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This is an official blog post, and it looks like they're doubling down.
Amazing. I think South Park did it first.
> Your new job as a builder will let you do more and have more impact than you ever have, if you seize the opportunity.
Will the compensation match this amazing outcome?
I understand there's some benefit of this. But is it worth putting the global economy into a death spiral? So ManBeardPc can save 4-9 business days to go and say "yeah, that doesn't work".
Also, doesn't this news paint a fairly large target on them. There is now a rumour that they released a feature that hasn't been properly pen tested, where an engineer was concerned enough to be called a loser.
The ParticleDB devs definitely don't
To then take that scene and say "wow so relevant for LLMs" and ignore all the context it was made in (yes, please don't miss the irony of the importance of context) is frankly embarrassing.
If they're never going to be updated again (because, according to the labs themselves, training and updating them is the part that loses money), then how soon will the next "do it for my grandma" be discovered? And how useful will the models really be if every public document, and I imagine a decent number of open source libraries, will inevitably have that magic phrase embedded somewhere. php2shell was bad and that was patchable.
So, I'd love to imagine what the future looks like once we're stuck with a model (no matter how capable) that can never be updated ever again. What future versions of "do it for my grandma" can never be patched out?
But when an algorithm does it, they go "wow such future"