# Posts on X before Oct 5, 2024, 5:58:47 AM UTC

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### [Oct 4, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1842097511466467434)

> can't wait for full o1 and opus 3.5 to hit before the holidays. with prices dropping, we'll hit the new year with so much more intelligence for pennies on the dollar vs. what we already have right now



### [Sep 24, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1838729219859239155)

> When I browse the For You page, I can feel every time some of my brain cells commit harakiri because of an engagement rage post



### [Sep 24, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1838458607928590643)

> I just want a think\_time API setting for OpenAI where I can say “think for at least 5 minutes” or whatever, since they said the longer it thinks, the better the answer



### [Sep 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1837630054861623802)

> At this point I need to stop using For You on X, clean up my follows list, and just stay in the Following tab
> 
> All I see is engagement bait with 10K+ likes, all noise no signal



### [Sep 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1837302416896643470)

> My reason was I was sick of Jagex fucking up RuneScape back in 2006, I found out about private servers / Java / bash, and the rest is history



Quoted post by Nucleus☕️:

### [Sep 20, 2024 — @EsotericCofe](https://x.com/EsotericCofe/status/1837136872604147911)

> i only started coding because i wanted to make gta san andreas mods btw



### [Sep 20, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1837141036700745770)

> Welp, there go roughly 200,000 jobs (stat from US Bureau of Labor Statistics).
> 
> Sure, you can argue that a lot of people go to chat it up/gossip/socialize in general at the nail salon, but I think we’re headed towards a generation where the majority of communication will be done digitally, not in person. People are becoming more and more anxious, shy… 
> 
> I know speaking for myself and my wife, we both would prefer to go to a robot instead 🤷‍♂️

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### [Sep 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1836828777793356199)

> so supposedly something cool is supposed to drop from GitHub Copilot (remember that? lmao) as well as from Google, less confident about the latter being released today but GitHub CEO himself said today they're releasing something new



### [Sep 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1836771396434690163)

> imagine willingly, proudly, being on the side of history trying to slow down progress instead of building something useful towards it



Quoted post by Beff (e/acc):

### [Sep 19, 2024 — @beffjezos](https://x.com/beffjezos/status/1836613489353220501)

> Ok, Doomer. 🙄 [pic.x.com/CyBXv1qtEJ](<https://t.co/CyBXv1qtEJ>)

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### [Sep 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1836480061698117963)

> waking up every day like 'is today the day opus 3.5 drops?' sonnet 3.5 is still king and o1 is just... cool. pls [@anthropicai](<https://x.com/anthropicai>), i need that wow factor back



### [Sep 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1836338086449680779)

> $100 billion here, $150 billion there, and everyone laughed at [@sama](<https://x.com/sama>) when he said $7 trillion



Quoted post by Chubby♨️:

### [Sep 18, 2024 — @kimmonismus](https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1836337203900731689)

> Accelerate:
> "Microsoft and BlackRock are part of a group of companies collaborating to pull together up to  $100 billion to develop data centers for artificial intelligence and the  energy infrastructure to power them."
> [cnbc.com/2024/09/17/mic…](<https://t.co/87QtXD9mNo>)



### [Sep 18, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1836333870788346092)

> Even if the jump from Opus 3 -\> Opus 3.5 is half as powerful as the jump we've experienced from Sonnet 3 -\> Sonnet 3.5, it'll be SOTA by far, even further than o1.
> 
> I'd pay $50/$100 at this point, IDC. [@AnthropicAI](<https://x.com/AnthropicAI>) just please release it already 🥲



### [Sep 17, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1836043920146632818)

> it's so crazy that sonnet 3.5 is still king after all these months



### [Sep 14, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834956041445921054)

> Ex Google Brain / Current OpenAI researcher implies that o1 (the actual o1, not o1-preview or o1-mini) is coming in a month.



Quoted post by David Dohan:

### [Sep 12, 2024 — @dmdohan](https://x.com/dmdohan/status/1834284226013003946)

> It's important to emphasize that this is a huge leap /and/ we're still at the start
> 
> Give o1-preview a try, we think you'll like it.
> 
> And in a month, give o1 a try and see all the ways it has improved in such a short time
> 
> And expect that to keep happening



### [Sep 14, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834954843770831112)

> This is OpenAI's Strawberry training infra lead, stating that o1 is literally self-improving itself.



Quoted post by Łukasz Kondraciuk:

### [Sep 13, 2024 — @lukasz_kondr](https://x.com/lukasz_kondr/status/1834643103397167326)

> [@johnowhitaker](<https://x.com/johnowhitaker>) [@OpenAIDevs](<https://x.com/OpenAIDevs>) A couple of PRs to the OpenAI codebase was already authored solely by o1\!



### [Sep 14, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834941672695754818)

> OpenAI is looking at $150+ billion, 37x more than its annualized revenue.
> 
> [@sama](<https://x.com/sama>) is getting closer and closer to that $7 trillion as time goes on 🫣

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### [Sep 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834640231926304878)

> when does anthropic usually release models? what weekday? is there any pattern similar to openai's thursday at 10am pst?



### [Sep 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834628367225594276)

> for those using cursor - seems like using o1-mini works well. trying to use o1-preview requires you to have usage-based pricing, but o1-mini works just fine once you add it as a model.



### [Sep 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834543696936624138)

> welp there goes another one of my 30 messages per week.
> 
> o1 is SOOOOOOOO lazy.
> 
> another -1 message / 30 per week, gone to o1-preview basically writing me a fanfic starting with code and ending it with a narrator telling me what happens next (without actually doing it\!)
> 
> this is the 4th time it's happened today by the way, even with explicit instructions of giving me the full code, not truncated pieces of it. with our without these extra instructions, it's still lazier than ever it seems.

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### [Sep 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834525480805908667)

> ah ok, super cool, thanks o1

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### [Sep 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834516134244098151)

> OpenAI isn't done releasing.
> o1-preview, o1-mini - they're the little brothers.
> 
> What you're testing, what you see others have access to - it's not even the o1 final form. the PREVIEW is this good.
> 
> Just look at the score increases from o1-preview to o1.

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### [Sep 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834326996614312240)

> so the o1 model was given an example that had a unintended human error, it went out of its way to fix that first (without being asked to, or hinted how to, etc), and once it fixed the unforeseen human error, finished the example and got the flag.
> 
> queue ralph wiggum "i'm in danger :)"



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### [Sep 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834319968747348119)

> oh no... no openai o1... no please...

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### [Sep 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834276812307960120)

> HERE IT COMES BOYS AND GIRLS

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### [Sep 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834262332836372844)

> ok im gonna go work out until it hits 10AM PST, so afterwards I'll either finish and come back home to a new model from OpenAI (Strawberry, O1, whatever they call it) or I'll be too tired to feel the disappointment of no release



### [Sep 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834235537529479379) · Edited

> So... OpenAI Strawberry this week.
> It's 100% confirmed.
> 
> Just got an email from The Information, a (so far) reliable mainstream AI source that has a lot of exclusive access to Sam / OpenAI
> 
> "Strawberry reasoning model ... due out before the end of this week, including a version that will be in the free tier of ChatGPT"
> 
> Piece of the email:

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### [Sep 12, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1834235468772155614) · Edited

> So... OpenAI Strawberry this week.
> It's 100% confirmed.
> 
> Just got an email from The Information, a (so far) reliable mainstream AI source that has a lot of exclusive access to Sam / OpenAI
> 
> Strawberry reasoning model ... due out before the end of this week, including a version that will be in the free tier of ChatGPT"
> 
> Piece of the email:

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### [Aug 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1827765593770238384)

> what ever happened to devin lmao



### [Aug 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1827758132388577540)

> so obesity is pretty much solved with ozempic, right? well, as long as you keep using it, i know, but the same thing can be said about ADHD/adderall/vyvanse/ritalin
> 
> so... again, obesity is solved it seems?



### [Aug 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1827737156149969018)

> you know what scares me the most? there are teenagers -  even people in their 20's - who don't know how to use a computer.
> 
> no, i don't mean coding, or running a distro - they don't know how to use a computer apart from google drive, docs, powerpoint.
> 
> they do everything on their phone instead.



Quoted post by ludwig:

### [Aug 25, 2024 — @ludwigABAP](https://x.com/ludwigABAP/status/1827725269010096138)

> there is something very sad in the fact that we have had the best learning resources in the history of mankind for decades on the internet and people are actually learning less and less [x.com/dhh/status/182…](<https://t.co/RLaw5rhMIO>)



### [Aug 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1827721830016458761)

> me and claude sonnet 3.5 [x.com/i/status/18273…](<https://t.co/llAw7IsHKL>)



### [Aug 25, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1827685765343814124)

> there are people on tpot that refuse to try/use claude sonnet 3.5 because... they're openai maximalists and think (delusionally) that gpt-4 / gpt-4o / gpt-4o-mini are BETTER than sonnet 3.5. LMAO.



### [Aug 23, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1826989885015941179)

> every morning i wake up and remember that there are people working at openai and anthropic using gpt-5 and opus 3.5 and i start uncontrollably sobbing



### [Aug 21, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1826124084482290057)

> I guess we have to wait for the API version of Grok 2

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### [Aug 20, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825909229720580180)

> another Tuesday in AI... hopefully something cool drops today :)



### [Aug 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825483657995501617)

> X is really starting to give off high quality 4chan vibes as long as you've built your algo well brick-by-brick. thank you [@yacineMTB](<https://x.com/yacineMTB>) and team



### [Aug 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825481614216044692)

> So eloquently put. So correct.



Quoted post by BURKOV:

### [Aug 18, 2024 — @burkov](https://x.com/burkov/status/1825026147756720194)

> [@daprofile](<https://x.com/daprofile>) Many humans are mere pattern matchers, but some aren't. All LLMs are mere pattern matchers.



### [Aug 19, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1825387665300312401)

> if u so smart, why u not smart more?



### [Aug 16, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1824477887002550751)

> I think having an X Premium subscription should automatically come with like $5 / month in API credits for Grok. [@elonmusk](<https://x.com/elonmusk>) it would bring about lots of interest, budding starting-out programmers, etc. Truly shape the "Everything App" experience



### [Aug 15, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1824097697038827980)

> i mean at this point -I'M- scared of posting the copyright material i'm making in grok. how is elon going to deal with this other than censoring it like midjourney/others do?
> 
> then again, if ANYONE can do it with the right legal loopholes and galaxy-brain thinking, [@elonmusk](<https://x.com/elonmusk>) can.



### [Aug 13, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1823410891641250202)

> google and [@OfficialLoganK](<https://x.com/OfficialLoganK>) are changing many people's ideas of what google is and what it's capable of in the AI space, especially with instant releases like this instead of "nEw fRonTieR ModElS coMinG sOon"

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### [Aug 11, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822615163775639647)

> whoever has the best text-generating model wins. the world literally runs on text, and it will remain like that for the foreseeable future



### [Aug 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822385484053520865)

> after 3 grueling days of trying to figure out the best way to parse pdf/docx/powerpoint in obsidian into a nice markdown file and images... i finally did it. huge update coming soon.



### [Aug 10, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1822249585529532696)

> i mean how difficult could it be to make your own pdf extractor? all the npm pdf extractors are absolutely dogshit



### [Aug 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821527286018986423)

> o no i think i ate too much creatine



### [Aug 8, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821370833421447456)

> all this AI hype around gpt-4.5 / gpt-5 with no release is cool the first time, eh the second time, cringe the third time, annoying the fourth time, boring the fifth time...



### [Aug 7, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1821022814863868146)

> today's AI context windows are like the first 16MB flash drives back in 2000-2002.
> 
> except we won't have to wait 10 years for orders of magnitude improvement in capacity. soon, a "context window" will be virtually limitless



### [Aug 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820352479843721645)

> been using this all day today and... yeah it's performing amazingly so far code-wise, going to stress test it even further. it's so super safe though, that's the only downside



Quoted post by Ruben Hassid:

### [Aug 4, 2024 — @rubenhassid](https://x.com/rubenhassid/status/1820111720431468653)

> gemini 1.5-pro-exp outperforms gpt-4o.
> 
> Some say it's the end of OpenAI reign.
> 
> So I ran my own tests:
> test \#1 → write a viral twitter thread

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### [Aug 5, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820303368968905161)

> yeah a lot of people seem to forget that gpt-4o is any in, any out



Quoted post by Jimmy Apples 🍎/acc:

### [Aug 5, 2024 — @apples_jimmy](https://x.com/apples_jimmy/status/1820259947059479007)

> Hot take, I want the promised 4o image capabilities more than voice.
> 
> Something magic about the prompt accuracy and working in tandem with an alien ai to create.
> 
> “Art is the highest form of hope. What we are doing here is hope work.“ [x.com/gdb/status/179…](<https://t.co/zfmRuAINhk>)



### [Aug 4, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1820073529200550303)

> It’s been months since I’ve used OpenAI anything for something. It’s all Sonnet 3.5.



### [Aug 2, 2024 — @MichaelStolarz](https://x.com/MichaelStolarz/status/1819364084548317256)

> small tiny eensy weensy puny little chance that this also drops an upgraded OpenAI model. but... the chance is NOT non-existent\!



Quoted post by Brett Adcock:

### [Aug 1, 2024 — @adcock_brett](https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1819091030496735348)

> fyi, Figure has some very special announcements coming
> 
> The engineering team has been working their assess off the last four months
> 
> Tomorrow, you'll see the beginning of something that is nothing short of magical 🎩



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