Comment by hansmayer

> have an actual math degree, alongside a physics degree and a PhD in astrophysics from a strong department

Good for you, I suppose, but all it tells me is that you have probably not developed software professionally - after all, PhDs in astrophysics "from a strong department" rarely end up in commercial software development...

> This sounds like the experience I would mostly expect from a small company adopting Claude

Who said it was a small company? You're making too many assumptions buddy :)

> will genuinely explain a bit because this isn't as trivial and obvious as you make it sound

It is literally the same technology developed in the 1940s mate, adding more GPUs will not magically make it become a god-in-the-box. How fucking innovative can you still claim it to be?

> I think you overestimate the capability of human beings and underestimate the asymptotic capabilities of these systems

Right, remember when LLMs constructed the rockets and modules for landing on the moon, using practically just the logarithmic tables? Or when they invented the vaccine? How about X-rays? Cars? Aeroplanes? You don't? Oh right, me neither! We must be downplaying their nonexistent "capabilities". And the use of word "asymptotic" - is absolutely not conveying the meaning you think it does.

> Do you have like a quote or something that you can point at?

Well, how about the CEOs of companies claiming to be worth 1T and upwards, stating that their products have almost superhuman intelligence? PhDs in the pocket etc?