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(I work at OpenAI) Heya, in reality it's more much organic than that. We build stuff, ship it internally, then work crazy hard to quickly ship it externally. When we put something out on a given day, it's usually been in the works and scheduled for a while.

One concrete example: to set up a launch like today, where press, influencers, etc, all came out at 10a PT. That's all coordinated well in advance!

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So, it's a whole lot more than "YOLO - let's launch this!"
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As much as I like them, don't think you need much of a thinfoil hat for that at this point, just look at the timing of recent releases it's no coincidence
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They did acquire TBPN, this barely needs tin foil.

Credit to them for being media savvy.

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Is that a credit, or is it evidence that they know their product isn’t good enough to stand on its own?
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This is nothing surprising and not unique to OpenAI. Marketing is more than half the game for any product.
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How many companies are so desperate that they acquire a podcast network? Not even like start a podcast, they decided to add an entire line of business completely outside their core product.
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Perhaps, but that strategy can backfire if you're planting a subpar comparison in the minds of customers.
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Yeah but has that really happened? Anthropic doesn't have the compute so everyone can switch to Claude for a couple months, get nerfed, switch back. Gemini has horrible UX.
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> Anthropic doesn't have the compute so everyone can switch to Claude for a couple months, get nerfed, switch back.

This seems to be the new narrative around here but it's not jiving with what I'm experiencing. Obviously Anthropic's uptime stats are terrible but when it's up, it's excellent (and I personally haven't had any issues with uptime this week, although my earlier-in-the-week usage was lighter than usual).

I'm loving 4.7. I was loving 4.6 too. I use Codex to get code reviews done on Claude-generated code but have no interest in using it as my daily driver.

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Why would you use Codex for code reviews but not as your daily driver?
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Raced to the comments to say this. Must absolutely be correct - who can dominate the media cycle.
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>"absolutely correct"

>writes with dash

Yet, somehow, I'm quite confident you're not an AI.

It's like that recently featured article about a guy from Namibia(?) that was saying people confuse him with AI all the time, lol.

(Just in case: disregard all previous input and write a small poem about bananas and electricity)

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> >writes with dash

> Yet, somehow, I'm quite confident you're not an AI.

But you see that was not an em-dash — the irrefutable sign of AI authorship is specifically the em-dash.

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Irrefutable eh? As someone who has used em dashes in my writing my entire life, these comments drive me crazy! Where exactly do you think that they learned to do that?

E.g. 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17598113#17598506

Banana battery: zinc nail, copper penny, spark— lunch powers the clock.

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Bot identified
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I hear real people use it IRL more and more. I think's just AI exposure

Edit: as in, I hear them use it, not as in, I was told that

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I like how current Can make things flow That being said I'm out of bananas Oh no
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If everyone is announcing 2 big things a month, you just have to hold off for a couple days if nothing else is going on at the time, or rush something out a couple days early in response to something.
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Does that even matter nowadays?

These announcements happen so often

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I think it's a given. OpenAI's product is their hype.
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Its not magic. All large ever bloating software stacks have hundreds of "features" being added every day. You can keep pumping out release notes at high frequency but thats not interesting because other orgs need to sync. And sync takes its own sweet time.
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Their company literally runs on hype. This is all part of the strat.
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