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Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#21

Post by dcchambers »

kridsdale3 wrote: post #15
CyberMacGyver wrote: post #11

At this rate it’s better to start a company and get aquihired vs applying and getting hired. Seems like OpenAI speed ran through the Facebook phase and are out of ideas

Au contraire, based on their recent hires, they're just beginning their Facebook phase. Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now, and expect to see a LOT of money being made by the company a year after that. If they can maintain runway until then.

Are people really going to keep using these AI tools if they start shoving ads down our throats?

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#22

Post by codegeek »

eCa wrote: post #12

I don't use Alex so this doesn't affect me, but: > our plan is to continue serving you. How many months until OpenAI no longer feels it?

" but will stop new downloads of the app on October 1st."

This tells me that they wont be supporting it forever and at some point will sunset it. I could be totally wrong of course.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#23

Post by joaogui1 »

dfsegoat wrote: post #19
kridsdale3 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Au contraire, based on their recent hires, they're just beginning their Facebook phase. Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now, and expect to see a LOT of money being made by the company a year after that. If they can maintain runway until then.

> Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now I think I am just slow today - but could you please elaborate?

Ads on ChatGPT as a way to extract more money from users

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#24

Post by ornornor »

dcchambers wrote: post #21
kridsdale3 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Au contraire, based on their recent hires, they're just beginning their Facebook phase. Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now, and expect to see a LOT of money being made by the company a year after that. If they can maintain runway until then.

Are people really going to keep using these AI tools if they start shoving ads down our throats?

Worked for every tech company so far.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#25

Post by layoric »

dcchambers wrote: post #21
kridsdale3 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Au contraire, based on their recent hires, they're just beginning their Facebook phase. Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now, and expect to see a LOT of money being made by the company a year after that. If they can maintain runway until then.

Are people really going to keep using these AI tools if they start shoving ads down our throats?

Just by the nature of the product, the manipulation will be a lot more subtle, and likely more successful than traditional ads..

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#26

Post by whinvik »

The failed Windsurf bid and this makes me think OpenAI feels they need to focus more on the coding agent use case.

Still thinking about the endgame. Its not obvious to me if OpenAI/Anthropic will become competitors to coding startups like Cursor or continue to be model providers.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#27

Post by moomoo11 »

emehex wrote: post #9
liurenju wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

absolutely no. Alex is heavily optimized for xcode. If you work on an ios project that has more than 700 files, you'll understand how accurate it captures the context.

If your iOS project has more than 700 files... you might be doing it wrong?

I mean.. say its an enterprise mobile app. Maybe there are 2 shells, each shell has 5 tabs. Each tab might have 5 screens on it.. that's 50 files already just for the screens. Each screen might have various UI components or steppers, etc.

Most noobs, such as those who think 700 files is too many because they've only worked on apps they never published, might just cram everything into that one file.

However, there would be various files for components, functions, etc. Code that's single responsibility and easy to test might mean there are lots of files. There might be upload queues, offline functionality, custom code to go beyond what the ios/android SDKs offer, and so on. DTOs, DAOs, etc. various services..

You probably (won't) get the gist but yeah.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#28

Post by jonahx »

layoric wrote: post #25
dcchambers wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are people really going to keep using these AI tools if they start shoving ads down our throats?

Just by the nature of the product, the manipulation will be a lot more subtle, and likely more successful than traditional ads..

It's terrifying.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

#29

Post by CuriouslyC »

whinvik wrote: post #26

The failed Windsurf bid and this makes me think OpenAI feels they need to focus more on the coding agent use case. Still thinking about the endgame. Its not obvious to me if OpenAI/Anthropic will become competitors to coding startups like Cursor or continue to be model providers.

Neither type has agents in their DNA. The IDE agent companies are dragging an enormous vestigial appendage, and the the scientists at frontier labs are stuck in the next token prediction mindset. This needs a systems engineering approach with online learning from feedback and high throughput optimization experiments run end to end.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

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Post by ahartmetz »

layoric wrote: post #25
dcchambers wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are people really going to keep using these AI tools if they start shoving ads down our throats?

Just by the nature of the product, the manipulation will be a lot more subtle, and likely more successful than traditional ads..

Maybe something good comes out of the work to only push products that actually exist. /s
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