quantumleaper
Joined 6 months ago
Joined 6 months ago
8 months ago, he was (very reasonably) claiming that reliable agents are at least a decade away, but this now goes against the interest of his employer, so the narrative has been changed.
> We used to rely on our traditional methods. We sent 200 fighters because we had a lot of strength, but then 60 got killed. With the help of AI, we learned that it sometimes makes sense to only send 20. We learned more about well-coordinated attacks and deployment of smaller units.
The other quotes and use cases could make sense in terms of using AI jailbreaks to find information more easily, but this one is absolutely ridiculous. Did the clueless researcher just get trolled?
The API cost difference is ~2.5x, probably because xAI has much higher costs to recoup.
For example, so far I haven't seen any evidence that LSP integration improves performance for small models vs using grep via a bash tool.