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Post by ElProlactin »

utopiah wrote: post #556
ElProlactin wrote: post #528

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally know several digital marketing people who were "tech savvy" but had no programming experience who have launched websites that would have cost them thousands of dollars to build. So much of what you'd previously pay a "real" freelance developer or web "agency" to build is no less "garbage" than what engineers would call the average vibe-coded web app. Claude in particular is today really surprisingly good…

> digital marketing people who were "tech savvy" but had no programming experience who have launched websites that would have cost them thousands of dollars to build. Static Websites have been commoditizatized for decades now. We had : - one-click deploy Open-Source CMS - single page places like Geocities providing own domain - design templates where you just add your own logo, tagline, etc This is just yet another w…

I'm not talking about static websites. I'm talking about tech-savvy non-engineers who have been able to build fully-functional dynamic websites (with user registration, dashboards, integrations with third-party services, etc.) using AI.

I think way too many engineers underestimate the ability of tech-savvy non-engineers to use AI to build quite sophisticated applications today.

Would these scale to millions of users? Are they totally secure? Surely no. But if we're being honest, most freelancers and agencies haven't been producing highly-scalable, highly-secure work product either.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

gsleblanc wrote: post #546
nightski wrote: post #228

Anyone else fearing Anthropic more and more each day? Not from a perspective that they are doing so well, but rather that it's like an industry tornado, sucking up and destroying everything in it's path.

Yes. I think Anthropic's success with claude code + cowork and the way it's shredding through white-collar work is basically cementing the thesis of Geoffrey Hinton's latest paper ( https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12559-026-105... ). I highly recommend reading it in full, but briefly: 1. Copernican Revolution -> We aren't the center of the universe 2. The Darwinian Revolution -> We aren't the pinnacle…

> The hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into data center build-out basically hinges on this thesis, and frankly I trust the judgements of the billionaires financing these deals better than LLM-naysayers on hackernews (not to mention the non-public info they have access to).

I actually think both perspectives can be true. If you look at (IMO) the most rational takes of "LLM-naysayers on hackernews", it's not that LLMs are useless, but it's that they're still just tools, and while they can do a lot of high-level "rearranging of past experience" that looks an awful lot like intelligence, human intelligence is still required for lots of higher level thinking tasks, and there look to be limits to the "just scale" approach.

The problem is there are still tons of jobs that actually don't require much high-level, human-only thinking where it's easy to see a clear path where AI obliterates all those jobs pretty quickly. Automating those jobs will still be probably one of the largest wealth transfers in history from labor to capital.

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Post by swyx »

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Post by blitzar »

Maxatar wrote: post #534
mannanj wrote: post #416

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would have been great to hear that his inability to do the interview memorization bullshit as a senior was why he didn't get hired somewhere like OpenAI. lol. Except the good companies probably dont make you do silly stupid outdated interview practices without the tools you can actually use on the job today, right?

Karpathy is a co-founder of OpenAI.

Sam Altman is a co-founder of OpenAI.

Do you think he could pass an entry level interview for a frontier lab?

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Post by godelski »

DesaiAshu wrote: post #523
stingraycharles wrote: post #489

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Am I the only one who wasn’t particularly impressed by AutoResearch? If you looked at what the agent was actually doing, it was just tuning parameters mostly, not really trying different novel approaches. I couldn’t help myself but consider this mostly a very inefficient variant of hyperparameter optimization, but someone correct me if I’m wrong, I may be looking at this too pessimistic.

Inefficient variants with $100m+ worth of compute will still probably outperform the best team of researchers

That's not the question. The question is how much you need to give the best team of researchers to beat $100m+ worth of compute. $1m of compute? $10m? Clearly giving the best team $100m is going to beat out giving an efficient group $100m. It does in fact matter who you throw your money at...

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Post by steinvakt2 »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #204
gyomu wrote: post #127

We are in the early stages of AI. Anthropic is Altavista and OpenAI is AskJeeves or something. 10-20 years from now the scene will be unrecognizable and all of this will be inconsequential but at the same time it is the fondation on which tomorrow is built.

OpenAI will be the Yahoo of AI. Starting off as a household name, but fades to irrelevancy as competitors take over.

Codex with GPT 5.5 is so good that I don't understand why people have this position. And I've been using cursor for a year, switching models (I did like both Opus 4.6 and 4.7)

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Post by godelski »

bonoboTP wrote: post #498
4ashz wrote: post #492

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More like he'll blog and tweet about using Claude and get gullible software engineers to buy Claude subscriptions and work on their own obsolescence while paying for it. Many people are still deluded and think he is the same person who wrote the informal AI tutorials in plain html. He isn't, he is selling stuff now.

What is he selling? How is this time different compared to when he was at OpenAI or at Tesla? You could say he was shilling those products too. I don't see any shift. He's still posted free in depth YouTube videos recently.

FYI, Karpathy has 2.5M followers on twitter, Anthropic has 1.3M (OpenAI has 4.8M, for comparison). I'm sure Karpathy will be doing mostly research and will make real contributions, but I also think it would be naive to ignore the weight of his voice. It's not negligible, nor is it the only thing he brings.

Re: I’ve joined Anthropic

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Post by seydor »

aykutseker wrote: post #295

the glorified marketer framing in this thread is missing the bigger signal. karpathy publicly pausing eureka labs to join anthropic is an ai founder of his caliber effectively conceding that verticals get eaten by frontier upgrades.for everyone here building on top of foundation, that's the actual news

Nah it's the best he could do
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