Your quoted example to make that point isn't particularly convincing, IMO. Cursor came out in 2023 and everything on that list would be a typical use case, plus ChatGPT for the search replacement.
Of course, it wasn't nearly as effective back then compared to current SOTA models, but none of those are hard to imagine someone recommending Cursor for anytime in 2024 or later.
If OP instead said something like one shotting an entire line of business app with 10k LoC I would agree with your reminder about perspective. But it feels somewhat hype-y to say that goal posts are being moved "monthly" when most of their list has been possible for years.
Same. I looked through the other posts on the company's blog and they're pretty much all SEO slop like "How to Restore Old Photos With AI: Complete Guide" clearly written by an LLM.
But I can't quite decide whether this post being so conspicuously incongruous with the rest implies it's an exception and more likely real... or if the overall trend of posting low-effort SEO spam makes it probable that this, too, is simply marketing slop, just prompted for attention grabbing clickbait instead of inbound filler.
They specifically mention using video game playthroughs for rap songs as an example of targeting based on the audience. I'm somewhat perplexed how or why you turned this into a gendered thing to begin with.
I'm really not seeing the "empathy-speak" you're referring to in that quote or the rest of the interview?
If you're referring to the quote from OP's post, "I don't know if this will make anyone feel better" isn't really appealing to empathy at all, it's basically just preemptively acknowledging what he said may sound bad and so tries to soften it a bit.
It's a rhetorical cliche that has very little to do with anyone's actual feelings.
They're certainly manipulating people with their astroturfing but via slop content like video game playthroughs for rap songs so their actual strategy doesn't seem to uniquely rely on emotional manipulation either. Just following content trends whatever they may be.
Weaponizing "empathy" just seems like a complete red herring that makes for an irrelevant tangent in this context.
We truly do not need to lower the bar to the floor whenever an LLM makes an embarrassing logical error, particularly when the excuses don't line up at all with the reasoning in its explanation.
I'm not sure what changed or what the complaint is ... But personally, I have still never hit the rate limit on the $20/mo ChatGPT Plus plan, while I was constantly getting kicked off the Claude Pro plan until I got fed up and cancelled a few months ago.
I can get about 20 ~ 40 minutes of my 5-hour limit using Codex 5.4 medium to say write a patch script in typescript for a Firebase + BigQuery app. That's including about 10 minutes of first writing a planning.md doc with 5.2 High.
A couple weeks ago I'd get roughly 2~3 hours. And a month before that I couldn't break the 5-hour limit.
Theoretically yes. In practice even a few weeks before it ended, the actual rate limit was down to what it was before the promo. And now I'm getting roughly 0.25x of what I got before the promo.
> But for God's sake, don't accuse me of pumping it.
They paid him to use his product's brand name on an obvious crypto rug pull, he agreed, promoted it on his blog, then people lost money.
His "apology" would be more effective without including all the whining about accurately describing the sequence of events he voluntarily participated it for personal gain.
They have not. I spent more than a week trying to restore a little less than 2 TB backup because the client would just freeze at the last few % every time. I ended up having to break the restore into 200GB chunks on the web client and download and restore manually which was extremely frustrating and made me despise their (required) Windows client.
Of course, it wasn't nearly as effective back then compared to current SOTA models, but none of those are hard to imagine someone recommending Cursor for anytime in 2024 or later.
If OP instead said something like one shotting an entire line of business app with 10k LoC I would agree with your reminder about perspective. But it feels somewhat hype-y to say that goal posts are being moved "monthly" when most of their list has been possible for years.
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