Comment by Nextgrid
20 days ago
> At a major semiconductor manufacturer, agents reduced chip optimization work from six weeks to one day.
I call BS right there. If you can actually do that, you’d spin up a “chip optimization” consultancy and pocket the massive efficiency gain, not sell model access at a couple bucks per million-tokens.
There should be a massive “caveats and terms apply” on that quote.
So far the AI productivity gains have been all bark and no bite. I’ll believe when I see either faster product development, higher quality or lower prices (which indeed happened with other technological breakthroughs, whether the printing press or the loom) - if anything, software quality is going down suggesting we aren’t there yet.
I'm willing to bet "chip optimization work" doesn't mean "the work required to optimize a chip", but "some work tasks performed as part of chip optimization". Basically they sped up some unknown subset of the work from six weeks to one day. Which could be big or could be negligible
They've already changed the wording to
Make of that what you will.
> ChatGPT, we have been optimizing production work for six weeks. <uploads some random documents that management team has uploaded to SharePoint, most of them generated by LLMs>. Finalize this optimization work.
> <ChatGPT spits out another document and claims that production work is now optimal>
This is likely similar to the tweet from the google engineer. AI coded their solution in a matter of days…after a year of planning prior.
MAybe the agent returned "nope, can't be optimized any more".
It's only time #50952 that scam altman has lied. He's in a race right now with Elon and Trump to see who can lie hardest and most often.