Don't be naive. They definitely are Russian backed acts. Not all sabotage is done directly by their state security apparatus, funding useful idiots has been the Russian modus operandi since the Soviet times.

There is no evidence supporting this statement and a lot of evidence directly countering it.

I guess should low-key be happy that even expenses of 50 dollars per month for AI are being seen at ludicrous. Combined with our Microsoft only policy (i.e. ghcp), there's still hardly any serious ai use going on. Ah yes EU high tech companies...

I'm confused. Google has done this for several years already. I have a Firefox extension installed that reverts it - it's several years old.

They changed how they do it, such that it's no longer possible for extensions to revert it.

Most would applaud that as Sol has quite a reputation for over engineering. Not every software needs to go to the moon.

So your experience is that Astra doesn't over engineer? For more than twice the price of Sol I think most people will take the over engineering.

I found it to be less annoying in that regard then sol. Might just be that it better listens to what I instruct though.

But yeah, it's really expensive, at least in relative terms.

Ah yes the old "I have it but you don't"

Yeah, that's called diagnosis

So do you have an official diagnosis?

Yes.

So what is your complaint then?

Europeans were blowing each other up 80 years ago. Now we have complete freedom of movement and trade. You're missing the forest for the trees. The EU is the greatest achievement of our parents' generation.

There's a huge limitation with work trees that makes them borderline unusable: they can never be active on the same branch. Which includes that you can only ever have one on the master branch.

Yeah they aren't worth the trouble just because of this. Multiple checkouts are the way to go unless your repo is so huge that you can't afford the disk space. You can clone them from each other so you don't need to download the repo over and over and you can send branches back and forth locally if you really need to, though I never do.

What's the deal with anthropic? Their models aren't better. They're just multiple times more expensive. We're about to disable all anthropic models because of the colleagues who waste 15$ on a opus call to write a markdown file.

They were first to offer a frontier model which also meets enterprise requirements (i.e. not training on or retaining on customer data, able to purchase tokens through AWS and GCP instead of having to onboard a new vendor). They did so with a proprietary harness, which creates friction for teams inside enterprises to move (can't just install another harness - your IT org has to approve and configure another harness for you). In particular, they were the first to make their model acceptable for defense contractors, and defense spending is a huge market. (An F-35 costs $30k-40k per hour to run, you think an aerospace company notices $10k of API usage per month?)

> No AI helped in the writing of this message

Yeah maybe it should have. Because this is super incoherent and all over the place. Hard to parse what this is even about

Here it's only Microsoft (ghcp) allowed, and 39$ per month is considered ludicrous with no way to increase. Ah Europe

Sounds less a Europe thing and more a "your company" thing. Our company gives Claude Premium to everyone.

not a Europe thing