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And what do you think investors in OAI et al are expecting?

Spot on Sir

Making good software isn’t what matters in most workplaces - making software that works (even if you have taped over the cracks) is.

It’s always been this way in toxic workplaces - LLM’s amplify this.

As someone who is more involved in shaping the product direction rather than engineering what composes the product - I will readily admit many product people are utterly, utterly clueless.

Most people have no clue the craftsmanship, work etc it takes to create a great product. LLMs are not going to change this, in fact they serve as a distraction.

I’m not a SWE so I gain nothing by being bearish on the contributions of LLMs to the real economy ;)

AI first of all is not a technology.

Can people get their words straight before typing?

They are focused on reducing costs in order to survive. Pure and simple.

Alphabet / Google doesn’t have that issue. OAI and other money losing firms do.

Yep. Let’s see the projects and more importantly the incremental returns…

There’s a weird thing going on - I can see value in using LLM’s to put something together so you can see it rather than investing time to do it properly initially.

But to just copy, paste and move on… terrible.

You are correct. I wouldn’t waste your time arguing with people who don’t get it.

Those people don’t tend to have a good understanding of what most humans like and why they like stuff like music.

I wonder why the head honchos of the music industry haven’t come together and put together an alternative to Spotify’s increasingly AI-slop platform

Nah

Auto tune is not what makes a song a hit. What make a song a hit is the fact that the person who injected the use of auto tune has taste.

This seems to fly over the heads of many. art is about taste.

Looks like OAI is really desperate to find its place in the world that matches up to investor expectations of future cash flows.

How long till the investors finally start to believe it ain’t happening?