alvis

God save the juniors...

The vision of submitting a feature request and receiving a ready-to-review PR is equally compelling and horrifying from the standpoint of strategy management.

Like Anthropic and most big tech companies, they don't want to show off the best until they need to. They used to stockpile some cool features, and they have time to think about their strategy. But now I feel like they are in a rush to show off everything and I'm worried whether the management has time to think about the big picture.

I used to work for a bank and the legal team used to ping us to make tiny changes to the app for compliance related issues. Now they can fix themselves. I think they’d be very proud and happy

If codex can analyze the whole code base, I can’t see why not? I can even imagine one can set up a CI task that any committed code must pass all sort of legal/data protection requirements too

Is it surprising? Hmm perhaps nope. But is it better than cursor etc? Hmm perhaps it’s a wrong question.

Feels like codex is for product managers to fix bugs without touching any developer resources. Then it’s insanely surprising!

20+ years dev here, started coding with AI when Javis was still a thing (before it became Jasper, and way before Copilot or ChatGPT).

Back then, Javis wasn’t built for code, but it was a surprisingly great coding companion. Yes. It only gave you 80% working code, but because you had to get your hands dirty, you actually understand what was happening. It didn't give me 10x but I'm happy with 2x with good understanding on what's going on.

Fast-forward to now: Copilot, Cursor, roo code, windsurf and the rest are shockingly good at output, but sometimes the more fluent the AI, the sneakier the bugs. They hand you big chunks of code, and I bet most of us don't have a clear picture of what's going on at ground 0 but just an overall idea. It's just too tempting to blindly "accept all" the changes.

It’s still the old wisdom — good devs are the ones not getting paged at 3am to fix bugs. I'm with the OP. I'm more happy with my 2x than waking up at 3am.

Many years back, it was a thing that TfL actively encouraged developers to use their data, and I was lucky to be a winner of a notional campaign thanks to that.

But now, the headwinds apparently have changed. Sad :(

AI is capable of so much more than just scanning and diagnosing diseases. If there’s someone with the reach to make an impact, highlight how AI can drastically reduce admin tasks as well.

If you’ve got friends working in the NHS, you’ve probably heard their biggest frustration: the system is painfully slow and stupid!!!

I think team is a good add to strength the product vision. I just hope it can connect to Notion so that we don't need to re import all the data

Finally! But with so many alternatives already out there such as https://gptstore.ai, what do you expect the official one can do more?

At this point, after almost 3 days of non-stop drama, and we still have no clue what has happened to a 700 employees company under million of people watching. Regardless the outcome, the art of keeping secrets at OpenAI is truly far beyond human capability!

& the most drastic thing is that Ilya says he regrets what he has done and undersign the public statement.

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028

By the end of the week is over-optimistic. Foe the last 3 days feels like million year. I bet the company will be gone by the time Emmett Shear wakes up

Also Emmett Shear said on his statement

`Before I took the job, I checked on the reasoning behind the change. The board did not remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that. I'm not crazy enough to take this job without board support for commercializing our awesome models.`

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1726526112019382275

Regardless it's a tragic for staff remaining in OpenAI...

The new Open AI CEO Emmett Shear just released a long statement and he says one of his top 30-day plan is to `Hire an independent investigator to dig into the entire process leading up to this point and generate a full report`

https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1726526112019382275

He adds even more drama lol

And by seeing how Satya praise it ``` We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap ... We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team ```

You know OpenAI is now overly done. I'd say it's now in archive.

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726509045803336122

Leadership - To stay top of the game, you can't just rely on brunch of engineers, but a person/team to pull everything into shape. Seeing how many employees are leaving for sama, you get the sense.

Indeed. Sutskever should have been able to foresee the move. It's just not hard to see Altman will just get another place to continue what he has done in OpenAI. Maybe his hope is he can slow him down like a year or so? But now by joining MS, it's effectively no much difference.

So Sam & Greg can stay focus on their work rather than getting distracted by all the lawsuits. It isn’t a bad thing. Just not sure how they can get they want under the corporate culture?

Not sure about the IP, but the team can get whatever they have access in the past. It certainly speed up the restart process

It’s really safe to say the big loser is OpenAI. Microsoft is effectively getting the team under their own overnight

it's hardly believed that Alman was fired by his stand on commercialisation

The thread seems to be got picked up only last month given the timestamps of majority of comments and reposts were made. If the board decided to make an investigation, it'd be the timing to fire Altman.

Not long ago, Ed Newton-Rex of Stability AI was also kinda forced to resign over the company's view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products. AI really causes us to face many reality :/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67446000

& Just not long ago, Ed Newton-Rex of Stability AI was kinda forced to resign over the company's view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67446000

Remember that Greg Brockman is a co-founder of OpenAI, and like Sam Altman, he is a main driving force behind the scene. Now both are gone. There must be something really really seriously wrong.

I have been utilising GPT to create my own app, and now openAI wants to be the only app that matters. I’m not sure whether I should be excited or not :/

Better ask, how to elect officials who are not a dumb to procure a $125M HR product for a 1.15M population city. i.e. a >$100 product for every resident in the city?

I bet if you fund a startup for $1M, they'll deliver a way better product than the $125M one!

Who hasn't been hurted by threads? lol

In a way, the drama at twitter helped meta to successfully relaunch threads. Without musk, there is no mastodon and no threads