[gapeslape]

“30 hours of unattended work” is totally vague and it doesn’t mean anything on its own. It - at the very least - highly depends on the amount of tokens you were able to process.

Just to illustrate, say you are running on a slow machine that outputs 1 token per hour. At that speed you would produce approximately one sentence.

[zelphirkalt]

"Slack clone" is also super vague:

(First of all: Why would anyone in their right mind want a Slack clone? Slack is a cancer. The only people who want it are non-technical people, who inflict it upon their employees.)

Is it just a chat with a group or 1on1 chat? Or does it have threads, emojis, voice chat calls, pinning of messages, all the CSS styling (which probably already is 11k lines or more for the real Slack), web hooks/apps?

Also, of course it is just a BS announcement, without honesty, if they don't publish a reproducible setup, that leads to the same outcome they had. It's the equivalent of "But it worked on my machine!" or "scientific" papers that prove anti gravity with superconductors and perpetuum mobile infinite energy, that only worked in a small shed where some supposed physics professor lives.

[mh-]

Has their comment has been edited? A few words later it says it resulted in 11,000 LoC.

> [..] left it unattended for 30 hours, and it built a Slack clone using 11,000 lines of code [..]

[throwaway0123_5]

Their point still stands though? They said the 1 tok/hr example was illustrative only. 11,000 LoC could be generated line-by-line in one shot, taking not much more than 11,000 * avg_tokens_per_line tokens. Or the model could be embedded in an agent and spend a million tokens contemplating every line.