Ironically, I heard AI startups are pushing their employees to a 996 work schedule.I feel a great disturbance in the workforce, as if millions of employees suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly made redundant
Benchmarks are solid, but nothing really mind-blowing. But honestly I stopped paying much attention to benchmarks quite some time ago, I just use the models myself and evaluate accordingly. Drastic reduction in hallucination is a big deal and very welcome. Immediate rollout to the free tier is a pretty good deal, too bad I renewed my Plus annual literally three days ago.
Anyway, this was a pretty weird presentation. No real bangers, quite a lot of filler (why?) and I don't really feel the OpenAI "San Francisco youngster geek squad" vibe, and the cancer lady was weird and unnecessary. Sam Altman is just a charismatic void, a black hole personality. Also nothing on agent systems?
I dunno, I expected a banger but maybe we've reached a point of diminishing returns with these large language models in their current iteration.
99% of normies are not going to notice a difference between 4o and 5.
Edit: and they're getting clowned on for their bizarre graphs.
My wife is pretty well paid in the healthcare field. Worst case scenario... I become a stay-at-home dad with a side gig as a welder or something.Each day I pray that the Eye of Sauron that is AI development does not turn to my job function.
It's only a matter of time until I'm automated out. Luckily they seem to be focusing on entry-level positions and traditional programming for now.
Each day I pray that the Eye of Sauron that is AI development does not turn to my job function.
It's only a matter of time until I'm automated out. Luckily they seem to be focusing on entry-level positions and traditional programming for now.
I appreciate you looking out and giving advice, but please don't assume I'm doing nothing to prepare for what I think is inevitable.Might want to consider a career change then.
Sitting around doing nothing while you know the end is coming sooner rather than later is going to fuck you up when the time comes.
Might want to consider a career change then.
Sitting around doing nothing while you know the end is coming sooner rather than later is going to fuck you up when the time comes.
I appreciate you looking out and giving advice, but please don't assume I'm doing nothing to prepare for what I think is inevitable.
would be fun to have a thread for those of us in tech to discuss "how are you preparing for / migrating to the AI future"
Each day I pray that the Eye of Sauron that is AI development does not turn to my job function.
It's only a matter of time until I'm automated out. Luckily they seem to be focusing on entry-level positions and traditional programming for now.
At the moment in my corner of tech (disclosure though: I've been involved with NLP / language models in various projects off and on since even before the GPT/tranformer revolution, though I do a lot of other tech too) it's just more work to be done, if anything; the total change in what's possible means all kinds of refactors and new AI-integrated systems, and of course it also means learning to rapidly use AI during development itself.Tech isn't even the primary danger zone, it's white collar jobs.
I can tell from personal experience that normies have no idea what's coming.
Automation has never led to mass unemployment. My job will be made redundant within 5 years max, it is what it is. No point stressing about it. New jobs will be created even if we can't quite envision what sort of jobs will emerge. Zero sum economic thinking is way too widely spread given that it's only ever produced incorrect predictions.Each day I pray that the Eye of Sauron that is AI development does not turn to my job function.
It's only a matter of time until I'm automated out. Luckily they seem to be focusing on entry-level positions and traditional programming for now.
Automation has never led to mass unemployment. My job will be made redundant within 5 years max, it is what it is. No point stressing about it. New jobs will be created even if we can't quite envision what sort of jobs will emerge. Zero sum economic thinking is way too widely spread given that it's only ever produced incorrect predictions.
Is this in reference to the last 150 years, or are we talking about the last 20 years?Automation has never led to mass unemployment.
Sam has really big hands, and a tight body. Sorry, unrelated to this topic.
Benchmarks are solid, but nothing really mind-blowing. But honestly I stopped paying much attention to benchmarks quite some time ago, I just use the models myself and evaluate accordingly. Drastic reduction in hallucination is a big deal and very welcome. Immediate rollout to the free tier is a pretty good deal, too bad I renewed my Plus annual literally three days ago.
Anyway, this was a pretty weird presentation. No real bangers, quite a lot of filler (why?) and I don't really feel the OpenAI "San Francisco youngster geek squad" vibe, and the cancer lady was weird and unnecessary. Sam Altman is just a charismatic void, a black hole personality. Also nothing on agent systems?
I dunno, I expected a banger but maybe we've reached a point of diminishing returns with these large language models in their current iteration.
99% of normies are not going to notice a difference between 4o and 5.
Edit: and they're getting clowned on for their bizarre graphs.
Did they use AI to make this chart?
Free users, plus users, and pro users all get access to GPT-5 w/ various settings and limits. Plus users get nearly unlimited for normal use.I can't watch this yet cause of work, but will this be available to subscribers? The paid ChatGPT is part of my daily workflow, and I use it a decent bit in my personal life too, so I'm excited for this. (Edit: Nvm, just watched it)
Just last night, I had it do a deep dive to find a service menu issue with an old hotel TV from 2011 after I couldn't find the answer myself, and it actually figured it out. It's getting to the point where it's sometimes better than me at researching and googling obscure things, and it does it so much faster.
You're naive if you think AI won't lead to mass unemployment. The number of job functions that could become redundant because of AI is just mind boggling.
Is this in reference to the last 150 years, or are we talking about the last 20 years?
Great questions, thank you for that data.![]()
This is about 80 years worth of data. The States are more automated than ever in 2025 yet unemployment is very low. How come? What is the correlation between automation and the unemployment rate in your opinion?
This wildly exceeds my expectations!
They should've introduced their own version of Waifu's…..Surprising amount of negative vibes online regarding GPT5, I'm not really sure if people are just larping.