It probably won't, too many people just go down the default path with any app, however as an individual it would be nice to have a way to curate my feed
I justify it to myself by saying that even if I'm arguing with a bot, I want to have a counterargument posted for the benefit of the people who are reading the comments
I've been very impressed with GLM 5.3 Flash's performance even without considering cost, but once you factor that in, it's incomparable. Not surprised to see its position on the chart.
I remember talking to a person who worked in marketing Kingsford, which at the time had like over 90% of the marketshare for USA charcoal. They had a marketing budget that was willing to spend money on any ol' stupid idea because they had already won & just wanted to stay on top by getting their name out there.
LLMs produce proper English and offer reasonable follow-ups. Funnily enough, recent models are less good at this, but a good harness and skillset can do wonders.
This is in contrast with my colleagues from xxxxx [0], who appear to be basically immune to learning to read, write, speak, or understand English any reasonably, despite working at a multinational company explicitly requiring so. They also keep insisting on pointless meetings where I get to tell them the exact same things I already told them in writing, except now it is across both of our accents, and through their terrible microphone and internet connection. Mind you, I do listen myself back sometimes, so this is not me being gleefully self-unaware either.
Nothing against them personally, but I truly despise working with these people. They have zero edge over even something like Luna, and will 100% be replaced wholesale once management stops pretending, unless they start using LLMs hard. Something they're unable to do, for the same reasons they're terrible to work with. [1]
And there's no amount of doorman fallacy invocations that will save this. They're cheap, sure, but again, even the cheap models meet or beat them. They've been meat proxies even before LLMs, and the amount of instructions they need to be given will make even the dumbest LLM fly through things. Even though they're hired in swarms, not unlike how people try to save terrible LLMs, that only takes you so far. They don't grow, or grow at glacial speeds. They're cooked.
If you can offload a task to Sonnet, you met them in price, and beat them dozens of times over in quality. Very inhumane way to put it, but it's the reality already. And the bar is rising.
[0] Censored at will because this is not a race thing, but bottom of the barrel HR practices and market realities.
[1] In true terrible management fashion though, it is entirely possible that they'll simply fire the more capable and more expensive people instead, falsely expecting that these other folks will wonderfully use LLMs to just figure things out. Now that will be quite the fireworks show!
What we have is not capitalism. There is way too much gate-keeping regulation for it to be called capitalism.
Just like China does not have communism. They have too much free-market activity and private ownership for it to classify as such.
If you look at China and think "That's not communism", just be aware that they may also look at the west and think "That's not capitalism." Both are right. In fact both systems have converged.
China took the better aspects of communism and capitalism. We took some of the worst aspects of both... Except maybe free speech; but people are working hard on removing that one!
It makes sense; China came out of an era of extreme government control which has been reduced over time (compared to what it was before). In the west, government control has been on the way up and we can't even imagine how bad it can get.
Most people agree it isn't normal. The problem is the people at the levers of power think otherwise. Capitalism as it exists in the US today, with effectively no regulation and deeply intertwined with governance, but in the wrong direction (corporations steering government) is basically the perfect exemplar of what they call a vicious circle in systems thinking. Couple that with the isolationist and individualist principles at the heart of American thinking and you have a perfect storm of runaway variable maximization (aka instability) as increasingly smaller groups of people amass increasing amounts of resources and power.
Wage labor is then the perfect structure to ensure that most resistance from the bottom is suppressed before it can even really start. When you depend on the corporation to succeed for your subsistence (since there is no adequate social safety net to fall back on) taking a principled stance and refusing to destroy great works of literature becomes a highly costly endeavor for most people.
reply