alt Hacker NewsRunning an experiment, the experiment being more successful than you thought, and then deciding to put more effort into a bigger experiment is not hypocrisy. It’s engineering. If you think some of the objective facts they’re putting out (like test coverage and performance) are lies, go and prove it instead of appealing to emotion.
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renticulous • today at 10:51 AM
This attempt is like shooting for the stars. Most of us software developers are plumbers and we just need to reach to the moon.
dandellion • today at 11:16 AM
Running an experiment and deciding based on the results is not hypocrisy, it's engineering, 100%.
Saying you have no intention of doing something then doing it is not engineering, it's being dishonest. He could have said "well decide when we see the results", why didn't he?
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Especially if given near unlimited tokens to burn through, because any level of success fuels the LLM hype machine, which brings ROI.
> It’s engineering.
Significantly, but not totally. The marketing value can't be ignored.