[reilly3000]

I fear there this reveals something else - not about the nature of models but of our community. The intro of the article seemed to affirm the importance of HN as a tastemaker, potentially influencing decision-makers on the scale of billions or trillions. For the 15 or so years I’ve been hanging around here, that only feels like mild hyperbole… a good LaunchHN can reshape the future, right?

It made me realize that for this time around, we’re not at the center anymore. The future of LLMs is the stuff of nations and AIG is what the labs actually care about. They aren’t pelicanmaxxing just as much as they really aren’t revenue/margin/marketing maxing. They just want our attention and ideas so they can show growth and acquire FLOPS.

The apparent fact that they aren’t catering to this community (who frankly decides what goes and stays in prod) leaves me feeling a bit defeated somehow. And also awesome?! Like there is a culture here that runs deeper than any technology and it has fought hard to maintain its identity. Props to dang and all for keeping the astroturfing so imperceptible that I can say this.

In any case, a great little piece of citizen-science dcastm. Lmk if there is a way I can chip in towards token costs.