alt Hacker NewsThis makes a lot of sense and explains why some people are so captivated by modern models, while others see progress as merely incremental.
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jmalicki • yesterday at 10:56 PM
Which way do you think that goes? Are the ones who "get it" the ones who are captivated or see them as incremental?
I'm sure that explains some of it but I really don't think it explains most of the people who have been AI-pilled in the last nine months. There was no amount of context I could give GPT-4o that would make it a net benefit to use that for agentic development. I tried it with quite sophisticated prompt systems and much simpler ones, compendiums of code & business analysis and sparser ones. Yet it just wasted my time - still there were people using Cursor with that model and saying it was life changing. I didn't have that experience until Opus 4.5 - its possible I could have had it earlier but that was when I happened to try it again.