A Bone Dog

In case you're wondering: no, the new models aren't really that much smarter.

Here's my experience. The company I work for is run by one of those true believers in AI. We are all obligated to have AI analyze all our work, and the company pays for the latest and bestest super-premium version of Claude to do so. It's a hilariously stupid expenditure that cannot possibly be sustainable, but when the CEO rubs elbows with everyone at Anthropic and OpenAI, well, I guess we've got to be on the "cutting edge" of this garbage.

I have watched Claude analyze a bash script and have almost exactly this sort of stupidly long back-and-forth "debate" with itself about a trivial matter of syntax (which a simpler static analysis tool could validate in a fraction of a second). In the end, it concluded that the script was actually MathML, and then it spat out a screen and a half of malformed and meaningless MathML syntax in reply. This happened a month ago, not years ago.

Yeah it’s 12% better at the, very specific task they advertised in their latest earnings call and/or press release

Everything else it’s still shit

And even for that specific thing

a neophallus can get erect with an implant (this will either be a bendable rod or a device that inflates with saline at the press of a button, usually in the testicles)

both can feel sexual pleasure and experience orgasm

most neovaginas will be able to tolerate larger insertions with enough dilating/training

the nerves in neophalluses take a while to regrow but it is incredibly rare to experience no sexual nerve growth

both can look and feel "normal" if that's what you want, just take good care of your scars and look at your surgeons' results portfolio (and don't be afraid to be picky! its your genitals, you get to decide!)

in fact it's possible for many people to stealth and for their sexual partners to never know. even for phallo, some people with natal penises have erectile implants too, ED is common. neocaginas are often indistinguishable from natal vaginas

many surgeons are starting to offer preservation options for patients who want a more mixed look/don't want to lose what they have

you can have nothing and retain sexual function, even! it's called nerve-preserving nullification. similarly to other bottom surgeries, they use the most sensitive tissue (glans/clit) to create a subdermal pseudoclitoris

yes you can pee like normal. urethral reroute leaves a small hole at the perineum (taint)

all the advice about scars from OP applies here too!! take care of yourself well and it can heal well

Well

People who don’t deserve a skeletal system but like

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely