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A pretty good UX improvement for ChatGPT. I think they will fork VScode and make an AI editor later. Although It's confusing for me the OAI seems spend more time on end user product instead of working on AGI.


I really hope VS Code can make API changes such that nobody needs to be forking it for these projects. I tried using Cursor for a few hours but I don’t want a hacked-up VS Code, I just want VS Code.


Great end user experience is a huge differentiator in my opinion… it’s why I use OpenAI over other products in the market. It’s actually a joy to use.

(The responses are generally far better than other products.)


It's a chatbot... what UI features that OAI provided that you couldn't find in other providers before? I've found Claude 3.5 to give the better responses in my experience.


Have you tried Claude? I don’t see how it could be much better than that.


AGI is a research project.

These are revenue generators.

Both have a place.


If I genuinely thought I was close to AGI, I’d focus all my efforts on that, then ask it to build my revenue generators.

That’s probably what Ilya is doing.

(FWIW I don’t think we’re close to AGI).


Saying you're close to AGI is a pretty good marketing move to sell consumer products though.


That's how you go bankrupt before reaching your goal. "Close" doesn't necessarily mean next week close.


What if you think the timeframe is accelerated based on the number of ML engineers you hired over a > 5 year timeframe say?

If that's the case you need to optimize for hiring more ML engineers so you need revenue to bring in to pay them.


> If I genuinely thought I was close to AGI

As a great founder once said: "Work towards your goal, but you must ship intermediate products."


Who said that?


> Who said that?

George Hotz


What if close is 5 years close, how would you survive 5 years with the current investment rate/costs?


OpenAI probably employs traditional software engineers as well as a ton of researches.

The former are building tools like these, while the latter are conducting research and building new models.

Since their skillsets don't overlap that much I don't think if they skipped building products like these, the research would go faster.


Why is that confusing?




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