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"Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline to pull the geometry from the raw pixels, then reconstructed the full machine part." How surreal is it that we are not absolutely jaw-dropped by these types o…
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I don't find it jaw-dropping because the idea is quite simple. Just feed the model an enormous amount of unethically sourced data, build data centers that cause droughts, and use all chips available so that normal people can't afford to buy RAM anymore. We're all sacrificing great things in order to make these models more capable. Whether it'll all be worth it, only time will tell.
> We're all sacrificing great things Oh please. > Unethically sourced data Is that a great sacrifice? > data centers that cause droughts That's nonsense. > normal people can't afford to buy RAM anymore Lol? Another great sacrifice? This isn't a healthy or sensible way to think.
It is not like it is much different right now but it may be significantly worse.
And even that is one of the “good” outcomes assuming no ASI.
I compared the writing style of Opus 5 vs Fable 5, and Opus 5 continues many of the "Claude-isms" of its 4.8 predecessor in a way that Fable broke away from. Opus 5 still uses "carry the argument", "worth stating plainly", ", and the trap", "The X matters more", the use of "move" We need an "annoying English" benchmark. - Fable 5 Max: https://gist.github.com/deet/3d97f854b48eac6658d642fa18bb24d... - Opus 5 Max: https…
And this is the most important observation in this thread. It’s load-bearing!
I had a moderately complex review in a large C/C++ codebase that Codex/GPT-5.6-sol already cleaned up so I threw it at Opus 5. 4 errors found. That seemed odd, so I handed it back to GPT. All were false. Opus doesn't seem to look at the wider context and understand which functions were called in certain contexts. I gave GPT's analysis back to Opus and it admitted its mistake. Maybe it's good for writing code, but as…
"Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline to pull the geometry from the raw pixels, then reconstructed the full machine part." How surreal is it that we are not absolutely jaw-dropped by these types o…
We are. Now we have a new tool and many of us are using it. But we're also nearly all way too aware of the insane (near infinite) amount of sloppy-pasta code out there and of all the vibe-coded projects that went absolutely nowhere.
I'm a "show me the money" type of guy. I see, say, Linux, Git and OpenSSH: these weren't vibe-coded. And they took over and are running the entire world.
Where is the AI-coded killer app? One app, in any domain: something that took over its world.
I don't want to see yes man sloppy-pasta stuff: where's the next Blender? Where's the next 3D slicer?
I wouldn't be paying three AI subscriptions if I didn't believe in those new tools but I don't think it helps to only see the PR and then play the won't hear / won't see / won't hear monkey about the infinite amount of sloppy-pasta that's out there.
Six months ago we had the "one shot'ted compiler by Anthropic". Six months later: who's using it to compile anything? And who wrote another compiler? Where are all the one-shot'ted compilers all so good that they replaced our human-written compilers?
Yup, us, humans, created yet another incredible machine... But please,
Show. Me. The. Money.
"Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline to pull the geometry from the raw pixels, then reconstructed the full machine part." How surreal is it that we are not absolutely jaw-dropped by these types o…
Surely being able to view the raw pixels counts as viewing the drawing... How else does a computer view a drawing?
"Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline to pull the geometry from the raw pixels, then reconstructed the full machine part." How surreal is it that we are not absolutely jaw-dropped by these types o…
> responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline Was it "its own" or something that was part of its training material? Don't get me wrong, I find this all amazing too and makes my work 10x easier and quicker. But it's not like it's inventing this stuff from scratch / first principles. It has seen this kind of tech before by consuming all publicly available source code and books etc. (And that's ok, but let's b…
You wrote this response in English, but didn't invent your own language. How dilute of a contribution can someone/something have made and still merit credit?
"Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline to pull the geometry from the raw pixels, then reconstructed the full machine part." How surreal is it that we are not absolutely jaw-dropped by these types o…
coz every single time a list of caveats pops up and it doesn't look as impressive any more... and then someone finds a way to trip model on basic shit
Seems really good so far using it in Claude Code CLI - it gave me a new flag when I asked a question: "I don't have a reliable way to read that number, so I'd be guessing if I gave you one — and this is exactly the kind of question where a confident guess is worse than none. What I can tell you is what I actually observe:" I really like this update - gave me a clear sense of the facts but didn't give me a guess just…
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Imagine if I hired someone to do a cad drawing, and they spent X days/weeks of time building a pipeline to visualise the part instead of asking how can they view the part? We’d call that a complete and utter waste of money and time.
What if they spent 15 minutes doing that? Would you care then? Scale matters a _lot_.
Secondly, I used time as a proxy for cost. A single junior can "only" spend their own 15 minutes, but an agent can farm out to N subagents to do the work in 15 minutes, and spend $3000 in tokens building something. As you said, scale matters, so if they do this once a day for a month, it costs the same as paying 12 juniors to avoid asking a single question.