For code generation, nothing so far beats Opus. More likely than not it generated working code and fixed bugs that Gemini 2.5 pro couldn't solve or even Gemini Code Assist. Gemini Code Assist is better than 2.5 pro, but has way more limits per prompt and often truncates output.
I found Anthropic’s models untrustworthy with SQL (e.g. confused AND and OR operator precedence - or simply forgot to add parens, multiple times), Gemini 2.5 pro has no such issues and identified Claude’s mistakes correctly.
Don’t sleep on Codex-CLI + gpt-5. While the Codex-CLI scaffolding is far behind CC, the gpt-5 code seems solid from what I’ve seen (you can adjust thinking level using /model).
Otherwise, what explains that there are those who say dark matter exists and build other opinions above it, and others dismiss its existence completely.
It means each is focussing on one subset of all the available observations. If three blind men discover an elephant and one gropes his trunk, another gropes a leg and a third gropes something else, they will come to very different conclusions about what an elephant is.
I can be a case study. I drink over 2 liters of Coca-Cola with aspartame, per day, every day on an empty stomach. With an energy drink, containing aspartame. I am not bragging, it is an addiction.
I also did that for 10+ years. I was actually drinking 3L a day in the last few years.
My BMI and checkups were good. But I was also IFing a lot, having big meals in my eating window and eventually had stomach problems: mild gastritis, hiatal hernia and strong esophagitis. As my family has some history of stomach problems, it's hard to say what was the culprit.
My taste buds say Coke Zero better approximates it, although it goes stale in just a few months so cannot sit on the shelf. To me, Diet Coke tastes shallow and like chemicals.
Limiting yourself to sucralose means paying a premium (it's only used in premium brands) and restricting what brands you can get. If you want "coke" specifically, aspartame is your only choice. They don't make sucralose cokes.
I was hooked on diet coke until one day I decided to take a break, and my tongue felt... weird. It felt slightly fizzy as if my brain was signaling that it was time to drink diet coke. On top of that, I felt lazy for a couple days.
I'm glad I was that self aware because I stopped drinking it everyday. Maybe 1 or two a month.
I attempted this just recently, I went 12+hrs without caffeine intake and I had the worst, headache that wouldn't go away with regular pills. Basically very intense caffeine withdrawal.
That lasts for up to a week and then you are through. You should find a quiet week and suffer through once just to prove to yourself you can and to decide whether to consume agaib clean
Or just taper. It is quite simple with caffeine for most people. Takes a few weeks. Just reduce consumption by 10-15% every 2-3 days. Symptoms should be much more manageable. I am at 2-3 cups of coffee per day. Maybe a diet red bull. If I stop outright I rarely even notice other than feeling a little slow that day. I am fine with that.
I only really had one a day around 3pm. It’s got like what, 50mg of caffeine? Not much.
Not even the morning/noon tea would pick me up. It was a different kind of lethargy that’s hard to explain and it went along with this uncomfortable sensation on my tongue.
Yeah I used to do 2-4 2-liters per day before I gave it up around 12 years ago. I’m hoping that, to the extent it does damage, the effect stops when you stop drinking it.
As far as I've read, our coke zero has a lot of added phosporus or a source of, it seems to somehow bind to calcium leading to perhaps bone loss.
I had an injury I thought was unrelated, but could be. Premature ankle joint wear. On inspection from a CAT scan machine, I was told I seem to have some abrasions on the bone around the damaged area, likely from or similar to osteoporosis and/or osteoarthritis.
Might be true, but I have a form of dyscalculia that made almost any sort of math impossible for me, so for this it doesn't affect me as I am not capable either way.
But AI has taken away my ability to think to solve a problem via code. Now all I do is just ask it.
