I am sure you will have experienced kitchen theatre. Someone stands at the bench, nose lifted, sniffing the air like a search-and-rescue dog. Something is wrong. And yet the toaster keeps toasting, because nobody wanted to pull the lever early.
That’s the trap. You can smell the smoke and still serve the toast.
The fix costs nothing but discipline: the instant you smell it, look. Instead, most people reach for the butter — a generous spread, edge to edge, because a golden coat hides a multitude of sins. That’s production dressed up as thinking. You haven’t fixed the toast, you’ve just made it harder to see that you didn’t.
Then you cut it. Black straight through. And you eat it anyway, telling yourself: next time.
The truth? If you’d trusted the first smell, you’d already have known.
@LJ49602786@MichaelWhiting He’ll get dropped sooner or later, next week if not this. There’s another much taller player I wish they’d make a call on, but likely won’t
@claudeai I’m sure you’re working through difficult things. But while doing so, I signed up to GPT Pro plan this week for 5.6 Sol - after being Anthropic first, GPT backup $20 plan for ~2 years.
@omarsar0 They think everyone is a startup in SV who can pivot on a dime. The trouble is they’re alienating a segment of enterprise customers that are pretty important to their business