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Dex Horthy reflected on his judgment made in 2024—that models are better at collecting, formatting, summarizing, and passing along context than at writing code and doing math—and said he now finds that statement a bit foolish. He pointed out that models have already been solving Millennium Prize problems and cloning Redis, while for most people the worst part of their day has become reading unreviewed, lengthy AI-generated Slack messages and documents.
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Dex Horthy reflects on his 2024 judgment of model capabilities
Dex Horthy looks back at his 2024 claim that models are better at collecting, formatting, summarizing, and passing along context than at writing code and doing math, and now finds that statement a bit foolish. He points out that models are already solving Millennium Prize problems and cloning Redis, while for most people the worst part of the day has become reading unreviewed, lengthy AI-generated Slack messages and documents.