Besides, can't they just allocate more ChatGPT instances to accelerating their development?

> It's incredible how 50 year-old advice from The Mythical Man-Month are still not being heed.

A lot of advice is that way, which is why it is advice. If following it were easy everyone would just do it all the time, but if it's hard or there are temptations in the other direction, it has to be endlessly repeated.

Plus, there are always those special-snowflake guys who are "that's good advice for you, but for me it's different!"

Also it wouldn't surprise me if Sam Altman's talents aren't in management or successfully running a large organization, but in machiavellian manipulation and maneuvering.

the thought that this might be done one recommendation of ChatGPT has me rolling

think about it, with how much bad advice is out there in certain topics it's guaranteed that ChatGPT will promote common bad advice in many cases

Imho it just shows how relatively simple this technology really is, and nobody will have a moat. The bubble will pop.

Also, google has plenty of (unmatched?) proprietary data and their own money tree to fuel the money furnace.

There is always a daily call if a U.S. startup fails. Soon there will be quadrants and Ikigai Venn diagrams on the internal Slack.

Wait, shouldn't their internal agents be able to do all this work by now?

Don't forget the bleak subtext of all this.

All these engineers working 70 hour weeks for world class sociopaths in some sort of fucked up space race to create a technology that is supposed to make all of them unemployed.