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Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by inerte »

ainch wrote: post #339
reactordev wrote: post #314

Cracks are emerging. Having to remind users of your relevancy with daily meditations is the first sign that you need your engagement numbers up desperately.

Their recent paper suggests the active user base is continuing to grow consistently with consistent/growing usage based on how long they've been using the app. https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f-8260-40c6-a2cc-aa93fe9f1...

I think you meant app users churn less, not that more app usage brings new users. But I think you said the later? Doesn't make much sense.

Anyway, attention == ads, so that's ChatGPT's future.

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Post by redbell »

Here's the announcement from Atlman: https://x.com/sama/status/1971297661748953263

Quoted from that tweet:

> It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates.

At this point in time, I'd say: bye privacy, see you!

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Post by Geste »

jasonsb wrote: post #66
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #27

My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels…

> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways. It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and crit…

Bad take about blockchain. Being able to send value across borders without intermediaries is unheard of in human history.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by PeterFBell »

OtherShrezzing wrote: post #183
jasonsb wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Objectively. I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago, but the biggest breakthrough has been overcoming procrastination. When AI handles over 50% of the work, there’s a 90% chance I’ll finish the entire task faster than it would normally take me just to get started on something new.

> I’m now tackling tasks I wouldn’t have even considered two or three years ago Could you give some examples, and an indication of your level of experience in the domains? The statement has a much different meaning if you were a junior developer 2 years ago versus a staff engineer.

I have been coding on and off (more off than on) for 47 years. I kinda stopped paying attention when we got past jquery and was never a fan of prototypical inheritance. Never built anything with tailwind, Next.js, etc. After spending some time writing copy, user stories and a design brief (all iterative with ChatGPT) cursor one shot my (simple) web app and I was live (once I'd spent a couple hours documenting my requirements and writing my copy) in 20 minutes of vibe coding.

I've been adding small features in a language I don't program in using libraries I'm not familiar with thhat meet my modest functional requirements in a couple minutes each. I work with an LLM to refine my prompt, put it into cursor, run the app locally, look at the diffs, commit, push and I'm live on vercel within a minute or two.

I don't have any good metrics for productivity, so I'm 100% subjective but I can say that even if I'd been building in Rails (it's been ~4 years but I coded in it for a decade) it would have taken me at least 8 hours to have an app where I was happy with both the functionality and the look and feel so a 10x improvement in productivity for that task feels about right.

And having a "buddy" I can discuss a project with makes activation energy lower allowing me to complete more.

Also, YC videos I don't have the time to watch, I get a transcript, feed into chatGTP, ask for the key take aways I could apply to my business (it's in a project where it has context on stage, industry, maturity, business goals, key challenges, etc) so I get the benefits of 90 minutes of listening plus maybe 15 minutes of summarizing, reviewing and synthesis in typically 5-6 minutes - and it'd be quicker if I built a pipeline (something I'm vibe coding next month)

Wouldn't want to do business without it.

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Post by beering »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #67
password54321 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So are we near AGI or is it 'just' an LLM? Seems like no one is clear on what these things can and cannot do anymore because everyone is being gaslighted to keep the investment going.

It will always just be a series of models that have specific training for specific input classes. The architectural limits will always be there, regardless of training.

That’s an interesting point. It’s not hard to imagine that LLMs are much more intelligent in areas where humans hit architectural limitations. Processing tokens seems to be a struggle for humans (look at how few animals do it overall, too), but since so much of the human brain is dedicated to movement planning, it makes sense that we still have an edge there.

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Post by xpe »

lexarflash8g wrote: post #197

I'm thinking OpenAI's strategy is to get users hooked on these new features to push ads on them. Hey, for that recipe you want to try, have you considered getting new knives or cooking ware? Found some good deals. For your travel trip, found a promo on a good hotel located here -- perfect walking distance for hiking and good restaraunts that have Thai food. Your running progress is great and you are hitting strides?…

Ads? That’s quaint. Think “broad-spectrum mental manipulation”.

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Post by keeda »

tbossanova wrote: post #341
keeda wrote: post #312

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of those studies call this out and try to control for it (edit: "it" here being the usual limitations of LoC and PRs as measures of productivity) where possible. But to your point, no, there is still a strong net positive effect: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDDYKRFjhk (from Stanford, not an RCT, but the largest scale with actual commits from 100K developers across 600+ companies, and tries to account for…

Could you try to avoid uncertainties like this by measuring something like revenue growth before and after AI? Given enough data.

Hmm, not an economist but I have seen other studies that look at things at the firm level, so definitely should be possible. A quick search on Google and SSRN didn't turn up some studies but they seem to focus on productivity rather than revenues, not sure why. Maybe because such studies depend on the available data, however, so a lot of key information may be hidden, e.g. revenues of privately held companies which constitute a large part of the economy.

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Post by xpe »

> This is the first step toward a more useful ChatGPT that proactively brings you what you need, helping you make more progress so you can get back to your life.

“Don’t burden yourself with the little details that constitute your life, like deciding how to interact with people. Let us do that. Get back to what you like best: e.g. video games.”

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Post by al_be_back »

blks wrote: post #182
jama211 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not this again. That study had serious problems. But I’m not even going to argue about that. I want to raise something no one else seems to mention about AI in coding work. I do a lot of work now with AI that I used to code by hand, and if you told me I was 20% slower on average, I would say “that’s totally fine it’s still worth it” because the EFFORT level from my end feels so much less. It’s like, a robot vacuum mi…

Often someone’s personal productivity with AI means someone else have to dig through their piles of rubbish to review PR they committed. In your particular case it sounds like you’re rapidly loosing your developer skills, and enjoy that now you have to put less effort and think less.

Gets worse for projects outsourced to 1+ Consultancy firms, where staff costs are prohibitively high, now you've got another layer of complexity to factor in (risks, costs).

Consultancy A submit work, Consultancy B reviews/tests. As A increases the use of AI, B will have to match with more staff or more AI. More staff for B, mean higher costs, at slower pace. More AI for B, means higher burden of proof, an A vs B race condition is likely.

Ultimately clients will suffer from AI fatigue and inadvertently incur more costs at later stage (post-delivery).

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