Comment by a2dam
2 hours ago
> For an industry that’s stagnant in progress
Surely you're not talking about the AI industry. Astra was released less than 3 weeks ago, and Fable-level models became public only 6 months ago. The rate of change is dizzying.
I get the perspective from which you're making that statement, but the industry keeps moving its own goalposts.
Change is fast and abundant, and at the same time, it is hilariously more mundane than the dangerous-AGI-in-six-months tune we've been reading daily for years.
I would define it as a quick-moving market, but not nearly moving enough for the fantastic claims they make to justify ever-increasing funding.
AI, if not AGI, has certainly become uniquely dangerous in the past 6 months though. We have a lot of evidence to that effect.
The best case scenario is a situation like Y2K: a ton of people coordinate and work hard to produce no perceptible change, because unlike catastrophe, averting catastrophe feels boring.
>Change is fast and abundant, and at the same time, it is hilariously more mundane than the dangerous-AGI-in-six-months tune we've been reading daily for years.
Absolutely none of this points to “stagnant.” Stagnant is a terrible description of the AI industry.
And yet they have only improved marginally in my use cases since around Opus 4.5.
The harnesses have improved somewhat, but the code produced on large or legacy code bases is still very average and I still see similar mistakes made that I saw back a year ago (although less now that harnesses have become better at steering).
For my use cases, we are definitely on the flatter part of the curve at the moment.
This is wild to me, but to each their own. Mythos-class stuff is insanely better at nearly everything than Opus 4.5 was in my experience.