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  • Agreed. There was a time when it worked impressively well, but it’s become increasingly lazy, forgetful, and confidently wrong, even missing obvious explicit prompts. If you’re using it thoughtfully as an augment, fine. But if you’re relying on it blindly, it’s risky.

    That said, in my experience, Anthropic and OpenAI are still miles ahead. Perplexity had me hooked for a while, but its results have nosedived lately. I know they tune their own model while drawing from OpenAI and DeepSeek vs their own true model but still, whatever they’re doing could use some undoing.


















  • I was going to joke and say: that’s like, what, warp 0.0001.

    In the Star Trek universe, warp factors are a way to measure faster-than-light travel. The speed of light is approximately 299,792 kilometers per second (km/s). To convert your given speed of 32,000 km/hr into a warp factor, we need to use the formula that relates warp factor to the speed of light:

    v = c * (w^(10/3))

    where:

    •	v is the speed in multiples of the speed of light (c),
    •	w is the warp factor.
    

    First, convert 32,000 km/hr into kilometers per second (km/s):

    32,000 km/hr = 32,000 / 3,600 km/s ≈ 8.89 km/s

    Now, find the warp factor using the speed of light:

    w = (v / c)^(1 / (10/3))

    w = (8.89 km/s / 299,792 km/s)^(1 / (10/3))

    Calculate the fraction inside the parentheses:

    8.89 / 299,792 ≈ 0.00002967

    Now raise this to the power of 3/10:

    0.00002967^(3/10) ≈ 0.000657

    So, approximately:

    w ≈ 0.000657

    Therefore, a speed of 32,000 km/hr corresponds to a very low warp factor, approximately Warp 0.000657 in the Star Trek scale.