Fuck AI

Nah there have been huge advancements in the past few months, you are definitely out of touch if you havent witnessed them

Recent models have gotten WAY better at "second guessing" themselves, and not acting nearly so confidently wrong.

I don’t think we’ve overcome the halfglass of wine issue

That isnt an LLM issue at all, that has nothing to do with LLMs in fact. Thats a problem with Stable Diffusion which is an entirely different kind of AI, but yeah that issue is fundamental to what stable diffusion is.

with most of the “improvements” being seen coming from basically better engineering

I mean, thats not much different from any other tech, a LOT of advanced tech we have today is dozens and dozens of separate bits of engineering all working in tandem to create something more meaningful.

Your smartphone has countless different and distinct advancements on different types of technology that come together to make a useful device, and if you removed any one of those pieces from it, it would be substantially less useful as a tool.

So yeah, I personally will very much count the other pieces of the puzzle, advancing, as the system as a whole advancing.

LLMs today compared to ones a year ago are quite a bit better, by a large degree, and the tooling around them has also improved a lot. The proliferation of Model Context Protocol Tools is proving to be a massive part of the system as a whole becoming something actually very useful.