Opus like the audio codec?
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dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 20 hours agoLodeMike, I’m curious about something. What’s the latest set of AI models and tools you’ve used personally? Have you used Opus 4.5 or 4.6, for instance?
I am not disagreeing with the points you’ve made, but it’s been my experience that the increase in capabilities over the last six months has been so rapid that it’s hard to realistically evaluate what the current frontier models are capable of unless you’ve uused them meaningfully and with some frequency.
I’d welcome your perspective.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
criss_cross@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not OP but I use these on the regular.
I’d still agree with the OP that there are hard limits to what these can do. I’ve gotten Claude stuck in loops before on removing unrelated code, then adding it back, then removing it again hoping it’ll fix something.
And OP is still correct. At the heart of all of this it’s “given input x guess the probability of response Y”. Even frontier models don’t think. They can output tokens to call tools to try and get more input x but it’s still a best guess.
You can also give them too much context and get “context rot” which makes their output absolutely horrible too. I think cursor had a problem with that where too many Claude skills caused cursor to hallucinate and go nuts.
dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
All valid points.
However, the actual capabilities of the AIs might not matter with respect to job displacement, since the people making the hiring decisions are absorbing the marketing hype but not using the tools.
Even if folks are still hired, they might experience second order effects like increased job stress and burnout: fortune.com/…/ai-future-of-work-white-collar-empl…
I’m rather glad that I’m reaching the end of my career and not trying to break into the market as a junior software engineer.