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"OpenAI’s top executives are finalizing plans for a major strategy shift to refocus the company around coding and business users" - WSJ Coding is where the mon
by password54321 8mo ago
"OpenAI’s top executives are finalizing plans for a major strategy shift to refocus the company around coding and business users" - WSJ
Coding is where the money is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432791#46434072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432791#46434072
- MyFirstSass 8mo ago[flagged]
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- bibimsz 8mo agoSoftware engineers have spent the last 40 years automating away other people's jobs. The discomfort only seems to start when the automation points inward.
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- al_borland 8mo agoI want to make people’s jobs easier and more interesting, I never want to make them redundant. This did happen once. 3 people were laid off, I think directly based on things I said to drive the completion of some automation. That was the last time I ever measured something in man-hours to make a point. I’ll never do it again. That was over 12 years ago.
- skydhash 8mo agoHaven't mechanical engineers done the same thing (steam engines, trains,...)? The whole applied science is about using knowledge to remove tediousness (and now adding it back). A lot of jobs have been removed.
- bibimsz 8mo agomodel T factor workers are anti worker
- sensanaty 8mo agoHave they? I keep seeing this little snippet of wisdom being thrown about everywhere in these AI discussions as a gotcha, but to me it seems like moving jobs into dirt cheap 3rd world countries with slave labor is the biggest culprit for job loss than any kind of automation from software. If anything software engineers have spawned in uncountable numbers of jobs that never would've existed before, is what my intuition tells me.
- paxys 8mo agoHow are they going to claw back the market from Anthropic though?
- lossyalgo 8mo agoImagine all the money they can save on Sora which surely cost them way more than regular LLM usage, that they can now invest into suave Superbowl ads trash-talking Claude. I also wonder if they got the $1B from Disney? Was that even a paid for deal? Or just another "announced" deal? Every article I found doesn't mention anyone signing any paperwork - which seems to be typical of AI journalism these days. Every AI deal is supposedly inked but if you dig deeper, all you find are adjectives like proclaimed, announced, agreed upon.
- GenerWork 8mo agoI believe that the $1b is apparently not coming anymore because it was basically dependent upon Sora being an actual product that actual people can use, which isn't the case anymore.
- janalsncm 8mo agoStep 1: make a coding product which is better on cost/quality/speed. Probably need to choose two, so redirecting compute from dumb ai videos to coding makes sense. Step 2: win back public trust by firing Sam Altman or dropping defense contracts or something else I can’t think of.
- yoyohello13 8mo agoStep 3: use politicians to jam Anthropic up in legal battles.
- SecretDreams 8mo agoThis is actually step 1
- drdeafenshmirtz 8mo ago
- 34ahgaf 8mo agoIt is the last narrative that some of Wall Street believes and has enough mediocre or senile coders to promote it. That narrative will implode like Sora later this year.
- SecretDreams 8mo agoTo be fair, LLMs are exceptional at coding and they very well could displace some jobs. But you'll always need people at the helm who know what they're doing too.
- drdeafenshmirtz 8mo agoAlso that developers make for good early adopters for tech
- SecretDreams 8mo agoThis is very true and an underrated comment.
- k3k3 8mo ago[dead]
- bigstrat2003 8mo ago> To be fair, LLMs are exceptional at coding No they aren't. Any decently skilled human blows them out of the water. They can do better than an untrained human, but that's not much of an achievement.
- volkercraig 8mo agoThe thing is, LLM's produce better quality one-shots than any of the products that get returned from overseas ultra-budget contractors in India or SEA. I don't know what that means for Western devs, but I can tell you that the fortune 500 I work for is dialing back on contracting and outsourcing because domestic teams can do higher-quality work faster.
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- flashman 8mo agoNot enough money though. Not hundreds of billions of dollars.