Interesting - do you have a link about the financial accounting around this?

> Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website.

I love that. Like a familiar smell, it triggered in me a long lost memory of the old hacker ethos.

"No Such Agency"

Indeed, and if we accept the argument of this tech approaching AGI, we should expect that within x years, the subscription cost may exceed the salary cost of a junior dev.

To be clear, I'm not saying that it's a good thing, but it does seem to be going in this direction.

If LLMs do reach AGI (assuming we have an actual agreed upon definition), it would make sense to pay way more than a junior salary. But also, LLMs won’t give us AGI (again, assuming we have an actual, meaningful definition)

I absolutely do not accept that argument. It’s clear models hit a plateau roughly a year ago and all incremental improvements come at an increasingly higher cost.

And junior devs have never added much value. The first two years of any engineer’s career is essentially an apprenticeship. There’s no value add from have a perpetually junior “employee”.

What of it?

For me too, it was around that time last year, with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and then Gemini 3 that I started feeling that these models are clearly becoming great at reasoning. I'm not at all opposed to saying that they are around PhD-level on at least some domains.

I think there's a lot of difference between sounding like someone and being someone. The models are excellent at pretending indeed.

I don't think that sama was arguing that ChatGPT actually passed a PhD thesis defense. But arguably, it could make for an interesting benchmark.

Please do not get swayed by nor defend the words vomited by a snake oil salesman.

Also what benchmark? How will you you design it?

exactly. this is what whole RL thing is optimizing for, even if that is not the intent.

> We want to make these capabilities available to the scientists and research organizations best positioned to advance human health, while maintaining strong safeguards against biological misuse. The Life Sciences model is launching through a trusted-access deployment structure for qualified Enterprise customers in the U.S. to start, with controls around eligibility, access management, and organizational governance.

I'm absolutely ok with a legitimate lab scientist conducting biochemical research getting suggestions about substances that are generally considered dangerous but might be appropriate for their study, and it'll be up to the scientist to discern whether it is indeed appropriate to use.

Any particular evidence for this other than the conjecture that it might be related?

To me it seems like just a natural evolution of Codex and a direct response to Claude Cowork, rather than something fully claw-like.

I don't think that this is about being "dumb", but rather about being able to support oneself.

Becoming a parent and taking on the responsibility to support a child financially and emotionally for 18 years as you gradually prepare them for independent life is already a massively difficult decision, particularly when looking at the worldwide decline in birth rates. Expecting people to knowingly and ahead of time take on responsibility for a child who most likely will never be able to support themselves and a raise their own family seems really unreasonable to me.

Candycrush? I suppose you mean Crunchyroll, right?

That's right. Pervasive games got into my head.

As the other commenter, I also confirm the sub got worse.