alt Hacker NewsGood enough? There's no such thing.
People said that "good enough" about GPT-4. Now you say that about Claude Opus 4.5. How long before the treadmill turns, and the very same Opus 4.5 becomes "the bare minimum" - the least capable AI you would actually consider using for simple and unimportant tasks?
We have miles and miles of AI advancements ahead of us. The end of that road isn't "good enough". It's "too powerful to be survivable".
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I can build fully functional applications without writing a single line of code with Claude. In my free time. On a weekend. I'm going to release one of them pretty soon. A toddler being able to do this instead of an industry veteran isn't that compelling. Avoiding the few pitfalls of the LLM getting stuck and taking a while to get out isn't that valuable.
>Good enough? There's no such thing.
This is just wrong. Maybe you can't imagine good enough, I can. And I think "better" is going to start getting diminishing returns as the velocity of improvements I expect to slow and the value of improvements are going to become less meaningful. The "cost" of a LLM making mistakes is already pretty low, cutting it in half is better, sure, but it's so low already I don't particularly care if it gets some multiple more rare.
Elon will boil the oceans if it means not having to deal with poor people.