Who would be among those 5? Are these big tech? Or large corporates?

likely mag 7, big tech, megacorps like accenture, etc.

Someone doubled the bitcoin amount :D

It would be fun if many shipped in some $ for this to be a realistic bounty, but then again, OP could just take the money him/herself...

Why did you decide for the 5070 Ti? You will always suffer compared to the 5090?

I assume due to price. The 5070 Ti costs ~$1k, the 5090 costs ~$3.5k.

There seems to be no hold out data for test, so this is just overfitting?

I switched from CC to Codex a few days ago. I get limited much less and the code quality is similar, so not looking back

Which plan? And how are the weekly limits on that plan compared to CCs equivalent subscription?

I don't really care about 5h limits, I can queue up work and just get agents to auto continue, but weekly ones are anxiety inducing.

CC usage limits and the 5 hour cool downs are what made me realize that I can't depend on this tool in a professional setting.

That claim is widely believed to be bullshit.

Whoops, seems like my question got removed while posting, so here goes:

It seems Gemini couples app activity (I can see my chat history) with AI training.

This is horrible...

Any way around it to make Gemini usable without my data being used for training?

You could pay for API tokens, if their policy is any different.

It says 24y in his profile - is that really the more senior at Ars?

An account that's 24 years old? That doesn't raise any warning flags for me, only possibly-positive ones.

Yes, unless the original owner is still involved Aurich is likely most senior left.

Ken is still the EIC of Ars, and has been for nearly 30 years now, likely longer than most of people in this thread have been alive.

You can literally read the staff directory without having to guess: https://arstechnica.com/staff-directory/

Most of the people working at Ars are the exact same people who have been working there for the better part of their entire existence (source: me) Most of them _are_ experts in their fields, and most are vastly more qualified in their fields than pretty much anyone else publishing online (both now and 20 years ago).

It seems that _certain kinds of individuals_ have had rose-colored glasses on about pretty much everything online, but for Ars especially for some reason.

They detest change in a publication that covers the reality of actual life and technology, rather that commit suicide and stay covering stuff the same way they did in 1997—which 8 people total want to read (and not pay for, by the way).

Ars has been operating at an exceptionally high level for their entire history and have outlasted many other flashes-in-the-pan which are now relegated to the dust bin of history.

Is Ken still actively involved? He seems to appear to clarify something and then disappear into the background until the next major change (I expect the article about this to be bylined to him, as is appropriate).

He is the Editor in Chief, so yes, he is involved.

His account on the Ars Forum is 24 years old. Aurich himself is much older (lol)

How are the runs isolated? Can I run multiple parallel sessions on the same repo? What about security / sandboxing to avoid exfiltration of data etc? Thanks!

Yeah, we have parallel agent functionality, sort of like conductor. This allows you to create worktrees for your repo and run any number of chats per worktree. On your local machine, we don't have any unique sandboxing capabilities, but we reuse your sandboxing settings from Claude or Codex if you have them set. The cloud sandboxing is more isolated, but still has access to the internet.

Yes and no I'd say. It's still the case that now only by iterating and testing things with the AI you get closer to an actually good solution. So up front big spec will also not work so well. The only exception maybe if you already have a very clear understanding and existing tests (like what they did with the Claude's building the rust c compiler to compile the Linux kernel)