> Europe’s biggest problem, I think, is its lost mojo.

Europe's biggest problem is that every decision can be vetoed by one of the member states. Which in practice means that the EU has very little power.

No, not every decision made in Europe can be vetoed by any EU member state. Only EU decisions can be vetoed by EU member states.

This was implicit :(

Not really! People think everything is about the EU, but that's like an American thinking everything is a UN decision.

It’s effectively the same as what I mean - or a part of it. You fix this with either better "alignment” (ugh!) ie conviction of going in a particular direction, leading to a consensus. Or in turn, a conviction that the veto is bad and needs to be curbed for the overall benefit of everyone.

That's not been true for a long time. About 80% of EU laws are passed by qualified majority voting.

Well, at least he has the YouTube ads.

It wouldn't be cool because it would still hand your data to Google.

I assume Google was just a placeholder for a search engine in the example. And you'll surely need some service to search the web.

I don't know about that. When I hear people reference "Google" it seems to me they do mean Google. Similar with "Claude".

We’ve got the whole post to parse, though.

The idea is obviously applicable to other search engines.

People still use “Google” as a synonym for “online search.”

Yes, and IME it also is true that "online search" means in fact google.com. And there's no distinction for search results and reading the google AI summary.

It could anonymize the data, at least.

Keep clicking them and never give up!

Yeah but should programming issues become "how can I be more friendly to the waiter so they give me what I want?"

That's not what I want programming to become. I'd choose a different profession then. Maybe I'd become a surgeon because the AI labs haven't cracked robotics yet. And the people in general look up to surgeons and down to IT people, but that's another story.

Sadly, you will have to choose another profession, and as your example shows, the better paying ones need 10 years of gruntwork to get there.

I thought Datomic was back.

I like the idea of someone losing hundreds of millions of dollars if my plane goes down.

Wow, that's quite some leg space!

How do you know you're using Astra?

My ChatGPT env only says "low", "medium", "high".

Is this a "pro" thing? I have totally no idea what I'm talking to, so actually I'm thinking of stopping my plan. Gemini and Claude are much more clear about it.

Anyway, I like the speed at which Gemini responds so indeed for simple things it is preferable.

For me (Plus plan, iOS app), Astra only shows up under the Work tab.

I’ve been using Work for all my queries, since it seems to just be the same interface as Chat but with more features. I don’t understand why they’re two separate things.

Aha, yes you're right! Thanks.

For the old school (I hate that that’s arguably applicable) AI dating types, and so on. The people using it not for productivity.

Can it work from technical drawings?

Like, I give it a datasheet containing a number of projections and the tool produces a correct model with the proper dimensions?

You can already do that with GPT Astra. Having LLMs use UI manually is very expensive on the token side though.

What is the success rate?

Very high with the correct tooling. Vision tends to be the worst reasoning mode for LLMs compared to code, which is why I rely on a code-first approach for my own software stack. Essentially, they need to have a way to keep part of the drawing in focus to avoid getting distracted by the dimensions they don't need in their vision.

https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/Aetheris/blob/master/sampl...

The initial dimensions of this phone were one-shot by Codex Astra from the publicly available 2D drawing, and we spent another turn implementing the G2 continuous fillet blend surface for that particular camera bump. If you have a STEP viewer, you can check the dimensions against that phone company's drawings which was posted on HN with their other products yesterday I think, and all of them should match exactly down to the drawing tolerances.

It really depends on the complexity of the model you are trying to generate and the budget you have.