Everyone victory lapping this as a grand failure should pay attention to the above snippet.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generat...
so yeah, targeted well thought out usecases that are handled well by LLMs will deliver value, but it wont replace developers or anything like that, which is what these people with barely an understanding of the tech's limitations have been claiming.
OpenAI hasnt "internally achieved" AGI. thats what people are calling bullshit on
Software developers commenting on HN and elsewhere routinely focus on majorities, e.g., "80/20" memes, references to Zipf's Law, etc., and conclude without hesitation that if a small minority, say 5%, of software users do not follow a pattern that a large majority, say 95%, follow, the minority can be safely disregarded
Is it really suprising that people reading the MIT report might focus on the 95% instead of the 5%
IMO, the report is mostly about the 5% but as it happens people care about majorities like 95%
Fixes one pain point good. Can’t really be applied to everything.
So just another tool, not a magic bullet like it is being marketed.
On the other hand, its ability to eliminate toilsome work in a variety of areas (it can generate a basic legal contract as well as a basic rails app) is pretty astounding. There are many other industries besides software dev where having tools that can understand and communicate in human language and context could be totally transformative, and they have barely begun to look into it. I think this is where startups should be focused.
LLMs are receiving a level of investment that appears to be based on them being world-changing, and that just doesn’t seem to be working out.
We just received a call at work using the voice of the head of accounting.
I really hope the good of all the other uses offset the harm done.
Like, they used to go ask questions to botters in games to see if they could answer, and bots used to be unable to respond to most questions in a reasonable manner. But today you can't do that, an LLM easily respond to most kind of trick question, well aside from stuff like "how many r are there in strawberry", you need such things to be able to recognize that you are talking to a bot.
Personally, i'm a but frightful about the stability of modern democratic systems under these conditions. Healthy news media industry has been a cornerstone in democracy since their inception.... and i would not call the current new industry very functional... even before AI entered the scene.