Same thought I had, I realized I was zero percent surprised reading the claims made, it feels like a perfect representation of the personality Sam Altman shows the world.
I would see less fake news, fake profiles and fake content in general. I would be happier, even if I would miss some of it.
It’s kind of sad how much we accept the idea of ”trust absolutely nothing” nowadays, even movie trailers for fictional movies are made to drive clicks for ads… obviously there has always been a large trust issue online, but with gen ai we entered a new era of it.
”Look the type says the data has this shape”, but it doesn’t. This has led to so many cases of ”no data validation” in my experience, how people solve that is usually then with zod, and now you have added a massive runtime dependency instead of local validation.
I've seen TS hurt more than help in many cases, because people think types define the world, and then they get malformed JSON (or just a new structure) and their world crumbles.
Yes, it's a skill issue, but oh dear the amount of developers who have that issue.
Which is why we’re putting our entire digital identification infrastructure in the hands of Google and Apple. EU technological sovereignty is a kafkaesque affair, and that’s putting it mildly.
I think developers = studio in this case, management included. It’s the same issue as Hollywood really, making content for a loud minority will not generate revenue.
Compare how Marvel Rival performs to any Marvel Hollywood content after Endgame.
Not at all the take I got, it was a specific, very corporate, section about ”say nothing bad about LLMs” that was later removed due to backlash that caused the author to lose trust.
They even go into specifics regarding the LLM policy and that it’s in many parts sound.
When I read the mentioned section I was very baffled, it’s like if Jensen of NVIDIA had made an appearance and wanted to sell GPUs.
They can’t keep their current models working on subscriptions[1], so we’ll see if this is marketing or not in the future.
It’s smart to tease it no matter what, ”insert classic first hit is free drug reference”.
This is quite terrifying to me, because I have a feeling I will soon come to the same conclusion.
I’m starting to see some really glaring omissions in code I’m responsible for (using Opus) that at first (and second) look seemed fine, but really isn’t.
I’ve worked at many companies where this idea of velocity was claimed to matter, and it never did. The only thing it mattered for was to make it look like middle managers were worth anything, but the success was always in the foundational idea/concept.
We experienced this with Anthropic, not the same blast radius obviously, but out of nowhere account was terminated. No support available.
It was via someone’s 30+ year old classmate via LinkedIn the account got reinstated.
As a counterpoint to the right to the repair there should be a right to recover.
It’s not one single skill being lost, it’s about many and how they interact.
I just did a big refactor with opus, it went ok, some bugs. The normal stuff. One of the bugs was in a part of the code no longer needed, which Opus had just filled with comments more or less.
Asking it fix the bug worked, but then I really looked at the code and realized just that, this is pointless now.
I’ve only been coding for 20+ years so I might be more susceptible than the author, but I’m quite terrified about losing skills in writing code, but also designing good structure, coherency and system overview. These are the things people claim you need more of with LLMs, but is what you outsource the most, even if you think you are describing it in detail.
We are all collectively growing the skill of complacency and laziness though, and those are not great ”skills” to have. And I’m just as guilty as anyone.
Reaper and Predator are both drones and there’s really no comparison to toy drones in terms of sheer destruction and capabilities in general, the comparison is actually quite apt imo.