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Dismissal is a common reaction when witnessing AI’s rate of progress. People struggle to reconcile their world model with what AI can now do, and how.

By probabilistic pattern matching. Next.

Every model update doesn’t necessarily mean a complete rewrite every time, but it does force you to fundamentally rethink your assumptions each time, making a rewrite a perfectly plausible hypothesis.

Translation: our crap is unreliable and will introduce regressions that you have to manage. It can regress so much that anything you built on this has to be redone. Next.

I strongly believe that when it comes to AI, something is happening. This time it does feel different.

Said the guy working for the company that is selling you this stuff. Next.

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