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5mo ago
What increase in ARR did he create? Let's stop bullshitting and get down to numbers.
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5mo ago
Do not equate people with bullshit LLMs, please.
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5mo ago
> I don’t use openclaw myself anymore Firstly, who TF would use that crap in the first place at all ? Yeah, he did some crap he got paid for. So did the people who created the addictive algorithms for social and media or creators of th
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5mo ago
Peter shows shit. What did Peter meaningfully achieve? What additional revenue is he creating? ah yes - shit and more shit on all accounts as it seems.
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5mo ago
> You seem to have an axe to grind Unless you are vested in the highly unlikely commercial success of LLM companies, you should have one to grind too. I have been running my own business for quite some time, with quite some success. Howe
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5mo ago
Could be, would be, should be is not the discourse we should have about this tech. Not after Dario's and Sam's "authoritative" statements on what is definitely going to happen "in the next 6 months, 12 months"
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5mo ago
What product or feature did he build with it and how much ARR did it generate for OpenAI?
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5mo ago
> Initially, people were really afraid of trains, fearing they wouldn’t be able to breathe at those speeds That was one doctor raising that as an issue, which was dispelled very quickly. It was not a wide-spread belief at any one point.
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5mo ago
There is a reason why such discussions about CNC machines never happened. I wonder what it cculd be? Becausw their output is better than man-made atuff? Because they are reliable? Because their manufacturers generally don't lie?
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5mo ago
1. What product(s)? 2. What features? 3. How.much ARR increase per employee? If you can't answer these questions credibly, I'm afraid I'll have to treat your answer as LLM influencer propaganda.
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5mo ago
Very funny, this. Did we need forward deployed engineers to convince people that they absolutely need to use the trains in order to "not be left behind"? Or otherwise hype? Or was it sort of obvious and did not need to explained s
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5mo ago
> won’t concede until you can just ask Codex or Opus “find and fix all the bugs in this But this is just holding the Slop Companies to the standard they declared themselves! Just recently, the CEO of OpenAI babbled some nonsense on twitt
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5mo ago
A lot of words about nothing. Meanwhile we are still waiting for these statements to come true: https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3648851352018565 https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent
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5mo ago
> You don't need college to teach you how to learn text book items anymore and I think that is scary to some. a) This is about universities, not "college" b) The University teaches you critical thinking, not how to learn &
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5mo ago
Ha ha ha... actually in the last 20-30 years most people learnt programming in assembly no for the sake of building programs in assembly - it was tought so you can have a grasp of microprocessor architecture. Instructions, interrupts,regis
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5mo ago
Of course it's ethical - these guys have been persistent in creating a jungle-like environment for all of us. In such a situation, acting primarily for your own egoistic interests is indeed the most ethical choice you could make. I app
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5mo ago
On a purely technical level - cool. But I still cannot get over the impression that even in this case LLMs show us how they are mainly useful to grifters. I mean, 5 Bitcoins worth 400K USD. Why? What intrinsic value does Bitcoin deliver? It
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5mo ago
> Today we announced our Q3 FY26 earnings with record revenue of $15.8 billion, up 12 percent year over year, and double-digit top and bottom-line growth. The ELT and I could not be prouder of the growth you have all delivered for Cisco
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5mo ago
Lol, so much "productivity" bullshit from the LLM-crowd but hardly any new innovations or products. Something is off here.
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5mo ago
> all evidence points to AI bringing at least 10-20% more productivity. No, actually all evidence points exactly to a ~20% slowdown> https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o... The "evide
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5mo ago
Who said they were new? But the ability to induce them ON SCALE is what is new, brmought to you by the LLM Slop companies.
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5mo ago
> Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition What competition? To have competiton, you need to have a market. And to have a market, you need to have a well defined product or service. What these guys are offering is a toy, for which they desper
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5mo ago
What does the term "AI race" even mean, beyond wooing clueless VCs and soon retail investors ? It's not like the LLMs are some super-secret technology. Any economy willing to sink in copious amounts of money and resources can
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5mo ago
> I see a lot of media hype Right, a guy keeping endless stacks of paper with his ChatGPT-produced novelty "scientific" theories and wanting to "apply for pope" - definitely some "media hype" there.
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> but there are plenty of human sycophants as well That's besides the point. This is about how AI induces psychosis and mental problems on scale. Also let's stop this constant humans-vs-ai false dichotomy - it will never be the
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5mo ago
We did...but it was few here and there. The LLMs are making it massive and impacting people on a huge scale.
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5mo ago
Well you see to really, really sell it to the common folks, they need to convince you that ChatBots are the "Intelligence" . So they are coming up with all sorts of crap, like this one. The TV advertisements for Gemini and co. are
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“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT
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> and matches an observation I saw with early Claude Code > though the new models (GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.6) seem to suffer from this less > My takeaway was that > haven’t found Gemini to be For the love of all that's holy, fo
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5mo ago
Hey Google, take the cue from Microslops debacle with the "agentic" Windows : Nobody asked for this!
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