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The default model they are using for Web search is getting capable and is very visible. And now it invites people to keep asking questions.

They are quietly trying to become the chatbot that everyone uses to look things up. That strikes me as an intelligent move - not everything has to be done by an expensive frontier model.

Hypomania is very irritating, and can actually mess up a person's life. It's a neurotic defense mechanism that's opposite to depression

You could write in the language you are most eloquent in and prompt a bot to do a faithful translation.

Post both versions

Except for the power-to-weight problem. Would need very big wings!

Codex generates solid Rust in my experience. Just needs a little style guidance

It was my first taste of Swift, and has destroyed any lingering curiosity I had about it.

Yep, there's always syntax, whether it's 'friendly' or not.

And it still isn't natural language, where you can paraphrase, use synonyms etc. Good job for an LLM

But are they writing? In that specific sense of high prestige communication? Sounds like stolen aura.

Now, code by Gen AI is straightforward in comparison. Coding is not writing poetry, even if the lines also don't reach the right margin

"This post could have been a tweet", and so on.

It's a lovely metaphor for the soulful business of doing something really well, even if there is no 'market' for that kind of quality

I've been getting great results from Codex. Can be a bit slow, but gets there. Writes good Rust, powers through integration test generation.

So (again) we are just sharing anecdata

Heh,I read SF as San Francisco; point remains true. Except the Valley wants to force a future, not describe it

It's not inconsistent to say there's a financial bubble and also genuinely think it's a new era for software development.

There aren't enough programmers to justify the valuations and capex

These are a few well-chosen dependencies for a serious project.

Rust projects can really go bananas on dependencies, partly because it's so easy to include them

So the cognitive reality of being a billionaire is now available to everyone?

But this is one thing that Gen AI is genuinely good at, constructing computer programs under close human supervision. It's also the most profitable (but not enough to justify valuations) Also, it may be a big thing here but its pretty niche in the larger scheme of things

The article is about it encroaching in the domain of human communications. Mass adoption is the only way to justify the incredible financial promises.