This.

Android feels like more of a liability than an asset to Google these days.

A few years ago, if you visit a site, your laptop grinds to a halt and the fan starts spinning like crazy, you know there is crypto mining happening on the site.

(btw that was a really good showcase for WebAssembly. Too bad it's used for illegitimate purposes)

Meanwhile Stanford's CS336 (Language Modeling from Scratch) requires an application for enrollment.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260316042004/https://cs336.sta...

Students don't enroll in a class for various reasons, but most likely because it's useless (or at least people perceive it as useless). At top universities, even notoriously challenging courses have a decent class size.

What's people's experience of using MiniMax for coding?

I had a really bad time with it. I use (real) Claude Code for work so I know what a good model feels like. MiniMax's token plan is nice but the quality is really far from Claude models.

I needed to constantly "remind" it to get things done. Even for a four sentence prompt in a session that is well below the context window, MiniMax would ignore half of it. This happens all the time. (This is Claude Code + MiniMax API, set up using official instructions)

Basically, if I say get A, B and C done, it will only do A and B. I say, you still need to do C, so it does C but reverts the code for A.

Things that Claude can usually one shot takes 5 iterations with MiniMax.

I ended up switching to Claude to get one of my personal projects done.