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  "title": "what were your “oh shit” moments in AI?",
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  "transcript": "Mine:\n\nGPT-4: proving pretraining and scaling worked  \nClaude 3.5 Sonnet: proved agentic coding is the future  \no1: proved test time compute worked  \no3: one of my biggest oh shit moments along with GPT-4, proved test time compute can scale like crazy  \nClaude Fable: proved that a huge model + test time compute works really well, parameter scaling is nowhere near dead\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[58 upvotes] Gemini 2.5 03_25\n\nI was a senior engineer working on a really weird, complex bug in a massive codebase for a huge, multimillion dollar system on an airgapped network. I couldn't have it look at the code directly so I had to explain to it what was going on. It suggested which tools to use to profile the issue and walked me through how to gather data on it. I was mindboggled at how knowledgeable it was about the technologies we were using and how it was able to correctly figure out what was going on and pinpoint the source of the bug (which was a very complex multi-threading issue involving multiple components) just based off of my conversation with it and the profiling data we gathered.\n\nThat was when it went beyond \"wow we solved the turing test that's so neat\" to \"holy fucking shit these things are actually genuinely intelligent\". It was honestly chilling.\n\n[35 upvotes] Will Smith eating spaghetti (original)\n\n[30 upvotes] running models in local with a 250usd card. current gemma4 is faster and better than gpt4, which was sci ci less than 2 years ago\n\n[21 upvotes] I remember clearly the first time I ever used an LLM. It was in mid-2022 before ChatGPT launched and I made a free OpenAI account and played with the GPT-3 API through AI Playground. I remember tying in the box: “Say banana 10 times” and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the word banana printed out 10 times. It’s trivial in hindsight but I’ll never forget how incredible it was to see something like that actually exist in front of me.\n\n[19 upvotes] Sora felt like a punch to the stomach. I had to go get some fresh air because I just didn't believe, even with its flaws, that video gen could do anything that good that fast.",
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