Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015708

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This is quite the understatement. Actually, it's probably the understatement of the year.

"Pretty good, not bad, great use case".

Dude. Fable fucking did what?

It’s on by default, in a way. You can probably prompt these models with “and don’t reason about it, just give me the answer” and probably get a comparably good response without it using reasoning tokens for many things.

B) The other use of context is that it introduces entirely new information via RAG

B will never go away (as others pointed out). A, well that’s just something we’re all going to keep getting surprised at. We’ll barely give it any direction or context and the newer models will simply find the happy path.

The author is kind of suggesting that their context wasn’t really necessary to get the happy output, I think.

Chain of reasoning is a lot of context to guide token generation, but we simply see that newer models don’t need that context to get to the answer. I’m mostly reiterating this because there’s a hot take here, and that is this agentic stuff may be waived away by magic frontier-llm wand , all of a sudden.

It’s gonna be a living breathing world, you see. You’re going to be like “omg, this game even accurately captured the blog posts, woah”.

Edit:

This whole blogging-about-cloud-AI genre is just weird and irresponsible now)

I sincerely never considered it was a whole genre.

One programmer can know if the program is right. So N additional programmers, in that case, can truly be replaced.

I can know the SQL query came back right, I can know the drop down menu looks right, you know what I mean? I can even know if it’s any good. [Person .., ] of Type Y (let’s say Y is “programmer” for now) can be reduced down to 1 in that case (we no longer need the full array of people of a certain type anymore, just the one). Over time we’ll see all different “types” get collapsed down.

So, today, if I think really really really, and I mean, really fucking hard about that “number”, I really really really come up with a number close to 1 (we need one person to type in the instruction at least, maybe two? Maybe three? Definitely not a team … no not that at all).

That means, for everything that we build today, before we even build it, we’ve already mentally replaced people. People be replaced yo, in your mind, in your company, in your reality. That’s it.

It’s a replacement, not a tool. And if you reaaallly think a bit more, you’ll see that it is truly the stupidest possible thing if in your scoping of what needs to be built, you didn’t scope out people. You’d have to be crazy not to scope out people.

Trust me, I never thought we’d get to this point either. I thought it was going to be an “assistant” too.

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The layoff numbers still look “normal “ to us. 75k here, 20k there, all numbers we’ve heard before. It hasn’t even really happened yet, the true numbers should be in millions. I didn’t believe the number “trillion dollar company” until, BAM, here’s a trillion dollar company.

Best we can do is kinda get used to the numbers, like the number 0 on one end (how many people you need), and some number N (in millions) that we won’t need anymore. We’ll just slowly get used to these new numbers.

This shit ain’t no tool.