They are flat-out incompetent. Siri has somehow regressed over the years and visual intelligence only works in demos. They have the most abominable integration with ChatGPT imaginable.
At least the MLX team has been shipping an impressive product.
I'd take a better Siri if it can happen on-device (for speed and privacy). They've been over-promising on Siri's capabilities for a decade at this point.
Me: Nah, it doesn't. I get fine-grained app permissions but there's a certain absurdity in using voice control for your CarPlay app, where Apple Maps is currently navigating you home, and you say "Find me the nearest Panera" and the reply is "Sorry, I don't know where you are."
At least a year ago, Chromium-based browsers were significantly more secure than Firefox, as measured by the rate at which high severity vulnerabilities were discovered every month and the ease with which Firefox would be hacked in competitions.
The trouble with Chrome is that it is deliberately configured to maximize Google's ad revenue. The omnibar does not show you recently visited websites when you start typing something because they want you to do another Google search so they can serve you more ads. The new extension model deliberately neutered the most effective ad blockers available.
Brave is Chrome without the perverse incentives. Their developers take a security-first approach to everything, to the extent of explicitly _not_ having a centralized sync service for bookmarks, passwords, etc. They have an excellent content blocker built in, thereby doing an end-run around Chrome's new extension model. The crypto wallet and Brave ads are optional - you can disable both in the settings very easily. And since it's a Chromium variant, you can use all of the existing Chrome extensions for third party software like 1Password and the like.
How is built-in ad blocking not the foremost priority? Brave and Comet both have it. uBlock Origin is not as effective as it used to be as of Manifest v3.
Ruby is a far better language from a design standpoint and Rails is a better framework in both design and maturity. Sadly, Ruby is a domain-specific language for web backends these days. Most new startups pick Python and TS for their versatility.
How much of your day-to-day is spent contributing code to the Bun codebase and do you expect it to decrease as Anthropic assigns more people to work on Bun?
You said elsewhere that there were many suitors. What is the single most important thing about Anthropic that leads you to believe they will be dominant in the coming years?
No idea about his feelings but believing that they will be dominant wouldn't have to be the reason he chose them. I could easily imagine that someone would decide based on (1) they offered enough money and (2) values alignment.
Neither of them is aiming to unseat Node.js from existing deployments. Bun has made inroads by being the foundation of Claude Code, Opencode, Midjourney. At my previous workplace, we replaced Yarn Classic with Bun for package management and replaced Bash scripts with Bun shell for setup and CI scripts.
Anthropic has RLed the shit out of their models to the extent that they give sub-par answers to general purpose questions. Google has great models but is institutionally incapable of building a cohesive product experience. They are literally shipping their org chart with Gemini (mediocre product), AI Overview (trash), AI Mode (outstanding but limited modality), Gemini for Google Workspace (steaming pile), Gemini on Android (meh), etc.
ChatGPT feels better to use, has the best implementation of memory, and is the best at learning your preferences for the style and detail of answers.
https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/building-safer-ai-browser...
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