alt Hacker NewsI have zero sense of this myself, am just curious, and not confident anyone really knows, but: I get that its a big deal for software developers when each new model comes out, because its perceived (correctly or not) as the next big boost for their productivity, but what about everyone else who is not a coder? Is there big reactions there to newer models? I don't know a single person who is not a engineer that would be able to tell me if "Astra" or "Opus" are Anthropic things or an OpenAI things respectively, much less when and what the big new version is for any of them. Does this play out for others? Or am I just in my own bubble for some reason?
What does average, non-computer Joe or Jane think when the next big model comes out? "My emails are going to be so much better now, I better stay subscribed"? "I can't wait to see how well it answers my questions"?
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I am a software developer and I don't see a huge boost since many months.
Actually I see very varying results in my work.
Sometimes I can let an AI refactor an entire codebase and then (in the same codebase) it generates absolute shitcode.
One more anecdote: People at our company are very excited for integration of existing industry specific tools and processes.
Some of them do require frontier models but many can do with localish models. Some of these processes (in our industry) are also not really limited by software at all but by the speed heavy machinery can be operated and/or manufactured and/or transported.
I'm certain LLMs are going to continue rapid growth even there but it may be an ideal field for have lesser models work for longer if it saves money in the end.
Of course who knows in the end. I'm certain there is a high chance of this being entirely wrong