> My meaning, rather, is that there's people whose full time job is to build these things who seem to have forgotten what everyone in the field knew 3 years ago

> My meaning, rather, is that there's people whose full time job is to build these things who seem to have forgotten what everyone in the field knew 3 years ago. Well, sometimes I wonder if this is actually true. I have an unprovable feeling that (1) some people do things that work better but they keep it to themselves, (2) some companies could do better wrt the optimization of the number of tokens getting it or out but they deliberately chose not to.