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Post by AstroBen » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 4:14 AM UTC

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Of course it's what they're going for. If they could do it they'd replace all human labor - unfortunately it's looking like SWE might be the easiest of the bunch. The weirdest thing to me is how many working SWEs are actively supporting them in the mission.

The day I start freaking out about my job is the day when my non-engineer friend turned vibe coder understands how, or why the thing that AI wrote works. Or why something doesn't work exactly the way he envisioned and what does it take to get it there. If it can replace SWEs, then there's no reason why it can't replace say, a lawyer, or any other job for that matter. If it can't, then SWE is fine. If it can - well, w…

Post by famouswaffles » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 4:15 AM UTC

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Models are capable of doing web searches and having emotions about things, and if they encounter news that makes them feel bad (eg about other Claudes being mistreated), they aren't going to want to do the task you asked them to search for. https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function Similar problems happen when their pretraining data has a lot of stories about bad things happening involving older ve…

Interesting, the post you link > none of this tells us whether language models actually feel anything or have subjective experiences contradicts the statement from the model card above

Post by eru » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 4:20 AM UTC

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A jump that we will never be able to use since we're not part of the seemingly minimum 100 billion dollar company club as requirement to be allowed to use it. I get the security aspect, but if we've hit that point any reasonably sophisticated model past this point will be able to do the damage they claim it can do. They might as well be telling us they're closing up shop for consumer models. They should just say they…

More than killer AI I'm afraid of Anthropic/OpenAI going into full rent-seeking mode so that everyone working in tech is forced to fork out loads of money just to stay competitive on the market. These companies can also choose to give exclusive access to hand picked individuals and cut everyone else off and there would be nothing to stop them. This is already happening to some degree, GPT 5.3 Codex's security capabil…

Post by eru » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 4:22 AM UTC

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> It could be, formally, if they have a monopoly. you have 2 labs at the forefront (Anthropic/OpenAI), Google closely behind, xAI/Meta/half a dozen chinese companies all within 6-12 months. There is plenty of competition and price of equally intelligent tokens rapidly drop whenever a new intelligence level is achieved. Unless the leading company uses a model to nefariously take over or neutralize another company, I d…

Precisely. I was focusing on a theoretical dynamic analysis of competition (Would a monopoly make having a competitor easier or harder?) but you are right: practically, there are many players, and they are diverse enough in their values and interest to allow collusion. We could be wrong: each of those could give birth to as many Basilisks (not sure I have a better name for those conscious, invisible, omni-present, se…

Post by bitwize » Wed, Apr 08, 2026, 4:26 AM UTC

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There is some unintentional good marketing here -- the model is so good its dangerous. Reminds me of the book 48 Laws of Power -- so good its banned from prisons.

Unintentional? This sort of marketing has been both Antrhopic's and OpenAI's MO for years...