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Re: GPT-5

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Post by aliljet » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

It's very unclear if OpenAI has been casually leaking things to create buzz, but a few days ago there was a pretty stunning pelican on a bike attempt: https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1mettre/gpt5_is_alr...

In practice, it's very clear to me that the most important value in writing software with an LLM isn't it's ability to one-shot hard problems, but rather it's ability to effectively manage complex context. There are no good evals for this kind of problem, but that's what I'm keenly interested in understanding. Show me GPT-5 can move through 10 steps in a list of tasks without completely losing the objective by the end.

Re: GPT-5

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Post by bangaladore » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #12

> comments turned off yikes - the poor executive leadership’s fragile egos cannot take the criticism.

Have you seen YouTube comments on videos like this? It's all-crypto scams, bots responding to other bots, and occasional racism.

Re: GPT-5

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Post by stri8ed » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 4:57 PM UTC

aliljet wrote: post #21

It's very unclear if OpenAI has been casually leaking things to create buzz, but a few days ago there was a pretty stunning pelican on a bike attempt: https://old.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1mettre/gpt5_is_alr... In practice, it's very clear to me that the most important value in writing software with an LLM isn't it's ability to one-shot hard problems, but rather it's ability to effectively manage complex context.…

That problem along with its many solutions are surely littered throughout the training data. Not to mention, it would be trivial to overfit on that problem. I don't know why people still reference that.

Re: GPT-5

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Post by code_for_monkey » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 4:57 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #4

I hope that this live stream will tell you that this will be the definitive reason why web developers, JavaScript / TypeScript developers are going to be made completely obsolete at worse and at best, their jobs will be reduced at all levels. The best part is, this is not even the real definition of "AGI" yet (whatever that means at this point). More like 10% of the capability that was promised and already the flow o…

damn did a front end engineer hook up with your wife? What did I do to you?

Re: GPT-5

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Post by sundarurfriend » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 4:58 PM UTC

Since the stream has been on some starting screen for several minutes, I went to check whether there are watch-along streams on Twitch for this - there are a few, and for some reason every one of them is in Spanish. I know Spanish-language streams are a big thing, but it's curious that there's three Spanish GPT-5 watchalong streams (two with 50-ish viewers and one with 2.5k) and none in English.

edit: YouTube has a few English "watch party" streams, although there too, the Spanish ones have many times more viewers.

Re: GPT-5

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Post by wiradikusuma » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 5:00 PM UTC

A bit unrelated: The "countdown animation", just like Google I/O's, how do people make those? The countdown is probably dynamically generated, as they don't know when the event will actually start? Is there like a JavaScript library, or CapCut template, or something?

Especially Google IO, each year is different, it seems purpose built?