GLM 5.1 is almost there. These guys should be scared. The valuations these companies have is insanity.

Not in extended sessions, I've noticed. It's good at targeted edits, but not "build a small tool that XYZ".

We’re in an age where, to be possibly a bit rude but blunt, pseudo-intellectuals are obsolete. A pseudo-intellectual prided themselves on being able to efficiently solve closed, man made problems such as leetcode, CTF problems, or even math Olympiad problems. They could do good in school by memorizing a rote technique and applying it to some test. They typically don’t have any real creativity and if you put them to work on a problem you can’t Google or isn’t a fake man made one, they fall apart incredibly fast.

They may as well be the human equivalent to what LLMs currently are.

I do not mourn these people, as they’re usually the most arrogant types. I hope for their sake they adapt.

The absolutely terrible rankings made me lose a bit of faith in humanity.

Agree, I was very surprised to see oil and coal all the way at 20s!

So is Anthropic and co finally admitting they need to make products (and money) and done with the “AGI is tomorrow bro just give us a few more trillion bro”?

Anyone read posts like this and picture someone who doesn’t actually do anything all day besides posture in meetings? Probably with a super inflated title and salary.

I doubt this is what the OP does, but there’s tons of developers like what I described and they seem actively proud at not actually building anything and playing politics all day.

A lot of people had this idea. You’re going to have to take a vague idea to fruition if you want the props you’re looking for.

Can you point me to them? I couldn't find anyone writing a version of that idea back then, I'd be curious to read how others framed it.

What magical AI are you using? That’s not my experience at all.

I use cursor on auto mode almost all the time. I switch to Opus 4.7 when I need I know it will go off the rails. But generally Auto mode "just works".

For my personal work on my own projects, Codex 5.5 because it's cheap at $20 / month and I get in about 10 prompts during my work day (would be more like 40 if I was not focused on work though)

Claude with the 4.7 model is getting pretty good.

there is a significant learning curve to using AI well. learning to stay skeptical and keep your brain on, developing an intuition of how much free reign to give it, writing ironclad specs and design docs and keeping them updated, making work easy to inspect, the tone you use talking to it, using one agent to critique another's work, etc.

basically, AI will produce slop if left unattended. but it's not really its fault.. it's a process failing, like not supervising the interns. using AI the Right Way(tm) is a mental workout, quite a bit slower, but extremely rewarding (ime.)

There’s a lot of bleeding heart people like this. They add variety to the world. The downsides being things you mention, but it’s usually more palatable than someone on the other end of the spectrum.

My idea of the term "bleeding heart" is more like "painfully aware of the plight of people (and often wants to make sure you're also painfully aware of it)", whereas the author's tone struck me as simply charity, and I enjoyed it as such.

Where’s the theory of how the human brain does what it does? Maybe these high dimensional structures don’t have a nice compact “theory”. Trying to fit these systems into a nice compact theory is a very human thing, but not everything works like that.