I purchased an EV this year, my highest priority was range per dollar, and the vehicle I selected happened to be new because of current market conditions. (Equinox EV for under 25k otd after incentives)
I agree, claude is an impressive agent but it seems like it's impatient and trying to make its own thing, tries to make its own tests when I already have them, etc. Maybe better for a new project.
GPT 5 (at least with cline) reads whatever you give it, then laser targets the required changes.
With High, as long as I actually provided enough relevant context it usually one shots the solution and sometimes even finds things I left out.
The only downside for me is it's extremely slow, but I still use it on anything nuanced.
> agree, claude is an impressive agent but it seems like it's impatient and trying to make its own thing, tries to make its own tests when I already have them, etc. Maybe better for a new project.
Nope, Claude will deviate from it's own project as well.
Claude is brilliant but needs hard rules. You have to treat it and make it feel like the robot it really. Feed it a bit too much human prose in your instructions and it will start to behave like a teen.
Well, most new software is a nightmare too. And recently a lot of it started to try to do the wrong thing by design, what's an extra step into nightmare scenario beyond anything from 80s.
> I just switched to the iPhone with the new cycle, explicitly because of this news.
And guess what, sideloading has never been allowed on iPhones.
So you just went from bad to worse. The only rational option for tech-minded people nowadays is to buy a device that supports Lineage or Graphene (ironically Pixels are good for this) and to replace the stock OS.
Well no, the iPhone has niceties that Android lacks (as evidenced by its total market dominance for markets who can afford Apple devices). Lots of engineers use Android phones, but the C-suite invariably uses iPhones.
So if the reason you're choosing Android over iOS is freedom and flexibility, once that's gone, why not choose slickness, speed, battery-life, photo quality, and an integrated experience?
I have owned iPhones in the past (and still have a couple of old models collecting dust in a drawer), and I don't think they are in any way more refined than my Pixel 9 running Graphene. Most importantly, it is immune to arbitrary restrictions like sideloading bans or government-mandated spyware (aka Chat Control in Europe).
