Just pointing out that it’s foolish to think anyone in the position is even remotely thinking about anyone but themselves.

You have no frame of context to understand his intent or legitimate worries.

The only applicable perspectives are to trust or apply logic. It is foolish to trust someone you don’t know who stands to benefit from lying to you.

Logic dictates that given the ungodly sum of money he stands to gain, he will lie to everyone who will listen.

My son is 12, he doesn't care, I've told him how LLMs work, he's used claude, he's not convinced that AI changes things that much and frankly, so am I.

The work was always to build, thoughtfully, carefully, with vision, and ingenuity. That hasn't gone away.

They are all gaming these benchmarks, it is perfectly reasonable not to trust any of them.

The rest of us have to clean up and maintain the slop and it's depressing as hell.

The real issue here is the death of critical thinking.

I don't need a model that can invent new mathematics. I need something that is fast, cheap, and consistent. Give me that and I can build and scale.

More likely though, it's AGI because they need to hold some claim to differentiate from competitors who are beating them in price and will launch something bigger next month.