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Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Does he explain why he thinks OpenAI is the best way to "change the world". I really think he's wrong there. He's one person in a 3000 person organisation vs this product that has insane traction right now and has companies willing to purchase it for 8-9 digits. This feels worse for the Bun JS acquisition because you know that it likely won't be worked on seriously again by him unlike Bun.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

#992

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I think it was obvious, yet nobody seemed to have released a version people could actually easily use. The feature set is pretty simple: - Agents that can write their own tools. - Agents that can write their own skills. - Agents that can chat via standard chat apps. - Agents that can install and use cli software. - Agents that can have a bit of state on disk.

Aren't all of these things you can do with Claude Code? Granted, the chat app one is novel, but you could ask Claude Code to set that up.

Thats basically what this guy did. He vibe coded a chat interface.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Obviously, all the people that disagree with your framing and see AI as the largest possible boost to mankind, giving us more assistance than ever. From their standpoint, it's all the negativity that seems crazy. If you were against that , you'd have to have something wrong with you, in their view. Hopefully most people can see both sides, though. And realize that in the end, probably the benefits will be slow but st…

Why do you keep saying "in their view"?

There is only reality. Reality is it's a form of intelligence, one that will relentlessly improve. The base form of problem solving is identical to humans, statistical inference, the only thing left is raw intelligence/capability.

You don't get to have a world where it's smarter and doesn't kill us all, that's not reality. Outcompeted is extinction.

There's no "view" to be had.

On the way to killing us all there sure will be a lot of cool tech. That's not a view, that's a fact too. And then we will all die.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

#996

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Imo Openclaw type AI has the most potential to benefit humans (automating drudgery while I own my data as opposed to creating gross simalcrums of human creativity). I suppose it's bad for human personal assistants, but I wouldn't pay for one of those regardless.

Please for the love of god, try to extrapolate.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

#998

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Would you feel comfortable flying on an airplane where the programmers don’t care about secure code, correctness, or the ability to reason about and optimize algorithms—where “good enough” is the philosophy? Most people intuitively say no, because in safety-critical and large-scale systems, engineering rigor isn’t optional. Software may look intangible, but when it runs aircraft, banking systems, or global platforms,…

Do you think the people writing the code that operates aircraft care about code quality? After the boeing incident I do not.

Which Boeing incident? The 737 Max was a correct implementation of bad requirements -- there's no indication of a code quality problem here. Starliner definitely had more indications of code issues, but was not an aircraft.
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