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30 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 2h \ on: ChatGPT tried to gaslight me about OpenAI reasoning token billing AI
The models don't even know what they are in my experience. It's been a while since I tested it but maybe 6 months ago I would ask the chatbot what model it was and it could not answer.
Why? They don't know anything. It's how they work. They guess. Most of the newer ones search the web. A key to using them effectively is knowing how they work, their weak points and strong points.
IMO most of the issues people have with using them are more skill issues than critical flaws with the models. If you use them enough you are gonna hit weird stuff. It's wild sometimes. Love reading stuff like this btw.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 2h
Exactly, which is why I was so ready to push back. I'm actually a bit surprised that GPT-5 didn't automatically search the web for this question though, from the very start.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 2h
These things are dumb. They need to be hammered over and over to do and not do stuff. Even then they still do weird things. It's early and I can't take people seriously that think it's game over because of generative AI.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 2h
Seriously. Anyone who's used them for any serious work sees their limitations quite clearly.
On the other hand, the progress in AI in the last 4 years truly has been astonishing, so maybe it's that pace of change projected forward that people are worried about.
And the other thing I'll say is, the AI is better than 90% of undergraduates at knowledge based tasks. Factoring in cost and speed, there's no way I'd hire an undergrad fresh out of college to do things like research stuff for me, or even annotate data for me, now that I have AI in my pocket.
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30 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 1h
With my work it's better than most junior devs when you consider the cost and hand holding one must do with a new Dev. Basically it can allow someone that knows what they are doing be more productive. In theory at least.
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