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This is funny because everyone’s AI strategy should have been “What do we actually need to be productive?” Which is how Anthropic pulled ahead of Microsoft, t
by tylerchilds 9mo ago
This is funny because everyone’s AI strategy should have been
“What do we actually need to be productive?”
Which is how Anthropic pulled ahead of Microsoft, that prioritized
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Taking screenshots of every windows user’s desktop every few seconds. For productivity.
- paxys 9mo agoAnthropic has a model. Microsoft doesn't.
- satvikpendem 9mo agoMicrosoft can use OpenAI models but it's not the model that's the problem, it's the application of them. Anthropic simply knows how to execute better.
- bhadass 9mo agothey should just acquire one of the many agent code harnesses. Something like opencode works just as well as claude-code and has only been around half of the time.
- w0m 9mo agoI used opencode happily for a while before switching to copilot cli. Been a minute , but I don't detect a major quality difference since they added Plan mode. Seems pretty solid, and first party if that matters to your org.
- formerly_proven 9mo agoAs evidenced by Anthropic models not performing well in github presents copilot.
- speedgoose 9mo agoI read that a few times but from my personal observations, Claude Opus 4.5 is not significantly different in GitHub Copilot. The maximum context size is smaller for sure, but I don’t think the model remembers that well when the context is huge.
- doomslayer999 9mo agoAnthropic's Models are better though. It may not "perform" as well on the LLM task benchmarks, but its the only one that actual gives semi-intelligent responses and seems aligned with human wants. And yes, they definitely have much better execution. It's the only one I considered shelling out 20 bucks for.
- satvikpendem 9mo agoGPT 5.2 Codex is often better and more thorough than Opus 4.5, it's just slower.
- pixl97 9mo agoMicrosoft has a model nearly as old as the company. Attempt to build a product... Fail. Buy someone else's product/steal someone else's product... Succeed.
- Octoth0rpe 9mo agoThat's a "business" model, not a language model, which I believe is what the poster is referring to. In any case though, MS does have a number of models, most notably Phi. I don't think anyone is using them for significant work though.
- pixl97 9mo agoIt's a word play, if their LLM model sucks too much they'll get someone else's. I mean they fought the browser war for years, then just used Chrome.
- torginus 9mo agoWhich is kind of a bummer - it'd have helped the standards based web to have an actual powerful entity maintain a distinct implementation. Firefox is on life-support and is basically taking code from Blink wholesale, and Webkit isn't really interested in making a browser thats particularly compliant to web standards. MS's calculus was obvious - why spend insane amounts of engineering effort to make a browser engine that nobody uses - which is too bad, because if I remember correctly they were not too far behind Chrome in either perf or compatibility for a while.
- bee_rider 9mo agoA large language model, or a business model?
- tylerchilds 9mo agoOne has existed since the 80s, when was the other founded?
- Gud 9mo agoWhat does it matter? And Microsoft was founded in the 70s..
- iAMkenough 9mo agoI think they're implying Microsoft is having a Kodak moment
- jug 9mo agoThey do have some in-house LLM's (Phi) but they seem to either have issues with, or not thinking it's worth it, to develop large flagship ones.
- bobsmooth 9mo agoRecall actually sounds like it could be useful but there's a snowball's chance in hell that I would trust Microsoft to not spy on me.
- jacquesm 9mo agoOn the contrary, you could trust it 100% to spy on you. That's the whole reason that functionality exists.
- Nevermark 9mo agoAlways trust people. Trust people to be themselves. For some reason, people have great cognitive difficulty with defensive trust. Charlie Brown, Sally.
- dangus 9mo agoI don’t plan on using the feature and I don’t plan on using Windows much longer in the first place, but I find that going beyond the ragebait headlines and looking at the actual offering and its privacy policy and security documentation makes it look a lot more reasonable. Microsoft is very explicit in detailing how the data stays on device and goes to great lengths to detail exactly how it works to keep data private, as well as having a lot of sensible exceptions (e.g., disabled for incognito web browsing sessions) and a high degree of control (users can disable it per app). On top of all this it’s 100% optional and all of Microsoft’s AI features have global on/off switches.
- Dusseldorf 9mo agoUntil those switches come in the crosshairs of someone's KPIs, and then magically they get flipped in whatever direction makes the engagement line go up. Unfortunately we live in a world where all of these companies have done this exact thing, over and over again. These headlines aren't ragebait, they're prescient.
- dangus 9mo ago
- luddit3 9mo agoYou were robbed last night. No way Jelly Roll should have won.
- tylerchilds 9mo agoI love you for this reference lol I hate how I’ve had a web site with my name on it since 2008 and when you google my name verbatim it says “did you mean Tyler Childers” Such shade from the algorithm, I get it, I get it, software is lamer than music.
- halapro 9mo agoFun fact: I used to automatically screenshot my desktop every few minutes eons ago. This would occasionally save me when I lost some work and could go back to check the screenshots. I only gave it up because it felt like a liability and, ahem, it was awkward to review screenshots and delete inopportune ones.
- zamadatix 9mo agoRecall is great for bashing but relatively inconsequential to anything Microsoft has been doing in this space outside that.
- rustyhancock 9mo agoAlthough it seems in Europe we might all end up with recall style screenshots and scanning of what we're looking at. Part of me wonders if Microsoft knew it would appeal to governments. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/uk-to-encourage-apple-and-google-to-put-nudity-blocking-systems-on-phones/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/uk-to-encourage-...
- tylerchilds 9mo agoI mean. Ask any gamer if the original Xbox One announcement needing a Kinect and persistent internet connection was a feature request from them or a three letter org. As someone that was there, we saved the Xbox brand by bullying Microsoft out of normalizing spying on kids and their whole families.