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Re:My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employee... by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @08:25AM (#44050735)
I feel like we've made barely any progress. It's still good at the things Chat GPT was originally good at, and bad at the things it was bad at. There's some small incremental refinement but it doesn't really represent a qualitative jump like Chat GPT was originally. I don't see AI replacing actual humans without another step jump like that.
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Re:My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employee... by Workaccount2 on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @10:38AM (#44051939)
As a non-programmer non-software engineer, the programs I can write with modern SOTA models are at least 5x larger than the ones GPT-4 could make.

LLMs are like bumpers on bowling lanes. Pro bowlers don't get much utility from them. Total noobs are getting more and more strikes as these "smart" bumpers get better and better at guiding their ball.

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