The fact that there's an entire consulting industry around helping people figure out very basic pricing for very basic tasks on AWS should be a wake-up call that their documentation and calculators are awful.

Then again I'm sure there's no incentive to improve it, since if for whatever reason you were laid off from AWS... you could have a lucrative consulting gig the next day helping people with the blindingly obvious consumer pain points you refused to resolve.

We now have several organizations actively iterating on the same idea: OpenAI, Google, Apple, etc., most of which have more resources at their disposal than most countries do. They are also in fierce competition with each other. There's also a trend line if you look at the rate of progress over the last decade.

Then again, Bill Gates thinks it may have plateaued. He ought to be privy to OpenAI's going-ons. That, and Gemini was underwhelming.

Is that a fucking Discord link on a Google property? Wild times.

Looks like we're starting to see the fruits of Google's labor since turning the dial to eleven after OpenAI stole the show. I have no horse in this race but I'm guessing within a year Google has market share (mind share?) parity with OpenAI.

Anyone still having issues? 3pm ET?

>All that said, IMHO, having Peanuts characters on MetLife ads, or visiting Camp Snoopy doesn’t cheapen or weaken the original strips.

I'd say it very much does.

The focus on Snoopy itself is when the strip "jumped the shark" (here's a take, https://kotaku.com/how-snoopy-killed-peanuts-1724269473 ).

Of course Schulz dilluted it decades before the end of the strip, getting all too into repeatition and mass market concessions.