Huh. I find myself preferring aspects of TEXT-DAVINCI-001 in just about every example prompt.
It’s so to-the-point. No hype. No overstepping. Sure, it lacks many details that later models add. But those added details are only sometimes helpful. Most of the time, they detract.
Makes me wonder what folks would say if you re-released TEXT-DAVINCI-001 as “GPT5-BREVITY”
I bet you’d get split opinions on these types of not so hard / creative prompts.
> I would not have expected frontier models to be caught on something like this but I tried it and they absolutely do.
This got me curious. Tried on Gemini 2.5 Pro out of curiosity. It gets it right, but it did think about it, and then even explain itself a lot in its official text response.
Thinking:
Here's my thought process for solving this classic riddle:
Identify the key players: The problem mentions Alice, her brothers, and her sisters.
Establish Alice's family structure:
Alice is a girl.
She has 3 brothers.
She has 6 sisters.
Determine the total number of children in the family:
Girls: Alice (1) + her sisters (6) = 7 girls
Boys: Alice's brothers (3) = 3 boys
Total children: 7 girls + 3 boys = 10 children
Focus on the question: "How many sisters does her brother have?"
Shift perspective: Now, consider one of Alice's brothers (let's call him Bob, although his name doesn't matter).
Analyze Bob's siblings: Bob is one of the children in the family. The family consists of 7 girls and 3 boys.
Count Bob's sisters: From Bob's perspective, all the girls in the family are his sisters.
How many girls are in the family? We already determined there are 7 girls (Alice + her 6 sisters).
Count Bob's brothers: From Bob's perspective, the other boys in the family are his brothers.
How many boys are in the family? 3.
How many other boys are there besides Bob? 3 total boys - 1 (Bob himself) = 2 brothers. (This isn't asked, but it helps confirm the perspective shift).
Answer the specific question: The question asks how many sisters Bob (Alice's brother) has. We found there are 7 girls in the family. All 7 girls are his sisters.
Final Check: Does the answer make sense? Yes. All the children in a family share the same set of siblings, just categorized differently based on their own gender. All the boys have the same number of sisters, and all the girls have the same number of sisters.
Alice has 6 sisters (the other 6 girls).
Any brother has 7 sisters (Alice + the other 6 girls).
Final message:
Here's how to break down the problem:
1. Identify the total number of girls in the family: Alice (1) + her sisters (6) = 7 girls.
2. Identify the total number of boys in the family: Alice has 3 brothers.
3. Consider one of Alice's brothers: Any one of her brothers is part of the same family.
4. Count his sisters: From the brother's perspective, all the girls in the family are his sisters.
So, her brother has 7 sisters.
What about the site led to the assumption that the time limit is related to discipline and social media overuse? The tag-line is "Because social media is better when we're all online together" not "because social media is hard to stay off of and we need boundaries forced on us."
You're making a great point, and one I think most people agree with, but I'm not sure it's relevant. At least, based on what I see of the website in its "offline" status.
Well I clicked one too many times. Came across a funeral procession with 0 views. Couldn't see any faces or identifying information, thankfully. But sad nonetheless.
Kagi’s argument is simple: Google should give public access to their Search Index so that any company can take advantage of the core machine directly, under some terms of agreement. Like an API.
The really funny thing about the "lies about birthday present" one is that the wife asks the AI to make a Woodworking Memory Video, and while they're watching it, it looks like a beach vacation photo is included in the mix.
For a second I forgot where I was, and thought she'd be found out, then remembered it's an ad, and everyone is impressed.
Maybe the image is actually related to the woodworking? But I couldn't help but think, "that's about right - a random, ill-fitting photo"
An estimated 40% of global websites use Wordpress in some way. It's hard to come up with a more generally applicable set of skills than "Wordpress" at least based on total users worldwide (I'm not here to defend WP, I've never liked it)
That said, I don't think the author's experience with Wordpress has poor transportability into other niches anyway.
If this is the actual error message, it's written very poorly. Sounds like it was written by someone frustrated with the fact that they had to write it at all, and made it up on the spot.
This is a little annoying. He vetoes the bill, agrees with the intention, paints the "solution" as improper, suggests there is some other solution that is better, doesn't entirely describe that solution with any detail, and encourages future legislation that is "more right."
I'm exhausted already.
I can't think of a less efficient way to go about this.
A more accurate and even more confusing statement would be “Wordpress is not Wordpress” which is a reality that I’ve had to explain to clients (in a former life) countless times.
“But when I go to Wordpress.com…”
SORRY, forget everything you saw there, that’s not Wordpress. Same logo? Yes. Branding? Yes. Company? Yes. But it’s not Wordpress.
This one setting that WP Engine disables is a shame, but it’s nothing compared to the confusion that Automattic has brought upon themselves
As someone with an app built on firebase, yes. As the author rightly points out, it's very easy to misconfigure, but basic security practices like these are highlighted in bright, bold warning text in the Firebase docs.
Security rules are meant to be taken seriously, and it's your only line of defense.
Agreed. There should be a warning to those that will be left behind soon, instructing them not to upgrade if they don’t plan on updating, or can’t update iOS.
I like this! As an iOS developer rocking an iPhone 11, I do find some comfort in knowing that a performant experience on my device suggests it will be a performant experience on others’
Not a new trend. Many places I’ve worked at (whose business models center around iOS apps) routinely plan to drop old iOS versions, yearly, as the new ones come out.
It gets increasingly more expensive to support older and older iOS versions. These “new features” you’re talking about wrapping in if statements aren’t here and there. Many upgrades are pervasive, and would eventually make every file a branching mess.
Now, you could argue that that should still be the chosen route. I can empathize with that. I like software that just keeps working forever.