I think the point stands: does it seem like they are increasing operating excellence at 5x-10x the rate they were in January? Or is the volume supporting having agents do the same work in 5-10 the commits that a human + agent was doing in 1 commit in January? There is some interesting data people pulled by comparing weekday to weekend contributions in the chart (much of the increase seems to be in the baseline rate).

> does it seem like they are increasing operating excellence at 5x-10x the rate they were in January?

Maybe it's all capacity, but I've certainly seen an improvement in uptime.

I’m all for being snarky about those companies but without seeing their commit history there is no way to know if it is a signal you can use to derive anything meaningful

Yes Anthropic’s chief compute officer said nice things about one of Anthropic’s chief providers of compute. Recall that compute constraints are one of their existential risks.

In particular, harvesting identities for online fraud is an industrial market for various criminal organizations.

This is a superficial complaint. In practice, the US doles out enormous amounts of social assistance. Disability, social security, and healthcare are an enormous part of the federal budget. Maybe it will be gated behind make-work or some other scheme.

> This is a superficial complaint. In practice, the US doles out enormous amounts of social assistance

Good point. So we should ask those people how the reliance on social assistance has really worked out for them. Do they generally feel respected and valued by the systems that pay them? Are they happy with the amount of assistance they receive?

He can be at the frontier while just having a regular job. Every other option is a lot more work.

GPT-1 presumably, which was released a year after he left. Prior to focusing on GPT, OpenAI was pursuing a lot of research directions.

No it doesn’t? It matches his skills to the lab’s needs. Karpathy is a media personality, manager, and educator far more than he is a hands-on researcher.

he’s not a hands-in researcher just like lebron is not a basketball player but media personality :)

It’s kind of useless to argue through metaphors here. There are a hundred researchers with more significant contributions to theory and practice than Karpathy. If you disagree, I’d love to see what papers or implementations you think he’s offered that pushed SOTA.

Lebron can still dunk when he needs to!

Average people don’t want to spend their lives managing permissions. You could go ahead and use Android or ChromeOS.

No average person cares about your side project, and most people prefer Apple’s product decisions over the ones you’d like them to make. Based on your history with technology, you are a Windows developer who would like to distribute apps on Apple’s platform without learning about what makes for a great app on that platform.

Browser vendors have been able to ship their own engines in the EU for almost 2 years now. What great benefit to consumers has that enabled?