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I'm not singling out the author or his company, but it's really hard to tell if this article is taking itself seriously, much in the same way that I've seen a group of 19 year old "AI scientists" talk about how everything will be automated in five years.

Let's just take it on its face. OpenAI, the most "powerful" foundation model has a rolling release of every 4-5 months. I've witnessed loss of "reasoning" and outright ignoring of instructions in some cases using the latest models unless you push some things through the functions parameter, which will probably break a lot of prompts, especially the agentic ones. Imagine that, there's no free lunch with a fine tune. You're pretty much at the mercy of a company you're basing your business on not breaking your shit every 5 months. And with how they handled deprecating davinci, it'll keep happening.

In other news, a lot of the VC cash that is flying around right now and is a bit deluded and chasing some vague concept of "AGI" that's coming soon(tm), but given typical Bay Area bullshitting who knows if they are actually a true believer(tm)(c) or they're just throwing around cash looking for your typical unicorn. Strikes me as delusional too. I'm sure you'll have multimodal models any day now that can do everything from pick strawberries to writing and maintaining some bottom of the barrel web app.

So, more delusion and more bullshit. Lately, in general, and it's not a personal thing against the author or his business at all. It's just much in line with the frenzy that I see elsewhere.

You don't need acquired capital for your business because you can rent a VPS and generate social media posts cheaply? Here's your sign.