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Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by ryanar »

tabs_or_spaces wrote: post #504

I'm happy for the guy, but am I jealous as well? Well yes, and that's perfectly human. We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities. This is reported by many folks We also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person. We don't know how much of the github stars are bought. We don't know how many twitter followings/tweets are bought. The…

Pete didn’t just vibe code, he took his many years of engineering experience and applied it to build a ton of products, pushing the boundaries of todays models and harnesses.

I am saddened that the top post is about jealousy, do so many people feel this way? Jealousy should be something that when we feel we reflect on privately and work on because it is an emotion that leads to people writing criticism like tbis that is biased due to their emotional state.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by 1000xcat »

erikbye wrote: post #537
tabs_or_spaces wrote: post #504

I'm happy for the guy, but am I jealous as well? Well yes, and that's perfectly human. We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities. This is reported by many folks We also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person. We don't know how much of the github stars are bought. We don't know how many twitter followings/tweets are bought. The…

It's funny to me how still so many don't realize you don't get hired for the best positions for being a 10x programmer who excels at hackerrank, you get hired for your proven ability to deliver useful products. Creativity, drive, vision, whatever. Code is a means to an end. If you're the type of programmer who thinks of yourself as just a programmer, and take pride in your secure code, ability to optimize functions a…

It took me a while to realise that most people don't care how it's done or how it works they just want something useful and working (even if it's vibe coded or duct taped)

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by blueblazin »

tabs_or_spaces wrote: post #504

I'm happy for the guy, but am I jealous as well? Well yes, and that's perfectly human. We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities. This is reported by many folks We also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person. We don't know how much of the github stars are bought. We don't know how many twitter followings/tweets are bought. The…

As I understand Peter had already early retired because of a successful startup exit and presumably has more money than he knows what to do with. Does that help make you feel less jealous on him getting a job at oai?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by catmanjan »

coffeebeqn wrote: post #506
catmanjan wrote: post #497

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AI companies must hate this right? Because they're selling tokens at a loss?

Bold of you to assume profitability is one of their KPIs

My understanding was that if everyone paid and used AI the companies would go into liquidation on energy bills etc

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by cookiengineer »

eecc wrote: post #692
ho_schi wrote: post #655

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I’m rather sure *Airbus* will prefer a programmer which reads and writes reliable code. The programmer which delivers useful products is probably hired by Microsoft? Or worse, Boeing. Or Toyota. Some NTSB people or Michael Barr are happy to tell you details about the number of dead people they created. Restart braking to brake because our code failed. Or. One single sensor delivers wrong data. Let us put the trim dow…

OT: it's not the first time I see this grammatical mistake: "didn’t trained". Is it some accepted regional variation?

I think that happens when as a German you're used to using the Plusquamperfekt which is a somewhat unique tense that's allowed to be used in all past tenses.

It allows you to not having to define the point in time and neither the frame of the timespan's points in time.

Some languages allow to use that type of tense and it's somewhat a language gap I suppose. I have no idea what other languages or proto languages allow that tense though, but I've seen some Slavic and maybe Finnish(?) natives use that tense in English, too.

Maybe someone more elaborate in these matters has better examples?

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plusquamperfekt

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by alberto467 »

tabs_or_spaces wrote: post #504

I'm happy for the guy, but am I jealous as well? Well yes, and that's perfectly human. We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities. This is reported by many folks We also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person. We don't know how much of the github stars are bought. We don't know how many twitter followings/tweets are bought. The…

Well, once you learn that hard work does not pay, it’s really your own fault if you keep believing in it.

What matters is the result, not how hard you worked at it. Schools and universities have been teaching this for a long time, that what matters is just a grade, the result.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by catmanjan »

the_duke wrote: post #721
catmanjan wrote: post #497

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AI companies must hate this right? Because they're selling tokens at a loss?

From all indications the big players have healthy margins on inference. Research and training are the cost sinks.

Is that just because people pay subscriptions and never use their tokens? Same model as ISPs

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by chaboud »

Cool. Good for him. I've been building agentic and observational systems and have been working to make them safe and layered in defense. And, well, I probably should have just said "fuck it" and put a disclaimer sticker on the front to let it fly.

Yeah, these systems are going to get absolutely rocked by exploits. The scale of damage is going to be comical, and, well, that's where we are right now.

Go get 'em, tiger. It's a brave new world. But, as with my 10 year old, I need to make sure the credit cards aren't readily available. He'd just buy $1k of robux. Who knows what sort of havoc uncorked agentic systems could bring?

One of my systems accidentally observed some AWS keys last night. Yeah. I rotated them, just in case.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by motoboi »

rlt wrote: post #458
motoboi wrote: post #409

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This is basically acquihire. Peter seems really a genius and they better poach him before Anthropic do.

Is he? My impression of Clawdbot was it was a good idea but not particularly technically impressive or even well-written. I had all kinds of issues setting it up.

It’s a wonderful idea. Vibe coded, but not his first rodeo.

Exited on his first company on 110M, then some years of the whole huasca and forest thing, then started creating projects.

Clawdbot (later openclaw) was his 44th try.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by m000 »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #606
wasmainiac wrote: post #589

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> It's telling me that I should rather focus on getting viral/lucky This is the real dangers of social media and other platforms. I know teachers in the school system, way too many kids want to grow up to be influencers and YouTubers, and try to act like them too. At the risk of sounding like an old man yelling at the sky, this is not good for society. Key resources and infrastructure in our society is not built on v…

> way too many kids want to grow up to be ... YouTubers What's wrong with wanting to be a YouTuber? At this point, it's really a very small TV channel. And YouTube essentially allows for an infinite number of these very small TV channels, unlike traditional TV. > way too many kids want to grow up to be influencers You can replace "influencers" with "wanting to be popular". That is as old as time. To me, if you look c…

> To me, if you look closely at (social media) influencers, they are nothing more than people who were popular in high school and managed to extend it for a few years with the use of social media.

That's a very superficial similarity. It's one thing for a kid wishing to be popular in their extended social circle, and a very different thing a young adult being convinced that they can "grind" their way to influencer fame and money.

The young adult may never have heard of or considered the extreme survivorship bias in the stories of successful influencers.

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