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Re:Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models by bluerooibos on Friday September 13, 2024 @12:42PM (#41532862)
I've been having a weird timezone issue in my Rails application that I've had a hard time getting my head around. I tried giving o1-preview the relevant code and context it needed to know and it gave answers that seemed to make sense but it still wasn't able to resolve the bug and explain exactly what was going on.

So, it seems like anything that requires some actual thought and problem-solving is tough for it to answer.

I'm sure it's just a matter of time before devs are out of work but it seems like we'll be safe for another few years anyway.

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Re:Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models by vectorhacker on Friday September 13, 2024 @02:11PM (#41533638)
I'm still not convinced that it's not going through approximate reasoning chain retrieval and that's self-triggered to get more reasoning chains that will maximize it's goal. I'm seeing a lot of comments from other SWEs using it for non-trivial tasks in which it fails at but is just trying harder to look like it's problem solving. Even with more context and documentation, it fails to realize details an experienced SWE would pick up quickly.
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