Comment by the8472
5 hours ago
"It's like if a squirrel started playing chess and instead of "holy shit this squirrel can play chess!" most people responded with "But his elo rating sucks""
5 hours ago
"It's like if a squirrel started playing chess and instead of "holy shit this squirrel can play chess!" most people responded with "But his elo rating sucks""
It's more like "We were promised, over and over again, that the squirrel would be autonomous grand master level. We spent insane amounts of money, labour, and opportunity costs of human progress on this. Now, here's a very expensive squirrel, that still needs guidance from a human grandmaster, and most of it's moves are just replications of existing games. Oh, it also can't move the pieces by itself, so it depends on Piece Mover library."
"The squirrel can do my job and more? It can do five years of my work in a month? For only $20k? Pssh, but I bet it copied someone's homework."
Developer salaries are about to tank.
This is the end of the line. People are just in denial.
Soon companies will hire the squirrel instead of you. And the squirrel will transform into enormous infrastructure we can't afford ourselves.
"One mega squirrel to implement your own operating system overnight. Just $100k."
It's going to be out of the reach of humans / ICs soon. Purely industrial. And all innovation will accrue to the capital holders.
Open weights models are our only hope of keeping a foot in the door.
I'm not trying to get coached in chess by the squirrel for 200 per month though.
But the Squirrel is only playing chess because someone stuffed the pieces with food and it has learned that the only way to release it is by moving them around in some weird patterns.