Chatgpt 5.2 thinking is significantly better quality for most knowledge work, but it trades off in speed.

That has been my experience. Primarily because it is allowed to expend far more test-time tokens than Gemini 3.0 Pro to solve the same prompt.

And GPT costs 4x as much

It really depends on the complexity of code. I've found models (codex-5.1-max, opus 4.5) to be absolutely useless writing shaders or ML training code, but really good at basic web development.

Interesting, I've been using Claude Max with UE5 and while it isn't _brilliant_ with shaders I can usually get it to where I want. Also had a bit of success with converting HLSL shaders to GLSL with it.

I've asked it to write some non-trivial three.js code and have not gotten it to succeed.

Which is no surprise as the data for web development stuff exists in large amounts on the web that the models feed off.

I saw the same post on Reddit and was so tempted to purchase it, but I live in the US. Cool to see it wasn't a scam!

We can get around tariffs, if that is your concern.

Honestly I wasn't going to drop ~10k USD on an unknown seller that was from another country.

There is always some risk in business and life itself...

12-15 hours of recording is maybe 2 weeks usage for heavy users. It would've been perfect if it could connect to computers and had a rechargeable battery. Oh well, hope someone else takes inspiration and makes the same thing but can recharge.

> It would've been perfect if it could connect to computers

If their goal truly is "New Pebble", then surely something that could connect to a phone could connect to a computer, granted you have the available radios connected to your computer. Seems to be BT in this case.

> and had a rechargeable battery

Yeah, seems like a weird thing to do, but I guess trying to solve this would make the device a lot harder. Hoping at least there will be a DIY route to replace the batteries, I don't have the will to be sending back an electrical device every second month because the battery died, and then waiting for a new device to arrive in the mail.

Edit: I was just about to ask if you think they'll send the replacement device before you've sent in the one that had the expired battery, but now I realize it isn't even clear if they expect us to buy a brand new device when the battery runs out, or if they provide a replacement? The former would be an absolutely bananas proposition.

It's very clear that you have to buy a new one.

> Before the battery runs out, the Pebble app notifies and asks if you’d like to order another ring.

Yeah, that changed my outlook to slightly above neutral to kind of disgusted if so. It's a disposable dictation ring?

That would be a minute of recording for every 22-28 minutes. That is some seriously heavy use. Especially considering that doesn't include sleep.

I worked in this building. It was terrible. Low light, completely open office, people walking around you all the time, extremely noisy, pretty ugly (the roof-top garden was the exception). My team expensed noise cancelling headphones because it was so loud.

MPK 22 was also designed by Gehry Partners, which was a massive improvement on the inside, but outside is still kinda terrible in my opinion: https://www.truebeck.com/project/facebook-mpk-22/

Not surprising to hear. I mean Gehry has always been more flair than quality. His studio has probably weakest execution from all of the star architects. But it's a great brand i guess thats why you hire Gehry.

I mean, having been in that building a few times, and working on the other side of the street, it's pretty clear the reason that building is such a disaster is that the architects did what the clients asked for. I like to give Gehry the benefit of the doubt, maybe that's cause he guest starred on Arthur. But you can only tell the client they're dumb and their building will suck to be in so many times before you just go ahead and let them have their hellscape.

The roof was pretty nice though.

Wow you weren't kidding. The insides of that looks like an absolute hellscape. Like a whole floor is missing and they just set up shop in a warehouse!

I’ve spent some time there, and it did seem like a building that was primarily designed for satellite view — never mind what goes on inside.

Same. Echo chamber hell. I appreciated the modernness of the interior as a design nerd, though it was uncomfortable as a primary desk for all the reasons you’ve said. Never mind the never ending flood of visitors up and down the walkways.

The roof was the main reprieve about the entire environment, wonderfully maintained and honestly a blessing to escape the main campus.

Nonetheless. Frank is a legend, very fortunate to have been able to been able to experience his work on a daily basis.

https://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde has a story of designing a 3d print for foxtails.

dog's ready for WW1 trenches

also have to work on my own CAD skills for complex contours like that, been in parameteric/SketchUp land

wow that's a nice one

Nowhere in the page does it state that's it's a world model.

It's called world gen.

I know nothing about games and game development, but comments INSTA-sticking up for bigCo is increasingly hilarious to me.

World generation is different than world modeling. It's like java versus javascript. I'm not sure why I bother with technical discussion on hacker news anymore.

My comment was too snarky. I take your point. Based on the discussion this capability is closer to a really cool automated asset pack than "building 3D worlds". My understanding of world modeling is towards AGI, and you're saying nobody implied this is world modeling.

You're right. But the criticism is that it's closer to 2D asset packs than it is to 3D worlds and you're being overly charitable to Meta and underly charitable to the community response.

edit: this is just my over sharing of why i downvoted you. I didn't intent for you to feel dismissed.

Wow, so excited to try!

> gemini

It seems like you don't have access to Gemini 3. Learn more at https://goo.gle/enable-preview-features To disable Gemini 3, disable "Preview features" in /settings. • 1. Switch to gemini-2.5-pro • 2. Stop Note: You can always use /model to select a different option.

Google never disappoints with their half-ass-launches.

I believe this is because you are logged in. You can generate a free API key (with very low limits) through Google AI Studio and use that to test it.

In an ideal world, this workaround would not be needed

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

or you know a normal world where google could get their act together tying together their different business logic

Don't make up quotes and put words in other people's mouths. Own your words.

I've been using GPT-5.1-thinking for the last week or so, it's been horrendous. It does not spend as much time thinking as GPT-5 does, and the results are significantly worse (e.g. obvious mistakes) and less technical. I suspect this is to save on inference compute.

I've temporarily switched back to o3, thankfully that model is still in the switcher.

edit: s/month/week

Not possible. GPT-5.1 didn’t exist a month ago. I helped train it.

Double checked when the model started getting worse, and realized I was exaggerating a little bit on the timeframe. November 5th is when it got worse for me. (1 week in AI feels like a month..)

Was there a (hidden) rollout for people using GPT-5-thinking? If not, I have been entirely mistaken.