[dead]
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
501–510 of 558 posts
Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#502Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most companies are real, it's just that a good fraction of the work is mostly unnecessary. Partially because of the overhead of doing business activities that is unneeded most of the time, partly because we don't know what work will be useful, and partly for silly social reasons
I keep coming back to the idea that all the upheaval combined with all the new tools at our disposal will empower and motivate people to start businesses that challenge the status quo. I've lived long enough to see that play out at scale, it is basically how we got Google. That might not sound encouraging, but Google was once a really inspiring company and one of the best places to work.
[dead]
Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#503Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok let's make math illegal and burn down the data centers I guess. Idk what to tell you, but we will adapt and new roles will be created. Just like every single tool and piece of tech that came before. LLM manager? Fine.
>Just like every single tool and piece of tech that came before. The thing about relying on the past to predict the future is that works ... until it doesn't. We've yet to see a technology with as diverse utility as LLMs. What happens when not just the tech sector starts downsizing, but the whole white collar workforce?
[dead]
Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#504Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference so far is that these LLMs are owned by corporations, and very aggressive American corporations at that. So now you are essentially reliant on them. Not saying that this is something new, but times they are a changin
Don't use your laptop. Or your phone. It's owned by a corporation. Do you hear yourself? If you don't want to rely on corporations go live in the woods.
The parent said American corporations. No one with any sense wants a dependency critical to their state or private company sitting under the direct control of America any more.
Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#505Earlier quoted context omitted.
Shareholders are not insiders. Public companies do secret projects all the time of which shareholders know absolutely nothing about and may never learn the details of them if they get cancelled.
Private market dynamics are not the same buddy.
Everyone owns them at this point and Google is outright public.
Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#506It's a very long post with a mix of technical (math) and philosophical sections. Here are the most striking points to reflect upon IMHO. > It seems to me that training beginning PhD students to do research [...] has just got harder, since one obvious way to help somebody get started is to give them a problem that looks as though it might be a relatively gentle one. If LLMs are at the point where they can solve “gentl…
> by solving hard problems you get an insight into the problem-solving process itself, at least in your area of expertise, in a way that you simply don’t if all you do is read other people’s solutions. One consequence of this is that people who have themselves solved difficult problems are likely to be significantly better at using solving problems with the help of AI, just as very good coders are better at vibe codi…
> I see this happening in the enterprise. People delegate work to some LLM; work isn't always bad, sometimes it's even acceptable. But it's not their work, and as a result, the author doesn't know or understand it better than anyone else! They don't own it, they can't explain it. They literally have no value whatsoever; they're a passthrough; they're invisible.
According to the blog post linked in the OP, the LLM-generated results were read, understood, and confirmed by the mathematician whose work they built on.
I notice a dichotomy here between people who care about results and people who care about process. The former group wants to use LLMs insofar as they can contribute to getting results. The latter group is wary of LLMs because they're more interested in the process and less interested in the results themselves. Needless to say, I think the former group is right, and I'm happy to see that mathematicians (or some of them) agree.
Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#507Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#508This jives with what I've experienced in the brief time I had access to 5.5 Pro. It's the very first LLM that I feel like I can wrangle into solving tedious, but straightforward, problems correctly. It still makes a ton of mistakes and needs to be very rigidly guided, but it does a pretty good job of tracing its own reasoning and correcting itself in a way that the other models do not. The downside (not noted in the…
> can wrangle into solving tedious, but straightforward, problems correctly. It still makes a ton of mistakes and needs to be very rigidly guided,
I don’t know about the rest of y’all but I find “rigidly guiding” LLM’s incredibly tedious and frustrating in the same way seeing an error code throw for the 40th time while troubleshooting something on my computer for two hours is frustrating. It also feels somewhat like micromanaging a direct report. I don’t find that process fun or enjoyable in the slightest and it teaches me little in the process. It’s just trading styles of work, and I guess the response to that is “some people prefer that of work.” I just don’t like being told by the world we all have to work that way now I guess.
Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#509Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for this comment. I often fall into the why of graduate school many times. The pay is insufficient, hours are long, but at least I find it very satisfying on good days. It is just the feeling that what I do may not be unique anymore is what sucks. I didn't necessarily mean to find glory through incredible work alone, but through being unique in the problems I choose. Anyway, I digress.
And this matters to you? To be unique? So you care about what other people think about you and you must be special in their eyes? Cuck beta male mindset
[dead]
Re: A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
#510This jives with what I've experienced in the brief time I had access to 5.5 Pro. It's the very first LLM that I feel like I can wrangle into solving tedious, but straightforward, problems correctly. It still makes a ton of mistakes and needs to be very rigidly guided, but it does a pretty good job of tracing its own reasoning and correcting itself in a way that the other models do not. The downside (not noted in the…
> This jives with what I've experienced Just as an fyi, the word you are looking for is jibes. Jive is something else entirely.
Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive.