> Also I think there's huge differences to the kinds of tasks and workloads people are throwing at it, leading to wildly different perspectives, but everyone's talking about the same "Fable".
replyThis right here. Humans are really prone to over indexing on a handful of personal experiences vs a representative sample. And once someone has formed an opinion, confirmation bias helps cement it, despite evidence to the contrary. Reality is probably somewhere in the middle.
That's where I think benchmarks are a huge red herring. Everyone wants a simple performance evaluation of a repetitive task but that's missing the point entirely IMO. Just try talking to it, asking questions. I spend so much time just reading responses. I have to like really think about how to specify the question I'm asking, fire it off, and I often can't wait to see what it says and what I'll learn. How anyone thinks it's making us dumber is crazy to me...you're missing out if you're just trying to offload thinking.
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