It's worse: Google added and then dropped even experimental support of jxl in 2021-2022. Several years later they adopted the rust jxl library, but have kept it behind experimental flags.

"No nukes" was Sun Microsystems lawyers' liability reduction, not a political statement.

See https://www.lawinsider.com/clause/note-on-java-support/_2 for the specific verbiage and diffs over time.

If your engineer tells you that, you're going to have a bad time.

I think you're thinking this:

> If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. -Reid Hoffman

Nope, current flagship models are very happy to make huge missteps across the whole development stack of design, planning, implementation, and testing -- but playing different models against each other can help catch more egregious issues.

This is a very recent model behavior change: for me, Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 5.4(ish) -- prior models and harnesses suffered much more from sycophancy.

(I still prompt some questions and reviews with "our intern suggested..." to allow models to judge the quality of the content apart from the messenger)

I've found this surprisingly effective. Higher "thinking levels" may result in more than one approach being considered, but you can also tell your LLM to do brainstorming explicitly: https://photostructure.com/coding/claude-code-replan/

I applied it to PhotoStructure more than a year ago—I think it was when I first saw this on HN?

My point is that there *is* such a thing as software that tries to respect their users. I'm not the only one.

Random crowd anecdata is still anecdata.

you're not wrong, but anecdata is not data. Here's some more data: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-perform...

Since when did corporations care? Most seem to just pay their insurance premium for cyber liability and call it a day.

There is a difference between leaking user accounts and passwords and getting your business destroyed overnight entirely.

Imagine if an AI can infiltrate your SaaS database and delete your entire database and every single backup. The business is dead immediately.

Did that happen to a lot of companies during the log4shell fiasco? I'm sure some companies had their permissions misconfigured in a way such that a malicious actor who could execute code on their servers could also drop their database and delete their backups.

I don't know. But the point is that anyone who has access to this model might be able to do the same thing to any company or government.

Equifax is still around.

Yup. No noxious fumes.