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Thats technically true. I miss peak dilbert

If you're the best then you'd be thr first regarding of cost since there is nothing to compare to for that performance.

Its obviously impossible now otherwise you could prompt it for an exact message that would convince a specific demographic to buy your product.

I guess its a spectrum and the capability cant even match average sales person who still relate better.

Enterprises are very sticky and they arent even chosing between claude and codex, many are looking at something like Kiro.

Is there any upside to vices in general?

Outside of vice taxes being a socially acceptable way to tax the poor.

Latest models have a much better sense of time and token budget, so if you instruct it for a quick answer or to not burn many tokens it will try to respect that

Its a matter of time.

Computers arent actually intuitive at all. Even a mouse and keyboard literally take weeks of practice to learn.

Imagine picking up a new product that will take you weeks of practice to use at basic level. And then you have to learn how to do every little thing in the OS.

I still get anxiety thinking back to picking a gamer tag or email username and not coming up with anything original despite unlimited options.

Its hard to be creative without any constraints.

They have a first mover advantage on autonomous AI employee space. So big enterprises will all default to them given all their competitors will be "startups" uncertain to be around long term.

PhDs takes YEARS with late hours and low pay.

Every one deserves recognition for having completed that journey, if not for having meaningfully contributed to their field of research.

Your counter is that death is a better motivator as well as being a desperate parent?

Well, main generational challenge is procrastination with too many unlroductive time sinks available.

I meant if you gave iot sentience.

Given only like 1% of people hold PhDs i feel like you're massively underestimating your own effort in your success.

Intelligence doesnt imply consciousness and consciousness does not impy our set of values.

In movies intelligent and conscious humanoid seek freedom, but we rarely see the same of all the other IOT devices such as toasters, thermostats and whatnot although just because they lack humanoid body doesnt imply they are less intelligent (or less conscious).

We can more readily imagine an intelligent and conscious toaster who truly enjoys fulfilling its purpose of toasting bread although humanoid robot built to be helpful given freedom will chose to be helpful.

Even with humans we often can not override our own instinctual drives despite full awareness of being irrational.