This. Anybody that thinks AI isn’t useful is a complete idiot. LLMs are game changing for me.
I wouldn’t call them idiots, LLMs aren’t useful for everything.
For those doing work, whether personal or professional where they
would benefit, I’d say ignorant is a better word.
A whole lot of smart tech people used ChatGPT a year or two ago and have never touched it since. As you know if you use current models, the gains in the last 6 months have really massively transformed the usefulness.
Claude Code wasn’t even released
6 months ago (it was 5!), things are moving faster in this space than any computing technology I’ve ever witnessed.
GPT-5 is probably launching in a couple of hours and will change the interaction model again to minimize the need to manually choose models for most average people.
OpenAI is on track for
1 billion users by the end of the year and they have a planned path to profit around ~2029. It’s dubious whether that will be successful, will they retain their massive consumer advantage, will they execute on that plan perfectly etc. but if they do they’re going to be a massive concentration of value since they have so much mind share. Like, probably top 10 company in tech by revenue.
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I get not wanting to use these tools from a privacy perspective and also a utility one – it’s tempting to want to just shut off technology as a whole for a while, I do it too – but with all respect to the people who choose not to use it, writing it off as a mere hype cycle or fad is ludicrous.
If you’re interested in this field you must stay current and update your domain knowledge in a pretty substantial way every 2-3 months, otherwise your opinions are ossified and mostly just noise that others have to wade through.
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Private Cloud Compute is a clever implementation but consumers at least right now won’t value it. That could change down the road, but I think it’ll be similar to how many people don’t use Google or Meta products. They’re out there, but they aren’t the majority.
I actually
do think Apple has a long-term strategy now but it’s centered around a hardware product we won’t see for 5-7 years. That’s a long time to wait for a high-demand researcher interested in pursuing research that requires immense scale and collaboration with others at their level which Apple doesn’t offer at the moment.