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This says a lot more about the state of the frontend ecosystem than it does about the OpenAI dev team. The complexity has gotten absurdly out of control.

It's really quite ironic that on one hand, we've got a company on the cusp of developing a superintelligence, and a bunch of open source models lagging not too far behind. But on the other hand, you've gotta install it all with Python - and good luck, because nobody in the ecosystem is pinning dependencies and you're gonna have to re-install the thing every time you run it.

And then on the frontend, you've got the team responsible for creating the interface to the super intelligence. They've actually done a decent job thus far, but it's slow development and disconnected from more ambitious scaling ideas.



> This says a lot more about the state of the frontend ecosystem than it does about the OpenAI dev team. The complexity has gotten absurdly out of control.

That’s a peculiar way to spin it.. not sure how doesn’t that justify poor UX though (what does this even have to do with python)

> but it's slow development and disconnected

It’s as slow and disconnected as they want it to be


Are we calling language models "super intelligences" now?




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