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1. sailingparrot · 1790095545 · focus · HN ↗

   > Claude Opus 5.5 is our first release since we called for pacing the frontier.

   Interesting how the very first line is used to remind the reader of their call to pace the frontier just last week, and everything else after that line is to demonstrate with very specific numbers how they absolutely are not pacing.

   1. tantalor · 1790099884 · focus · HN ↗

      "pacing the frontier" is code for downgrading your expectations of AGI.

      1. bonesss · 1790100965 · focus · HN ↗

         Or, in parallel, the research showing LLMs intelligence will operate on an S-curve, eventually hitting a long valuation deflating plateau, is dead on the money and The Big Guys are trying to delay that inevitability for as many quarters as possible…

         1. Tade0 · 1790101095 · focus · HN ↗

            My hypothesis is that to date they've been increasing benchmark scores via scaling up, but now that low hanging fruit is basically picked.

            1. xadhominemx · 1790111083 · focus · HN ↗

               Doesn’t seem to be the case as the price per token is not increasing…
         2. jatora · 1790101655 · focus · HN ↗

            These takes are fully fueled by cope. What is this plateau you are talking about? Any user of agentic coding tools sure isn't experiencing anything close to a plateau.

            1. xadhominemx · 1790111040 · focus · HN ↗

               The pace of change is accelerating! If this is an S curve, we are still near the bottom…

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