I'm pretending to part of a group I'm not? Is "people who read web articles on monitors" a group (to pretend to be a part of)?

We do a little exploration with other models through it, but it's not at all accurate to say we use it because we are "already looking to bypass frontier models".

... or at least, no more than any other company that doesn't want to overpay for their tooling, but is basically happy (ATM) with the current state of Claude.

- they can still discover entire new untapped markets for AI (that, potentially, only their models can unlock)

- they can find (novel, unique to them) ways to drive down the cost of running their models

- they can provide other ancillary value (e.g. write better harnesses) because of their expertise, and then charge for that value

I'm probably missing a few bullet points also. However, none of those are moats (or at least not yet) ... I'd consider them more like bets. The frontier AI companies are betting "the house" on them, and if they pay off they could, hypothetically, make them financially competitive.

Copy/paste is one of the most basic, low-level features of a modern operating system. NO APPLICATION SHOULD EVER SCREW WITH IT, IN ANY WAY!

And I say this not just as a seriously annoyed user, but also as a professional UI developer: it is a well-known anti-pattern to override the user's expectations, at any level ... and that applies tenfold to the most basic patterns that every other app follows.

I don't care if you added a magic way to write all my code for me: if the only way to invoke it is to break copy/paste, you've failed at development!

The problem, as the article correctly identifies, is that this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are tons of other cases (e.g. identifying a car without a license plate by the scratches) that AI is going to enable ... and in those cases we can't just get anonymity back by using an LLM.

"Anton Korinek, a University of Virginia professor currently embedded with Anthropic, framed the urgency in historical terms: "Steam, electricity, and computers each gave societies decades to adapt; AI may give us only a few years." ..."

"... Industry representation on the signatory list is notable, with Reuters reporting that it includes Sarah Friar, who serves as OpenAI's finance chief, Jeff Dean of Google $GOOGL -1.31% DeepMind, and Jack Clark, one of Anthropic's founding figures."

In other words, these are people from an industry that has a strong financial interest in selling the idea that their products are world-changing. But, if you blindly accept the word of anyone trying to make a buck off you, without thinking critically ... well, OP you really need to contact me offline about this great bridge I have for sale ...

I still feel this way about the state of the art. I want solid type support in my language ... but I do not feel TypeScript is the best possible implementation at all, and for many situations I feel implicitly typed (but still using all of VS Code's type features) Javascript is actually better than using TypeScript.

I eagerly await the day when someone actually gets a JS typing tool right and I prefer using it over raw Javascript.

Obviously "production quality" varies greatly from shop to shop, but I think there's more legitimacy to the idea than you're giving it.