I've been using Perplexity for small, fast queries almost exclusively for the last year or so. Their Sonar model is Llama running on top of a Cerebras chip, and searches the internet in an incredible speed. Its results are astonishingly good (for a Llama model), although in more niche areas it still makes mistakes, so in those areas I usually double-check its sources or do an extra ddg search myself.
Actually I've never used chat gpt, I went straight to Perplexity after having discovered it. Their free tier is extremely generous (not even requiring an account). Not affiliated.
OP currently doesn't look it will affect that, seems like Open AI touts it for agentic coding only, not as an alternative to chat gpt, although that will probably change.
There's also bflat [0]. Not an official Microsoft product, more of a passion project of a specific employee.
"C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling that produces small, selfcontained, and native executables out of the box." Really impressive. Self contained and small build system.
Just wanted to say I enjoyed your post very much. Thank you for writing it. I love D but unfortunately I haven't touched it for several years. I also have some experience writing parsers and implementing protocols.
Adding to the comments: Not an American, but like others here watched TNG every day after school, and TOS before that. Many other people my age did, for example my wife.
BTW, we have watched with our sons all of TNG and DS9 for the last 3 years, and our eldest is now deeply familiar with Star Trek as a result. Very few of his peers are familiar with it, though.
Actually I've never used chat gpt, I went straight to Perplexity after having discovered it. Their free tier is extremely generous (not even requiring an account). Not affiliated.
OP currently doesn't look it will affect that, seems like Open AI touts it for agentic coding only, not as an alternative to chat gpt, although that will probably change.