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I've been working with computers for a long time, and this was the first time in a long time I'd seen software do something genuinely new.
I uploaded one of my sketches and asked for feedback, expecting it to not be too useful, but it actually pointed out many issues that no one had ever pointed out to me, but perfectly explained some of the things that felt off to me. Out of curiosity I then also asked it to label the issues in the sketch. It wrote a python script with the coordinates to put everything at and labeled the sketch that way.
I'm still used to vLLMs not being that great at vision, so it was pretty surprising to get genuinely useful advice.
When people introduced themselves to me, I knew a little about their startup. Felt magical.
The big one was definitely ChatGPT upon release in 2022 and specifically when people showed how it can role play as a Linux terminal and you can narrate events like "the data enter is now on fire" and "run" nvidia-smi, it would show high temps on the gpus etc. Or you could "explore" the homedir or some famous person. It convinced me that if it can understand so well how terminals work, tool use and agents are around…
I think all those Steve Spielbergs hiding among the 8 billion - without connections and without hollywood names, having their day without getting filtered out by investor gremiums playing it safe - will produce enough material to be happy cineast for life.
I've had plenty of "Oh shit those people have really lost all ability to think for themselves" moments though.