Tell me you haven't actually used the latest AI without telling me you haven't.

The difference between current professional AI and that of just 3 months ago is scary. I'm trained as a computer scientist and so are my friends, and some of our kids. We have been busy with machine learning and AI for quite some time - not very impressed until now. The jump in ability over the last three months is *scary*. And if you're in denial, feel free. The tsunami is coming whether you like it or not.

I tested the first image generators. They were horrible. If I wanted a sailing vessel, I got a floating rock with 1 mast and some weird spider web of ropes. If I was lucky I got water.

Now? You can get a video of a sailing vessel morphing into the Nautilus, if you want.

For coding LLMs the same thing. Two years ago it messed up my code. 3 weeks ago I fed the code it messed up to Codex 5.3 with the question to check the issue and fix it. It fixed my issues in one minute, ran the code, detected an issue in the playback of sound, checked the binary file. Used the library to doublecheck, then detected 4 bugs in the library that it then fixed. Took me all of 3 minutes. Last year I spent a day trying to fix it and gave up. They were all easy to see when pointed out but hard to detect when you don't know them. Off by one errors that only popped up in special circumstances, duplicate code in the wrong place, etc.

Maybe you've paid "attention to this space". What you perhaps didn't do, was buy a computer that can run the LLMs locally and test them - like I did. You don't even need to do that. Just get Visual Studio Code, install Continue, and buy some credits for the Claude API and OpenAI API and compare the latest models. Or use Qwen Code from Ali Baba. Last year that didn't work very well. This year is very different.

Also note that people with hostile prompting get nowhere. It's not the AI at that point, it's you. Let it cut up the task in small pieces, maintain a task list, and a readme.md to document its solutions, and you will see a huge improvement in how things work. Search for ATLAS Framework on Youtube. Correct prompts and correct usage of the AIs strengths make an incredible difference.

Well, here's some figures: Google reports a 10% productivity increase over it's entire developer workforce, worldwide, after introduction of AI. Research over a few hundred companies shows that for teams with 75%-100% AI usage in their work, productivity about doubles and code quality stays the same or increases (not a huge increase). Productivity x 2 = Humans / 2.

And this is based on last years AI. The AI that I tested 3 months ago is so much worse than the current one it's not even funny. They crossed the threshold from "meh, not worth it" to "OMG I'm being passed left right and center" 2 months ago. People seem to think AI moves yearly. It does not. It moves weekly right now.

As a passenger I completely agree. But most software development isn't for planes, and my response was mainly to argue that OpenAI did in fact create a useful product. Just not for every use case in existence, like flying a plane.

Caveat: when passengers and pilots are incapacitated or unresponsive, I'd much rather have an automated system take over and do its best to land the plane than die from lack of oxygen right before flying into a mountain, or crashing into a mountain because the pilot is depressed. And the smarter it is, the better it can do that. Safeguards would be required, of course, such as having to contact a ground base to ask for permission first.

I'm not a pilot, so obviously we don't use it for that. Yes, in the context of flying i'm sure we can all agree that vibecoding the application is probably not possible - yet. And you certainly cannot run an AI instead. But we were talking about whether OpenAI has delivered a useful product. And in that case the answer is yes - in spades. My productivity on certain tasks is at least 2x and sometimes 10x-100x higher. On the whole at least 2x over all activities.

Especially in software development AI is going to cut like a scythe through most developer jobs.

Let's take Salesforce as an example. That ain't rocket science, it's a rather basic application that was just cheaper to rent than to build but doesn't even work all that well for European companies to begin with. With AI we can build replacements for the parts we need, and make them much better (what Salesforce never gets right are the naming rules in Europe for people, for instance). Administrative systems are normally pretty basic: lots of data entry screens and some processes. These can be automated very easy by AI. Add in a standard business rule server, and you can increase the efficiency even more.

All that development work will be eaten by AI because it can build a basic prototype in a day, and interact with the users to collect good feedback instead of stupid feedback, and then re-iterate with the developer until it is really, really good. Takes about a month for a large enterprise system, I'd say judging from my experience with the latest models.

But I've stopped trying to convince people: there ain't room enough in this space for everyone, and every developer who doesn't get the message is one less mouth to compete with a few months from now.

He paid good money to Trump and also supported him. And as we all know, good people support Trump and everyone else is a traitor and a criminal.

You do you. My whole department is switching to AI this month. The latest models (and with latest i mean those of last week, not older) are very, very good. Not all the time, but they're ready for production. Also better at coding and developing than most humans.

People, those mountains in the distance? They're not mountains.

Context windows make a big difference both in how well it can keep a straight line and also in how much memory and processing power you need. On my PC with 24GB GPU and 64GB ddr5 I can run reasonably effective models (up to 12GB) with a 60K context window. That's good enough for small stuff.

Codex 5.3 can do 230K, can even go much higher when using the API, and auto compacts the token window. That makes a big difference.

What also helps is to maintain a task list, tell it to split up any assignment and put it on that list, only work on tasks on the list, and document the result on that list as well. That way you get a more persistent memory for what it did, and also it only needs to save the context for the task at hand.

Three weeks ago I shifted to using AI for a minor coding task. This week I converted 30GB of geodata from 5 sources into a mountain layer for a game map at 10 meter resolution. Today I used it full time to compare 16 laws to an architecture document to see if I missed something.

3 months ago none of this was really easy. This month it found 4 python bugs in a library I was using, created a fix, tested the fix, committed it, synced it and drafted the PR (which I checked and yes the whole thing was good).

I'm amazed and frankly, a bit intimidated.

No, he's actively cheering for fascism and genocide. In that view, anything that makes it harder to kill the opposition is a bad thing.

He's basically one of the Twitter morons referred to.

I blame your parents, actually, for how you turned out.

Psychosis and other mental diseases are just that: diseases. We're finding more and more evidence that quite a few are caused by viral interactions with the brains, or the remnants of diseases that the immune system couldn't completely clear, or an immune system responding incorrectly to a virus.

Which is a thing in the Netherlands, because we have rules against casinos feeding addictions to make a quick buck, just as barkeepers are liable for the damage when they give obviously drunk people more liquor.

Norway can't, but I'm sure North Korea comes pretty close.

drugs, guns, prostitution...

Really strange that people have to ask permission for those when in the USA these are all allowed everywhere... oh no they don't. In fact, Norway is more permissive than the USA wrt real freedom, which is also the freedom of other people from the effects of your stupidity.

Do I really want to send my kids to a school where yours is taking his AR15 to class today because he got turned down by a girl? That's not freedom, that's living in fear.

Like everywhere, you don't get the coins back, but the value at the time they're impounded.