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OpenAI has no idea how to build web applications. We’ve seen that through the private caching mixup a few days ago, and now they’re restricting content behind client-supplied query string parameters.

There’s going to be a massive leak of users and their respective GPT usage history soon, mark my words.

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Everybody was wondering how they were managing to release stuff this quickly. This is how. It's not that they don't know how to build web applications, it's that building it solidly takes longer, so it's a hacked together kludge of things that breaks whenever you leave the happy path

Building web apps is not that difficult (at least for OpenAI's purposes). They can simply hire talent to fix that.

But then why haven't they? OpenAI is in a fantastic position as a company and has been for a while, they're not struggling for investment money.

If they can hire some devs to make the security problems go away, that's something they should have already been done at least a month ago if not earlier. If the problem is so simple to solve, I'm weirded out by the fact that OpenAI started launching API projects and building web apps without solving the problem first. They're clearly pushing towards ChatGPT as a commercial web platform, and they didn't hire decent web devs yet?

I do think it indicates at least a little bit that they're being very reactive about security, which is a bigger problem than just not having company expertise around a specific domain.

This isn't doing a lot for the "software devs are obsolete, just use ChatGPT" narrative.

Does that narrative actually exist? All I hear is that one dev + GPT4 does the work of many devs.

It's not an educated hot take, but it's definitely out there.

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/chatgpt-will-replace-progra...

which they are. there are several openings that have nothing to do with ML

I wanted to apply there but their job application makes me feel like I’m not special enough to apply/work there.

I’m not sure if it’s intentional but it makes me feel like it’s a competition for who is more elite rather than who is actually good for the job.

The overlap between really good ML/AI researchers and even moderately competent developers is very small right now. Basic web application architecture is as foreign to most ML researchers as transformer architectures are to Rails devs.

I hope someone pulls a Llama. Fingers crossed.

Marked. And I wouldn’t bet against you, either.

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