causal

I suspect we are approaching a world where this makes sense to do annually. Opus 5.5 is good enough to improve on most codebases, and Opus 7 will no doubt be good enough to improve on that.

1) Youth expect all screens to be touch. They are learning how to use computers in school on touchscreen Chromebooks. Apple knows they must adapt to user expectation.

2) AI is forcing UI evolution that is hard to anticipate, but I suspect will be served well by having more kinds of inputs available in advance.

Kids expect all screens to be touch ready. Chromebooks they learn on in schools are touchscreen. It will be a competitive requirement before long, I think.

I imagine there is immense pressure to announce taking the #1 spot while they still have it. It's probably better than releasing a model that hasn't been properly vetted, but I agree it's annoying.

I'm used to AI agents doing what I tell them to do. Gonna be rough the first time I realize one has direct authority over me...

Game industry is still struggling to find a way to incorporate regular LLMs without suffering catastrophic edge cases. A long way to go before these can do more than fancy tech demo, I think.

Still not the bottleneck.

The install base is worth way more than the software

At best all we can do is make knowledge work cheaper right now. But knowledge work was never the bottleneck behind energy prices, food production, transportation, cargo, etc.

I have been pondering whether I am a fool to continue to go it as an employee in the age of AI.

Hacker News has also served as the ticketing system for more than one angry blogger who needed to get attention from the right engineers

These "Pareto frontier" performance vs price graphs have become very popular and I find them mostly uninformative. Pricing is subjective. You chose the position on the X axis, and which measures to use on the Y Axis.

You are getting downvoted but I have to believe this is at least what some of the executives are thinking, even if it proves to be a complete illusion.

AI investment is also money not spent on salaries. LLM ROI is hotly debated, but it's no secret that companies are diverting money to it regardless.

One big thing: Opus is one of the few models that you can mostly trust not to get prompt hijacked. This can make all the difference between trusted in the office vs. not.