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Comment by chubot

2 days ago

Side note: I used this query to test LLM recall: Do jeff dean and russ cox know each other?

Interesting results:

1. Gemini pointed me back at MY OWN comment, above, an hour after I wrote it. So Google is crawling the web FAST. It also pointed to: https://learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep78-russ-cox

This matches my recent experience -- Gemini is enhanced for many use cases by superior recall

2. Claude also knows this, pointing to pages like: https://usesthis.com/interviews/jeff.dean/ - https://goodlisten.co/clip/the-unlikely-friendship-that-shap... (never seen this)

3. ChatGPT did the worst. It said

... they have likely crossed paths professionally given their roles at Google and other tech circles. ...

While I can't confirm if they know each other personally or have worked directly together on projects, they both would have had substantial overlap in their careers at Google.

(edit: I should add I pay for Claude but not Gemini or ChatGPT; this was not a very scientific test)

Not just Google. I had ChatGPT regurgitate my HN comment (without linking to it) about 15 minutes after posting it. That was a year ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649774

  • > Gemini pointed me back at MY OWN comment, above, an hour after I wrote it. So Google is crawling the web FAST. It also pointed to: https://learning.acm.org/bytecast/ep78-russ-cox ... I had ChatGPT regurgitate my HN comment (without linking to it) about 15 minutes after posting it.

    Sounds like HN is the kind of place for effective & effortless "Answer Engine Optimization".