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When talking about the capabilities of a class of tools long term, it makes sense to be general. I think deriving conclusions at all is pretty difficult given how fast everything is moving, but there is some realities we do actually know about how LLMs work and we can talk about that.

Knowing that ChatGPT output good tokens last tuesday but Sonnet didn't does not help us know much about the future of the tools on general.

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> Knowing that ChatGPT output good tokens last tuesday but Sonnet didn't does not help us know much about the future of the tools on general.

Isnt that exactly what is going to help us understand the value these tools bring to end-users, and how to optimize these tools for better future use? None of these models are copy+pastes, they tend to be doing things slightly differently under the hood. How those differences affect results seems like the exact data we would want here

I guess I disagree that the main concern is the differences per each model, rather than the overall technology of LLMs in general. Given how fast it's all changing, I would rather focus on the broader conversation personally. I don't really care if GPT5 is better at benchmarks, I care that LLMs are actually capable of the type of reasoning and productive output that the world currently thinks they are.

Sure, but if you're making a point about LLMs in general, you need to use examples from best-in-class models. Otherwise your examples of how these models fail are meaningless. It would be like complaining about how smartphone cameras are inherently terrible, but all your examples of bad photos aren't labeled with what phone was used to capture. How can anyone infer anything meaningful from that?

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