I do believe this will be the norm from now on to get access to top frontier model. Computing capacity plus state restrictions plus KYC will be imposed to organisations to get access, individuals will be served last on the queue with degraded performance. Once the Chinese models catch up, nobody (at least individuals) will turn back again to frontier labs.

This seems less about frontier models and restriction and more just lack of compute capacity to meet demand. This has always been an issue for large clients running on cloud, though not to this extent.

BMW's latest infotainment despite being intimidating for first time users is quite decent and intuitive compared to the horrors I saw from other German car makers.

We got a $12,000 bill a few hours ago on a presumably leaked gemini API which I very much doubt, and we are trying to resolve the issue with a real support agent. I think they messed something internally and customers are getting these bills.

It is 100% vibe coded.

5.3 codex is a quite good coding agent for complex tasks.

Gemini 3 pro is way better than Opus especially for large codebases.

Do you use it only for code editing, or also for running bash commands? My experience is that it is very bad at the latter.

My experience is the total opposite.

There is already a C library that does realtime ascii rendering using décision trees:

GitHub: https://github.com/symisc/ascii_art/blob/master/README.md Docs: https://pixlab.io/art

The OP's ASCII art edges look way better than this

Congratulations for the launch. Actually we launched a similar product recently named Vision Workspace (https://vision.pixlab.io). The general chat niche is quite saturated and practically locked by the major players. I recommend that you focus on one core feature and pivot from there. For us it was the built-in OCR and document query interface inside the UI that initiated the traction and the app is quite popular now in Japan and Malaysia.

I work on the PixLab prompt based photo editor (https://editor.pixlab.io), and it follows exactly what you type with explicit CAPS.

Imagine paying $200/mo for this privacy nightmare