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by strange_quark 11mo ago
I’ve never seen such a huge delta between advertised capabilities and real world experience. I’ve had a lot of very similar experiences to yours with these models where I will literally try verbatim something shown in an ad and get absolute
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by strange_quark 11mo ago
This toggle _still_ doesn't turn off all the bs. Google now "helpfully" decides that you must want a summary of literally every file you open in Drive, which is extra annoying because the summary box causes the UI to move aro
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by strange_quark 1y ago
I think you’re misunderstanding me. This might be something somewhat useful, I don’t know, and I’m not judging it based on that. What I’m saying is that if you really believed we were 2, maybe 3 years tops from AGI or the singularity or wha
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by strange_quark 1y ago
Yet more evidence of the bubble burst being imminent. If any of these companies really had some almost-AGI system internally, they wouldn’t be spending any effort making f’ing Excel plugins. Or at the very least, they’d be writing their own
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by strange_quark 1y ago
This 1000x. I’ve sat through several vendor demos of BI tools that have a chatbot and seen my PM go all starry eyed that you can ask it “show me top x over the last week” and get a chart back. How an empty text box is easier to use than a U
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by strange_quark 1y ago
> That's the sum total of the product though, it's already complete and it does not need trillions of dollars of datacenter investment What sucks there’s probably some innovation left in figuring out how to make these monstrosi
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by strange_quark 1y ago
It's crazy how fast we went from big data and every exec needing some massive dataset with cooked up numbers to justify even the smallest decision, to this, where nothing matters except for ~vibes~. Does AI increase productivity? Does
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by strange_quark 1y ago
I've literally never seen this and I've been around for awhile. There's always people with some bespoke vim or emacs setup while everyone else is just using Jetbrains or VSCode or whatever, and nobody cares at all as long as
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by strange_quark 1y ago
I thought the the 3rd example of the AR building highlighting was cool. I used the same prompt and seems to work when you ask it for the most prominent building in a skyline, but fails really hard if you ask it for another building. I uploa
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by strange_quark 1y ago
Anthropic is the worst about this. Every product release they have is like "Here's 10 issues we found with this model, we tried to mitigate, but only got 80% of the way there. We think it's important to still release anyways,
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by strange_quark 1y ago
> When we felt we were getting close to flight, people were jumping off buildings in wing suits. And then, the Wright Bros. cracked the problem. Yeah they cracked the problem with a completely different technology. Letting LLMs do things
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by strange_quark 1y ago
It's insane how we're throwing out decades of security research because it's slightly annoying to have to write your own emails.
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by strange_quark 1y ago
The second someone has to deal with returning an item that an LLM hallucinated they needed is the second they cancel this service. The hassle of returning something vastly outweighs any perceived convenience of not having to buy toilet pape
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by strange_quark 1y ago
This seems like something that won't ever work because there's like 10 decisions that the computer has to make that it can't possibly know unless it's either a mind reader or has a crazy level of surveillance on your lif
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by strange_quark 1y ago
I agree that a lot of Apple stuff has gotten worse recently, both in terms of objective quality in the number of bugs, incomplete features that don't work properly when shipped, and in terms of the company trying to coerce even more co
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by strange_quark 1y ago
I'm not even making predictions on whether AGI is possible or not, but the valuations of these companies hinges on AI being able to replace a large portion of human labor. I think we are teetering on the edge of a huge bubble pop unles
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by strange_quark 1y ago
People were definitely saying bubble earlier this year, but I think the market could excuse the selloff by attributing it to DeepSeek and "Liberation Day"; the AI hype machine was still in overdrive. For some reason the market has
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by strange_quark 1y ago
Agree with this, the "find this thing in my spaghetti codebase" is far and away the best use of LLMs I've seen. Fill in the rest of this switch statement, populate this struct from this database call, etc. also work pretty we
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by strange_quark 1y ago
It's funny you seem to think this is a good comeback, but I think it actually proves the author's point. A farmer who cares about their crops probably wouldn't want their crops sold to a megacorp to make into ultra-processed
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by strange_quark 1y ago
I'm not sure that the dotcom bubble leaving behind the web means that AI (and by AI I mean LLMs) are going to be transformative in the same way the internet was. Just because it happened once doesn't necessarily mean it's goi
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by strange_quark 1y ago
I think the figure wasn't that data center capex exceeded consumer spending, but that data center capex contributed more to GDP growth than consumer spending did. Still really really bad and indicative of a bubble, but an important dif
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by strange_quark 1y ago
This just seems like goalpost shifting to make it sound like these models are more capable than they are. Oh, it didn't "hallucinate" (a term which I think sucks because it anthropomorphizes the model), it just "fabricat
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by strange_quark 1y ago
Pretty sure it’s the same model. The reason that claude code is “good” is because it can run tests, compile the code, run a linter, etc. If you actually pay attention to what it’s doing, at least in my experience, it constantly fucks up, bu
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by strange_quark 1y ago
What you're saying is totally correct about AI slop polluting the web, but the reason they don't want to talk about it is because the second they frame "AI" as slightly better search, it invites all sorts of unfavorable
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by strange_quark 1y ago
There’s about half a trillion reasons that it’s unfathomable to some.
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by strange_quark 1y ago
Ok so the argument is that all the model builders either suck at business or they are purposefully choosing to lose billions of dollars?
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by strange_quark 1y ago
Ok but isn’t 20 million subscribers out of what, 800 million or 1 billion monthly users or whatever they’re claiming, an absolutely abysmal conversion rate? Especially given that the industry and media have been proclaiming this as somewher
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by strange_quark 1y ago
> There are many technologies that have seemed inevitable and seen retreats under the lack of commensurate business return (the supersonic jetliner) I think this is a great analogy, not just to the current state of AI, but maybe even com
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by strange_quark 1y ago
No, IMO, the whole tech industry is cooked. AI is pitched as the next big thing (tm) that will delivery hyper-growth again, and when LLM-based AI doesn't live up to the insane claims being made, the bubble popping will take out players
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by strange_quark 3y ago
I completely agree with this. The timing of this AI hype cycle is very suspicious. Like almost as soon as crypto started to go bust with the collapse of FTX, all of the sudden, here's ChatGPT and a huge inflow of cash into AI startups.

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