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> breathing life into these things that 3 years ago were laughable science fiction LLMs were not fiction three years ago. Bidirectional text encoders are over
by bigyabai 11mo ago
> breathing life into these things that 3 years ago were laughable science fiction
LLMs were not fiction three years ago. Bidirectional text encoders are over a decade old.
- magnitudes 11mo agoCoding agents is what I’m talking about, they are also an old idea, everything is an old idea, what is new and a major step change is the realized capability of them in December 2025.
- bigyabai 11mo agoYou are the first person I've ever heard call Dec 2025 a "major step change" moment in AI. And I've been following this space since BERT.
- magnitudes 11mo agoNo, I’m saying AS OF Dec 2025. 2025 itself being a step change in that coding agent adoption has undergone a step change as a result of model quality and agent interface being good enough.
- bigyabai 11mo agoUnderstood, but I still think you're exaggerating. Tool use is a 2024 thing, and progress on model quality this year has been downright vomit-inducing (looking at you, OpenAI...)
- magnitudes 11mo agoWhat would you have expected model quality to have been this year, it’s greatly exceeded my expectations, I’m genuinely confused by this perspective…considering where we were a very very short time ago