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by Trufa 312 days ago
Yeah, when it becomes cool to be anti AI or anti anything in HN for that matter, the takes start becoming ridiculous, if you just think back a couple of years, or even months ago and where we're now and you can't see it, I guess you're just dead set on dying on that hill.
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I'm extremely pro AI, it's what I work on all day for a living now, and I don't see how you can deny there is some justification for people being so cynical.

This is not the happy path for gpt-5.

The table in the model card where every model in the current drop down somehow maps to one of the 6 variants of gpt-5 is not where most people thought we would be today.

The expectation was consolidation on a highly performant model, more multimodal improvements, etc.

This is not terrible, but I don't think anyone who's an "accelerationist" is looking at this as a win.

Update after some testing: This feels like gpt-4.1o and gpt-o4-pro got released and wrapped up under a single model identifier.

4 years ago people were amazed when you could get GPT-3 to make 4-chan greentexts. Now people are unimpressed when GPT-5 codes a working language learning app from scratch in 2 minutes.
Oh a working language learning app? Like one of the hundreds that have been shown on HN in the past 3 years? But only demonstrated to be some generic single word translation game?
Yeah except I already could do the same with Qwen-coder-30b on my laptop a week ago.