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Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by andai »

_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…

A while ago I was at the supermarket. I suddenly became curious about some fact, and reached into my pocket to Google it.

I found my pocket empty, and the specific pain I felt in that moment was the feeling of not being able to remember something.

I thought it was interesting, because in this case, I was trying to "remember" something I had never learned before -- by fetching it from my second brain (hypertext).

L1 cache miss, L2 missing.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #310
torginus wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird how people pep talk the AI - if my Jira tickets looked like this, I would throw a fit. I guess these people think they have special prompt engineering skills, and doing it like this is better than giving the AI a dry list of requirements (fwiw, they might be even right)

It’s not surprising to me that the same crowd that cheers for the demise of software engineering skills invented its own notion of AI prompting skills. Too bad they can veer sharply into cringe territory pretty fast: “as an accomplished Senior Principal Engineer at a FAANG with 22 years of experience, create a todo list app.” It’s like interactive fanfiction.

That's quite similar to the AI Studio's prompt. You are a world-class frontend engineer...

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by Mauneam »

_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…

You are that guy in early 1900s who would rather ride a horse than get in a car because cars "continued to make him uneasy."

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by blakewatson »

Chaosvex wrote: post #601
pzo wrote: post #550

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMHO this is only temporary, china buying themselves some time and want to make sure none of US models get entrenched in their position in the next few years (also putting pressure on US AI companies bleeding them) The same way like Windows got entrenched everywhere even though linux desktop is pretty good even for non-tech savvy people and free.

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Seems like people don't like this comment, but I chuckled. Nice one.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by CapsAdmin »

sharts wrote: post #455
_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…

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…

I think it's not too different in that specific sense, but it's more than that. To bring libraries on equal footing, imagine they were cloud only, had usage limits.

I'm also somewhat addicted to this stuff, and so for me it's high priority to evaluate open models I can run on my own hardware.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by nunez »

moritonal wrote: post #481
ofjcihen wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see this comparison made constantly and for me it misses the mark. When you use abstractions you are still deterministically creating something you understand in depth with individual pieces you understand. When you vibe something you understand only the prompt that started it and whether or not it spits out what you were expecting. Hence feeling lost when you suddenly lose access to frontier models and take a look…

I think it's more: when I don't have access to a compiler I am useless. It's better to go for a walk than learn assembly. AI agents turn our high-level language into code, with various hints, much like the compiler.

Installed on your machine vs. cloud service that's struggling to maintain capacity is an unfair comparison...

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by raincole »

Someone1234 wrote: post #65

I'd like to draw people's attention to this section of this page: https://developers.openai.com/codex/pricing?codex-usage-limi... Note the Local Messages between 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5. And, yes, I did read the linked article and know they're claiming that 5.5's new efficient should make it break-even with 5.4, but the point stands, tighter limits/higher prices.

It's such a vague table for pricing information. 30-150 messages...? What?

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by hol4b »

cynicalpeace wrote: post #17

It's possible that "smarter" AI won't lead to more productivity in the economy. Why? Because software and "information technology" generally didn't increase productivity over the past 30 years. This has been long known as Solow's productivity paradox. There's lots of theories as to why this is observed, one of them being "mismeasurement" of productivity data. But my favorite theory is that information technology is m…

25 years of shipping software, and IT absolutely increased productivity - just not for everyone, not everywhere. Some workflows got 10x faster, others got slower from meetings about the new tools.

AI feels the same. I'm shipping indie apps solo now that would have needed a small team five years ago. But in bigger orgs I see people spending 20 minutes verifying 15-minute AI output that used to be a 30-minute task they'd just do. Depends where you sit.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by i_love_retros »

noonething wrote: post #475
simonw wrote: post #195

This doesn't have API access yet, but OpenAI seem to approve of the Codex API backdoor used by OpenClaw these days... https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2046775849769148838 and https://twitter.com/romainhuet/status/2038699202834841962 And that backdoor API has GPT-5.5. So here's a pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/23/gpt-5-5/#and-some-peli... I used this new plugin for LLM: https://github.com/simonw/llm-op…

Thank you for doing all this. It's appreciated.

You do realise they are doing it for self promotion right?

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by nunez »

__alexs wrote: post #469
_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…

I feel like most engineers I talk to still haven't realised what this is going to mean for the industry. The power loom for coding is here. Our skills still matter, but differently.

No, I think many realize it, but it's easier to deny the asteroid that's about to destroy your way of life than it is to think about optimizing for the reality after impact.
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