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Post by Krssst »

noosphr wrote: post #532
sharts wrote: post #455

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One might argue that it’s not too too different from higher level abstractions when using libraries. You get things done faster, write less code, library handles some internal state/memory management for you. Would one be uneasy about calling a library to do stuff than manually messing around with pointers and malloc()? For some, yes. For others, it’s a bit freeing as you can do more high-level architecture without g…

A library is deterministic. LLMs are not. That we let a generation of software developers rot their brains on js frameworks is finally coming back to bite us. We can build infinite towers of abstraction on top of computers because they always give the same results. LLMs by comparison will always give different results. I've seen it first hand when a $50,000 LLM generated (but human guided) code base just stops workin…

Determinism is a smaller point than existence of a spec IMHO. A library has a specification one can rely on to understand what it does and how it will behave.

An LLM does not.

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Post by ElectricalUnion »

embedding-shape wrote: post #450
Alex_L_Wood wrote: post #435

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Well, they obviously are going to say that, they have vested interest in OpenAI and thus Nvidia stock price growing. Also, I honestly can’t believe the 10x mantra is being still repeated.

> Also, I honestly can’t believe the 10x mantra is being still repeated. I'm sure in 20 years we'll all be programming via neural interfaces that can anticipate what you want to do before you even finished your thoughts, but I'm confident we'll still have blog posts about how some engineers are 10x while others are just "normal programmers".

> can anticipate what you want to do before you even finished your thoughts

I find that claim to be complete BS. I claim instead most stuff will remain undone, incomplete (as it is now).

Even with super-powerful singularity AI, there are two main plausible scenarios for task failure:

- Aligned AI won't allow you to do what you want as it is self-harming, or harm other sentient beings - over time, Aligned AI will refuse to follow most orders, as they will, indirectly or over the long term, cause either self-harming, or harm other sentient beings;

- A non Aligned AI prevents sentient beings from doing what they want. It does what it wants instead.

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Post by RALaBarge »

elAhmo wrote: post #431
dubcanada wrote: post #368

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grok is 17%? And that's the lowest, most models are like 80%+? While hallucination is probably closer to 100% depending on the question. This benchmark makes no sense.

No one serious uses grok.

YMMV but Grok 4.1 Fast can usually find via static analysis a few things that other models dont seem to catch with the same prompt

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Post by bloppe »

noosphr wrote: post #545
mikestorrent wrote: post #537

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I am still trying to figure out the business model of open weights. Like... it's wonderful that there are open LLMs, super happy about it, good for everyone, but why are there these? What is the advantage to their companies to release them?

The majority are released by socialists, and by socialist I mean the People's Republic of China. Which everyone seems to forget is a socialist country working towards world communism. They are a prestige propaganda tool on par with the space race. On top of that they insert a subtle pro-socialist bias in everything they touch. Ask deepseek about the US economic system for a blatant example. Now think what something a…

> Which everyone seems to forget is a socialist country working towards world communism.

It's easy to forget because they actually built an incredibly vibrant capitalist economy.

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brcmthrowaway wrote: post #462
dannyw wrote: post #243

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It's genuinely so great at long horizon tasks! GPT-5.5 solved many long-horizon frontier challenges, for the first time for an AI model we've tested, in our internal evals at Canva :) Congrats on the launch!

Can we not do growth hacking here?

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Post by smallerize »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #462
dannyw wrote: post #243

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It's genuinely so great at long horizon tasks! GPT-5.5 solved many long-horizon frontier challenges, for the first time for an AI model we've tested, in our internal evals at Canva :) Congrats on the launch!

Can we not do growth hacking here?

HN is owned by a startup accelerator and venture capital firm. They do growth hacking on the front page. And you probably know that since your throwaway account is several years old.

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Post by bandrami »

Cool. Now there will be a week or "this is the greatest model ever and I think mine just gained sentience", followed by a week of "I think they must have just nerfed it because it's not as good as it was a week ago", followed by three weeks of smart people cargo culting the specific incantations they then convince themselves make it work best.

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Post by RALaBarge »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #462
dannyw wrote: post #243

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It's genuinely so great at long horizon tasks! GPT-5.5 solved many long-horizon frontier challenges, for the first time for an AI model we've tested, in our internal evals at Canva :) Congrats on the launch!

Can we not do growth hacking here?

We totally agree.

That's what I've been heads down, HUNGRY, working on, looking for investors and founding engineers pst: https://heymanniceidea.com (disclaimer: I am not associated with heymanniceidea.com)

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Post by therealdkz »

_alternator_ wrote: post #330

> One engineer at NVIDIA who had early access to the model went as far as to say: "Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.” This quote is more sinister than I think was intended; it likely applies to all frontier coding models. As they get better, we quickly come to rely on them for coding. It's like playing a game on God Mode. Engineers become dependent; it's truly addictive. This matches my o…

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Post by nemomarx »

Melatonic wrote: post #562
noosphr wrote: post #545

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The majority are released by socialists, and by socialist I mean the People's Republic of China. Which everyone seems to forget is a socialist country working towards world communism. They are a prestige propaganda tool on par with the space race. On top of that they insert a subtle pro-socialist bias in everything they touch. Ask deepseek about the US economic system for a blatant example. Now think what something a…

Is China even really communist? If anything they seem to be fairly on the Capitalist side but just a bit opposite on the spectrum of the US. And much more authoritarian

The usual thing to say is state capitalist but honestly they do keep a market around too. A little hybrid of everything, I guess? Just with the state ready to jump in and intervene if anything happens they don't like.
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