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I've never seen a company publishing consistently groundbreaking features at such a speed like this one. I really wonder how their teams work. It's unprecedente

by siva7 2y ago

I've never seen a company publishing consistently groundbreaking features at such a speed like this one. I really wonder how their teams work. It's unprecedented at what i've seen in 15 years software

pheeney 2y ago
I wonder how much they use their own products internally to speed up development and decisions.
- amlib 2y ago
  And I wonder how much they use them externally to influence the online conversations about their own products/company.
- abound 2y ago
  They definitely use their own products internally, perhaps to a fault: While chatting with OpenAI recruiters, I received calendar events with nonsensical DALLE-generated calendar images, and "interview prep" guides that were clearly written by an older GPT model.
- jonchurch_ 2y ago
  They have roles on their “Leverage Engineering” team which appears to be exactly this https://openai.com/careers/full-stack-software-engineer-leverage-engineering/ https://openai.com/careers/full-stack-software-engineer-leve...
roboboffin 2y ago
Is it that most models are based on the transformer architecture ? And so performance improvements can then we used throughout their different products ?
IdiocyInAction 2y ago
AFAIK a lot of these ideas are not new (the JSON thing was done with OS models before) and OpenAI is possibly the hottest startup with the most funding this decade (maybe even past two decades?), so I think this is actually all within expectations.
- sk11001 2y ago
  They're exceptional at executing and delivering, you don't get that just through having more funding.
  - jiggawatts 2y ago
    How are they exceptional? Their web UI was a glitchy mess for over a year. Rollouts of just data is staggered and often delayed. They still can’t adhere to a JSON schema accurately, even though others have figured this out ages ago. There are global outages regularly. Etc… I’m impressed by some aspects of their rapid growth, but these are financial achievements (credit due Sam) more than technical ones.
    - closewith 2y ago
      I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue. 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
    - hobofan 2y ago
      Not sure why you are being downvoted. You are generally right. Most of their new product rollouts were acoompanied with huge production instabilities for paying customers. Only in the most recent ones did they manage that better. > They still can’t adhere to a JSON schema accurately Strict mode for structured output fixes at least this though.
  - testfrequency 2y ago
    It’s literally just a bunch of ex-stripe employees and data scientists..
nextworddev 2y ago
GPT 5 is writing their code
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by siva7 2y ago

pheeney 2y ago

I wonder how much they use their own products internally to speed up development and decisions.

amlib 2y ago
And I wonder how much they use them externally to influence the online conversations about their own products/company.
abound 2y ago
They definitely use their own products internally, perhaps to a fault: While chatting with OpenAI recruiters, I received calendar events with nonsensical DALLE-generated calendar images, and "interview prep" guides that were clearly written by an older GPT model.
jonchurch_ 2y ago
They have roles on their “Leverage Engineering” team which appears to be exactly this https://openai.com/careers/full-stack-software-engineer-leverage-engineering/ https://openai.com/careers/full-stack-software-engineer-leve...

roboboffin 2y ago

Is it that most models are based on the transformer architecture ? And so performance improvements can then we used throughout their different products ?

IdiocyInAction 2y ago

AFAIK a lot of these ideas are not new (the JSON thing was done with OS models before) and OpenAI is possibly the hottest startup with the most funding this decade (maybe even past two decades?), so I think this is actually all within expectations.

sk11001 2y ago
They're exceptional at executing and delivering, you don't get that just through having more funding.
- jiggawatts 2y ago
  How are they exceptional? Their web UI was a glitchy mess for over a year. Rollouts of just data is staggered and often delayed. They still can’t adhere to a JSON schema accurately, even though others have figured this out ages ago. There are global outages regularly. Etc… I’m impressed by some aspects of their rapid growth, but these are financial achievements (credit due Sam) more than technical ones.
  - closewith 2y ago
    I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue. 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
  - hobofan 2y ago
    Not sure why you are being downvoted. You are generally right. Most of their new product rollouts were acoompanied with huge production instabilities for paying customers. Only in the most recent ones did they manage that better. > They still can’t adhere to a JSON schema accurately Strict mode for structured output fixes at least this though.
- testfrequency 2y ago
  It’s literally just a bunch of ex-stripe employees and data scientists..

nextworddev 2y ago

GPT 5 is writing their code

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