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GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild

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Re: GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild

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Look at those people shouting this will be AGI / total disruption etc. Seems Elon managed one thing; to amass the dumbest folks together. 99.99% maga, crypto and almost markov chain quality comments.

Your contrary certainty has the same humorously over-confident tone.

It’s incredible how few people can see their own reflection.

Re: GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild

#52
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This is what put me off Claude Code. When I wanted. To dig in, I tried to watch a few Youtube videos to see an expert's opinion it, and 90% people who talk about it feel like former crypto shills, who, from their channel history, seem like have never written a single line of code without AI in their lives.

As someone who doesn't keep track of the influencer scene at the moment because I am way addicted to building... You should totally give Claude Code a try. The biggest problem is that it is glaze-optimized, so have to work at getting it to not treat you like the biggest genius of all time. But when you manage to get in a good flow with it, and your project is very predictably searchable, results start to be quite hel…

I will try it. I did use Cursor agents beforehand (using Sonnet/Opus 4), and my problems were that it was slower than I was (meaning me prompting AI), and was not good enough to leave it unattended.

Re: GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild

#53
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99% of AI influencers are the same people who emailed you pictures as a Word attachment a year ago.

This is what put me off Claude Code. When I wanted. To dig in, I tried to watch a few Youtube videos to see an expert's opinion it, and 90% people who talk about it feel like former crypto shills, who, from their channel history, seem like have never written a single line of code without AI in their lives.

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Re: GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild

#54
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Agree, it would be bizarre if they did.

It would be bizarre if they benchmarked the models based on actual task performance?

Let’s not move the goalposts. It would be bizarre if they got into a sociological study of impact on job roles.

Re: GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild

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post #44
post #34

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I don’t see how this follows. Does AGI mean that it is free to operate and has no hardware / power constraints? The fact that I see people being paid to dig a trench does not make me doubt the existence of trenching machines. It just means that the tool is not always the best choice for every job.

> Does AGI mean that it is free to operate and has no hardware / power constraints? It is that and an autonomous system that can generate $100BN dollars in profits. (OpenAI and Microsoft's definition of AGI) So maybe when we see a commercial airplane with no human pilots on board but an LLM piloting the plane with no intervention needed? Would you board such a plane?

Extreme rhetoric weakens arguments. Would you let Albert Einstein perform open heart surgery on you? AHA! Maybe he wasn’t that smart.

Re: GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild

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post #54

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It would be bizarre if they benchmarked the models based on actual task performance?

Let’s not move the goalposts. It would be bizarre if they got into a sociological study of impact on job roles.

Not sure why you think that? One of their biggest sales pitches to businesses is the potential for their products to replace certain job roles in the future. Why wouldn't they be actively doing research on real-world usage and impact right now?

Re: GPT-5-reasoning alpha found in the wild

#57
post #48
post #45

Yeah this is as big of a news as iPhone 18 in the pipeline.

Sama clocked this way back. He has used this exact analogy - that new GPT models will feel like incremental new iPhone releases c.f. the first iPhone/GPT-3.

Seems a bit early to use that analogy though. Early iPhones upgrades generally had significant improvements in almost all specs.
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