alt Hacker NewsSeven years of this insufferable brand of "Oh it's so dangerous, I sure hope no one gives us a ton of money and takes us seriously" marketing and people are still falling for it at scale.
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They feared that GPT-2 could break all Spam filters.
And tbh do you prefer companies not taking anything serious?
Opus 4.5 def changed a lot already, GenAI changed a lot.
Certain jobs are gone. Do you think the person who was translating text doesn't deserve to be taken serious?
I haven't written code in a few month now and the quality of these coding agents is not getting worse, they are getting better.
All of this is transformable and we just started. GPT-3 came out in 2020 and public got access to it only 2022.
The last 4 years do not feal like 4 years and we are still progressing.
We have to also ask us as a society what is happening to young people. Even if we accept that we still hire juniors, they themselves have to completly rethink how they learn and how they work.
Every night I am wracked by grief and anxiety that we might deliver too much value to our investors and shareholders. If only someone would create legislation that would mildly inconvenience us while crippling potential competitors!