, overhead etc. etc.

The prototyping and machine costs are easily under a million. It's one custom-built vacuum.

You can do it with 0-3 digits of license cost too.

There's no sane way the business overhead more than doubles things.

looks pretty cool, but as all AI landing pages do, it suffers from not enough contrast. you might want to lighten the darker text shades ;)

Thanks for the feedback, I'll do that! I think different screens and system settings affect this a lot, on all the devices I've looked at the site on I felt it was quite comfortable to read, not to discount your experience, I'll keep that in mind for the future as well.