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We're being gaslit. Claude 4.5 Sonnet could write complete patches at launch. Now the context window is so destroyed it can't finish most prompts without truncating. Every major model follows the same pattern: amazing launch, then silent degradation over weeks. OpenAI admitted to changing GPT-4 without disclosure. Anthropic won't even acknowledge it.

They announce every 2% improvement but never mention when they swap in cheaper inference or add output limits. This isn't confirmation bias when the model literally cannot complete tasks it did a month ago. Are we just supposed to accept that the product we're paying for gets worse while the marketing gets louder? How is this not a bait and switch? Either give us API version pinning for the actual model weights or admit you're optimizing for profit over capability.

Github Copilot is almost unusable with all the bugs being added alongside the features. Poor UX decisions like clicking in a code block jumping the scroll or forcing a completion to wait for a animation even after the entire response is returned.

The code merge feature will get stuck to a point where the entirety of VS Code must be restarted. If it works and doesn't just randomly remove massive chunks of code or endlessly repeat itself in the file.

Plus the recent news about criticals being introduced at the OS level and ongoing introduction of user hostile UX like forcing cloud accounts instead of local only setups.

What's up with Microsoft? Is it the leadership? What needs to change to get back to quality?

Obligatory Photosensitive Seizure Warning -- It's on the app too.

https://brainentrain.web.app/

As a weekend project I built an app that uses color therapy, stereoscopic flickering, and binaural beats to hopefully entrain the brain to a desired frequency.

Currently I am oscillating the carrier wave within a harmonic range and from this updating the color frequency, pulse frequency, amplitude oscillation, and binaural frequencies.

Does HN have any ideas to take this to another level?

I am inspired by the MIT research here https://news.mit.edu/2022/small-studies-40hz-sensory-stimulation-confirm-safety-suggest-alzheimers-benefits-1213