its clear from their efforts thus far (image playground jesus fuck) that AI and even prompt engineering talent actively flocks away from them

Haven't you heard? Prompt engineering is dead. The cool kids are making Claude prompt itself. They're writing loops, not prompts. It's all about optimal tip-to-tip efficiency now.

“I don’t prompt Claude anymore. I have loops running that prompt Claude and figuring out what to do. My job is to write loops”.—Boris Cherny

What's wrong with image playground? I haven't used it.

Lol that sucks. But FYI you can set it to a triple press of the power button.

Only maybe fifty million of them are paying, though.

It does not look nearly as good when you compare paying customers.

that's been available from the beginning

The median linux pc user is on Chrome OS from their school :p

I presume they meant if you filter out for Chrome and Android ;)

1.2M car-related deaths worldwide every year. WW1 worth every decade.

we never stopped doing that!

Fastmail seems good but there’s some comfort from tutanota/protonmail promising to store my emails e2e encrypted (though they obviously can read them on send/receive). Have you tried them? What was your opinion?

It’s not bizarre once you realize it raised some team’s engagement metrics (like # of emails sent) by 2%, a result they were unable to achieve otherwise, so they shipped it and celebrated a win