Not surprising.
Their solution to everything LLM has been to add intermediary LLMs to manage the one we interact with to add “guardrails” or point them to a calculator.
It shouldn’t be surprising that they utterly fail at basic tasks on their own.
Vancouver, Canada: People are of course worried about the US having returned to it trying to conquer and subjugate us again, and global warming casts an increasingly looming shadow. But the US utterly failed to split off Alberta, Quebec is showing no interest in it either and Carney is mostly doing a good job so there is still increasing hope.
Gas prices are still punitive in Vancouver, but that has been the case since we stood up for ourselves against having a pipeline to nowhere shoved up our ass, so we’re used to that now. We havent seen the crazy increase other places have other than in diesel because China is buying it all to keep their prices down.
Food prices are only bad if you shop at the big supermarkets. If you shop at farmers markets or small locals, prices have stayed relatively steady.
Job wise market is looking very strong. A few years back, most of the posts I saw were international or fraud reposts, but more and more in the last 18 months have been local growth, with larger compensation as well for the most part.
They’ve been doing that for over a decade now.
Its not “early days”.
Early days for AI models was a decade ago.
As an example this weekend: Farmers market organic apples(Braeburn and Honeycrisp), single farm, guy who sold me the apples oversaw their picking this week. $3.50 / pound.
Superstore, US grown Galas, been in a box for 6 months, $3 / pound.
We’re around 60-70 / week for me and my partner four usual food, but that also includes some steak and pork once and a while.