Ankan Saha

🇿🇦 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says that the country will not abandon its DEI policies, known as “Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).” “Those who say BEE and affirmative action must stop are just dreaming,” he said. South Africa has strict laws that mandate race-based hiring practices. A new law called the Employment Equity Amendment Act sets hiring targets for 2025–2030 across 18 economic sectors. Some workforce targets aim for 90–96% of employees to come from designated groups, which include Black people, women, and people with disabilities (minimum 3%). That means that if a company has more than 5% white men, it could face penalties of up to 10% of its income.

Wtf, Grok 4.20 is extremely high effort. Here's an example: One thing I love about Gemini is that if it recognizes concepts or terms, it will name them. "Hey it sounds like you're talking about Baumol's Cost Disease" without any tinkering with the system prompt. Claude and ChatGPT are conceited about this kinda thing. You basically have to BEG Claude not to treat you like a toddler or use a bunch of style guides. ChatGPT is the same. Grok is just like "oh yeah, here's the named concept, I went ahead and looked up the math, and did a bunch of number crunching, and here's the conclusion" Grok 4.20 default feels a lot like using ChatGPT Pro. No, they didn't pay me to say this. I still have my criticisms of Grok, but holy shit, this is what UX is supposed to be like. xAI fuckin cooked.