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2025: The Year in LLMs

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Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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Post by resize2996 »

least wrote: post #194
bigyabai wrote: post #179

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FWIW, your "evidence" is a text editor. I'm glad you made a tool that works for you, but the parent's point stands; this is a 200-level course-curriculum homework assignment. Tens of thousands of homemade editors exist, in various states of disrepair and vain overengineering.

The difference between those is the person is actually using this text editor that they built with the help of LLMs. There's plenty of people creating novel scripts and programs that can accommodate their own unique specifications. If a programmer creating their own software (or contracting it out to a developer) would be a bespoke suit and using software someone or some company created without your input is an off t…

compilers can only produce machine code. so unorginal.

Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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Post by th0ma5 »

dang wrote: post #192
_zagj wrote: post #103

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> He's one of the most valuable writers on LLMs Is he, really? Most of his blog posts are little more than opportunistic, buttressing commentary on someone else's blog post or article, often with a bit of AI apologia sprinkled in (for example, marginalizing people as paranoid for not taking AI companies at their word that they aren't aggressively scraping websites in violation of robots.txt, or exfiltrating user data…

Please stop.

I think when a moderator keeps intervening like this it really does mean that there's something wrong here. I think people would be less mad if you just went ahead and said that you have some kind of special arrangement here with this influencer and post publicly that you like them constantly spamming the site and letting their fans flood the place with deflection and appeals for donations to them. Even YouTube had to add a sponsored post disclaimer.

Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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Post by Y_Y »

chias wrote: post #256
ksec wrote: post #228

All these improvement in a single year, 2025. While this may seem obvious to those who follows along the AI / LLM news. It may be worth pointing out again ChatGPT was introduced to us in November 2022. I still dont believe AGI, ASI or Whatever AI will take over human in short period of time say 10 - 20 years. But it is hard to argue against the value of current AI, which many of the vocal critics on HN seems to have…

These are not all improvements. Listed: * The year of YOLO and the Normalization of Deviance * The year that Llama lost its way * The year of alarmingly AI-enabled browsers * The year of the lethal trifecta * The year of slop * The year that data centers got extremely unpopular

Not that YOLO, PJ Reddie released that in 2015

Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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Post by dragonwriter »

nen-nomad wrote: post #118
snigsnog wrote: post #81

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The internet and smartphones were immediately useful in a million different ways for almost every person. AI is not even close to that level. Very to somewhat useful in some fields (like programming) but the average person will easily be able to go through their day without using AI. The most wide-appeal possibility is people loving 100%-AI-slop entertainment like that AI Instagram Reels product. Maybe I'm just too d…

ChatGPT has roughly 800 million weekly active users. Almost everyone around me uses it daily. I think you are underestimating the adoption.

“Almost everyone will use it at free or effectively subsidized prices” and “It delivers utility which justifies its variable costs + fixed costs amortized over useful lifetime” are not the same thing, and its not clear how much of the use is tied to novelty such that if new and progressively more expensive to train releases at a regular cadence dropped off, usage, even at subsidized prices, would, too.

Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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th0ma5 wrote: post #430
simonw wrote: post #376

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"He even reposted the same link (which is about AI) with one of his posts when the upvotes fell off" Where did I do that? > He will do a blog post this month about this paper [0] That paper you linked to is a perfect example of where my approach can add value! Did you read it? Do you understand what it saying? It is dense . I would love to read an evaluation of that paper by someone who can rephrase the core ideas an…

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Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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Post by dang »

th0ma5 wrote: post #432
dang wrote: post #192

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Please stop.

I think when a moderator keeps intervening like this it really does mean that there's something wrong here. I think people would be less mad if you just went ahead and said that you have some kind of special arrangement here with this influencer and post publicly that you like them constantly spamming the site and letting their fans flood the place with deflection and appeals for donations to them. Even YouTube had t…

There's no special arrangement. The only issue is clarifying what content is welcome vs. unwelcome on HN. simonw's content is obviously welcome, and this ought to be obvious.

> I think people would be less mad

People aren't mad about this. The vast majority of this community values simonw's contributions, which are well within the sweet spot for material on HN. That's why his material gets upvoted, as minimaxir (no friend of astroturfers) has pointed out elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451969.

Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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Post by simonw »

th0ma5 wrote: post #430
simonw wrote: post #376

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"He even reposted the same link (which is about AI) with one of his posts when the upvotes fell off" Where did I do that? > He will do a blog post this month about this paper [0] That paper you linked to is a perfect example of where my approach can add value! Did you read it? Do you understand what it saying? It is dense . I would love to read an evaluation of that paper by someone who can rephrase the core ideas an…

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I had to paste that into a separate browser window (jwz blocks Hacker News referral traffic) and I cannot figure out how that story is relevant to this conversation. Did you share the right link?

Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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Post by aoeusnth1 »

llmslave2 wrote: post #253
lopatin wrote: post #214

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> Hey, I'm not the OG commentator, why do I have to explain myself! :) The issue is that you're not acknowledging or replying to people's explanations for _why_ they see this as exponential growth. It's almost as if you skimmed through the meat of the comment and then just re-phrased your original idea. > When Fernando Alonso (best rookie btw) goes from 0-60 in 2.4 seconds in his Aston Martin, is it reasonable to ass…

It's not in me to somehow disprove claims of exponential growth when there isn't even evidence provided of it. My point with the F1 comparison is to say that a short period of rapid improvement doesn't imply exponential growth and it's about as weird to expect that as it is for an f1 car to reach the speed of light. It's possible you know, the regulations are changing for next season - if Leclerc sets a new lap recor…

There is already evidence provided of it! METR time horizons is going up on an exponential trend. This is literally the most famous AI benchmark and already mentioned in this thread.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-14-how-does-time-horizon-vary-...

Re: 2025: The Year in LLMs

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Post by dang »

th0ma5 wrote: post #430
simonw wrote: post #376

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"He even reposted the same link (which is about AI) with one of his posts when the upvotes fell off" Where did I do that? > He will do a blog post this month about this paper [0] That paper you linked to is a perfect example of where my approach can add value! Did you read it? Do you understand what it saying? It is dense . I would love to read an evaluation of that paper by someone who can rephrase the core ideas an…

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You've posted over 40 replies hounding this one user whom you seem to be fixated on. We've already asked you to stop (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44726957) but you've continued:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46409736

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395646

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209386

This is obviously an abuse of HN, regardless of who you're being aggressive towards. We ban accounts that keep doing this. If you keep doing it, we will ban you, so no more of this please.

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