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> Take away the agent, and Bob is still a first-year student who hasn't started yet. The year happened around him but not inside him. He shipped a product, but

• stavros 6mo ago
  Do you think that'll take a generation to happen?
  • rafterydj 6mo ago
    ChatGPT 3.5 came out coming on 4 years ago now. I don't think a human generation (~20-30 years) needs to be the benchmark here, but new juniors in the industry for a handful of years can be said to be a whole "generation". That how I was reading OP.
• Paradigma11 6mo ago
  What will happen is pretty obvious. Those companies will either be classified as too important to fail and get government support or go bankrupt and will be bought for pennies on the dollar. For the customers nothing much will change since tokens are getting cheaper every year and the business is already pretty profitable. Progress will slow down massively till local open weight models catch up to pre-crash SotA and go on from there.
  • pards 6mo ago
    > the business is already pretty profitable As of March 2026, OpenAI generates annual revenue exceeding $12 billion. However, the costs of running ChatGPT are around $17 billion a year. Source: https://searchlab.nl/en/statistics/chatgpt-statistics-2026 https://searchlab.nl/en/statistics/chatgpt-statistics-2026
    • ipaddr 6mo ago
      Big improvement I remember when they were spending billions and getting no profit.