Yes, ChatGPT 5.2 Pro absolutely still does this. Just ask it for a pivot table using Polars and it will probably spit out code with Pandas arguments that doesn’t work.
The fact they pivoted away from their very compelling core offering (AI stack overflow) to complete with loveable etc in the "AI generated apps" giant fight continues to baffle me. Though I guess model updates ate their lunch.
My guess is that their pivot came after distress, and was not the cause of it. It'd be great to have @rushingcreek write a post-mortem. I think it'd benefit a lot of people because I honestly don't have a monday morning playbook of what could have saved them.
Like you said, perhaps the demise of phind was inevitable, with large models displacing them kind of like how Spotify displaced music piracy.
I did look at instructor and probably for structured output pydantic-ai and instructor are about the same, but pydantic-ai supports a ton of other stuff that isn't part of instructor's feature set. For me killer apps were the ability to serialize/deserialize conversations as json; frictionless tool-calling; and ability to mock the LLM client for testing.
Have you considered whether this is because of the local weather tendencies? I visited the Netherlands once in summer near Amsterdam, and there were short bursts of rain frequently throughout the day. I'd imagine weather patterns like that are not well represented in global weather apps lowering the prediction accuracy in such regions.
As far as I can tell, it's largely a data or modeling problem.
Weather radars exist in most of Europe, including all of Western Europe. What's missing is somebody actually getting that data (which is not open in all countries) and feeding it into a short-term precipitation prediction model like Dark Sky (now Apple) does in a few regions.
Currently, in regions where it's not available, I just do that manually: Look the rain radar data for the last hour or so and extrapolate linearly based on wind direction. You'll miss rain that's just starting or stopping or sudden changes in wind direction, but it's much better than what many apps offer.
The exchange in looks he had with Natalie character right after the board dropped off the call was clearly also an indication of dissatisfaction from both of them.
For those unaware, OP is referring to Sony patent US8246454B2 which describes a system in which people can skip ads by e.g. shouting out the brand name of the ad.
I have always felt uneasy about that too. I think it’s because the next (and final) panel looks exactly like the first. It’s the implication that you’ll have to do something so over the top as getting up, raising your arms, and shouting a brand name, then resuming what you were doing as it that were completely normal.
You have to show exuberance when demonstrating your brand loyalty, otherwise you’re not loyal enough to pass the ad. You’ll need to watch the entire reeducation, I mean ad, in that case.
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