Comment by reticulates

Even benchmark improvements over Sol are not that great (and they certainly tried). If we exclude the weird ARC-AGI situation.

> How? Coding capabilities keep improving, there is no break

So? The upper end of the S-curve is also a line that still rises.

feels and hype

We're in interesting times. Trust in AI CEOs, just as an example, is likely about zero and so, unsurprisingly, people are increasingly skeptical of anything they say, question their motives, the timing of their announcements… Huge amounts of capital (perhaps entire economies?) are hanging in the balance.

(Even when I see a number of comments I disagree with, I get at least a sense somewhat of the HN Zeitgeist, FWIW.)

I‘m using Sol all day every day. It’s on average doing better than Astra at what I need it to do. Astra is like an absent minded professor - gives good direct responses, but too inconsistent and forgetful for my codebase.

How long would it take for a team of 60 to replicate the software that operates a neobank?

Serious question - I want serious responses pls ty.

Let me ask you, have you noticed that all the major labs are releasing models very similar in gains and performance? How do you explain that other than juicing the max out of the current architecture and processes.

The one where it’s infeasible that a company that needs to live up to a valuation of like 5% of US GDP but is still burning cash and has no moat would willingly decide to slow down the pace of development of their core technology

Unless you’re making 3D models of apartments and oneshotting trivial games, I‘m not convinced Astra writes better code than Sol. I‘m way more often disappointed about Astra forgetting some aspect that Sol just nails.

How long would it take for a team of 60 to replicate the software that operates a neobank? Serious question - I want serious responses pls ty.