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stingraeyesterday at 11:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

1 and 2 have been achieved.

4 is close, the interface needs some work to allow nontechnical people use it. (claude code)


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fxtentacleyesterday at 11:59 PM

I strongly disagree. I’ve yet to find an AI that can reliably summarise emails, let alone understand nuance or sarcasm. And I just asked ChatGPT 5.2 to describe an Instagram image. It didn’t even get the easily OCR-able text correct. Plus it completely failed to mention anything sports or stadium related. But it was looking at a cliche baseball photo taken by an fan inside the stadium.

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falloutxtoday at 12:03 AM

I dispute 1 & 2 more than 4.

1) Is it actually watching a movie frame by frame or just searching about it and then giving you the answer?

2) Again can it handle very long novels, context windows are limited and it can easily miss something. Where is the proof for this?

4 is probably solved

4) This is more on predictor because this is easy to game. you can create some gibberish code with LLM today that is 10k lines long without issues. Even a non-technical user can do

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