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Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by tshaddox »

ghoblin wrote: post #688
ho_schi wrote: post #655

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I’m rather sure *Airbus* will prefer a programmer which reads and writes reliable code. The programmer which delivers useful products is probably hired by Microsoft? Or worse, Boeing. Or Toyota. Some NTSB people or Michael Barr are happy to tell you details about the number of dead people they created. Restart braking to brake because our code failed. Or. One single sensor delivers wrong data. Let us put the trim dow…

There are only so many safety-first companies and products. The vast majority of the economy isn't optimizing for safety

Could it be that the only large safety-first companies are the ones forced by law (either proactively, or due to reliable legal accountability if things go wrong) to be safety-first?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by lunias »

OpenAI wants OpenClaw because OpenAI is not hype anymore. That's it. I've been pretty put-off by OpenAI though, so this will likely reduce my interest in OpenClaw.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by cedws »

spacechild1 wrote: post #912
beernet wrote: post #879

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While that might take it a little too far, Lex surely is a dangerous individual. On various occasions did he sympathize with the war and terror that Russia is doing in Ukraine. I do not click on any of his content because I will not support these (and a few other questionable, to say the least) views of his. Also his image of an MIT researcher is hilarious.

Yes. How do so many people fall for this guy? I find him pretty creepy, to be honest.

Pretty sure he’s a complete fraud too. He associates himself with MIT despite only having had a short stint teaching non-credit classes. One of his papers was apparently so flawed it’s been wiped from existence. Plenty of info online if you want to go down the rabbit hole.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by NuclearPM »

tabs_or_spaces wrote: post #504

I'm happy for the guy, but am I jealous as well? Well yes, and that's perfectly human. We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities. This is reported by many folks We also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person. We don't know how much of the github stars are bought. We don't know how many twitter followings/tweets are bought. The…

What the heck is “softwares”?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by dpoloncsak »

rolymath wrote: post #781
mmaunder wrote: post #491

Good move. OpenClaw is alpha quality, very dangerous, super useful and super fun - which amplifies the danger. It’s a disaster waiting to happen and a massive risk for a solo dev to take on. So best to trade it for a killer job offer and transfer all that risk. To get a sense of what this guy was going through listen to the first 30 mins of Lex’s recent interview with him. The cybersquatting and token/crypto bullshit…

> Listen to... Lex People can do that? I always assumed Lex was a CIA psyop to experiment with the ability to make people sleep on demand.

You don't really listen for Lex, but his guests.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by johnthescott »

latexr wrote: post #612
erikbye wrote: post #537

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It's funny to me how still so many don't realize you don't get hired for the best positions for being a 10x programmer who excels at hackerrank, you get hired for your proven ability to deliver useful products. Creativity, drive, vision, whatever. Code is a means to an end. If you're the type of programmer who thinks of yourself as just a programmer, and take pride in your secure code, ability to optimize functions a…

> you get hired for your proven ability to (…) No, you get hired for your perceived ability to (…) The world is full of Juliuses, which is a big reason everything sucks. https://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-en.html

ask to view their code. any trivial detail about their code should be answered quickly and coherently, assuming they wrote the code.

in a startup give me unruly pirates over obedient sailors (sj).

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Post by tredre3 »

m000 wrote: post #750
throwaway2037 wrote: post #606

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> way too many kids want to grow up to be ... YouTubers What's wrong with wanting to be a YouTuber? At this point, it's really a very small TV channel. And YouTube essentially allows for an infinite number of these very small TV channels, unlike traditional TV. > way too many kids want to grow up to be influencers You can replace "influencers" with "wanting to be popular". That is as old as time. To me, if you look c…

> To me, if you look closely at (social media) influencers, they are nothing more than people who were popular in high school and managed to extend it for a few years with the use of social media. That's a very superficial similarity. It's one thing for a kid wishing to be popular in their extended social circle, and a very different thing a young adult being convinced that they can "grind" their way to influencer fa…

Your comment applies equally well to aspiring actors. The similarity between actors and influencers is more than superficial.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by realaaa »

well this was bound to happen of course - and I guess Anthropic crossed wires with him a bit after Clawd etc bickering

furthermore Sam Altman desperately needs something cool again at OpenAI

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Post by upmind »

hu3 wrote: post #49
piker wrote: post #3

Did this guy just exit the first one man billion-dollar startup for... less than a billion?

Where do you guys get the 1b exit from? I didn't see numbers yet.

It was reportedly acquired for 30M (source: Twitter), the 1B number comes from people stating it could be worth that much on Twitter in the near future.
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