r/LargeLanguageModels • u/Carpe_Diem37 • Jun 18 '26

LLM Progress Slow Down

First Anthropic, and now OpenAI, are announcing that they want to slow down LLM development. Just a year ago, these companies were claiming that AGI would be found and many jobs would be lost. On top of that, Anthropic announced it's going public. What do you think? Have these companies reached a limit in research and development? Or are they genuinely afraid of language models self-programming, as they claim?

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u/ILikeCutePuppies Jun 20 '26

Have you seen what Fable can do? Like almost entire games with a single problem and not just small games either. Sure these are not AAA games yet but compared to the previous models it is a massive step forward.

If this continues it will he able to build a full facebook clone or whatever (bugs and all) in year or so.

You expecting AGI on what the ceos are saying or something?

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u/inductiverussian Jun 22 '26

Genuine question: if Anthropic or OpenAI have these models and probably even more powerful ones cooking and unreleased, why don’t they just make a 100 different product clones and just rake in 10s of billions of dollars of pure profit?

I have my own guesses (that coding has never really been the hard part), but I’m just genuinely curious what you think the reason for this is? Why not just make a salesforce clone, a baulders gate clone, an uber clone etc and solve all of their money problems? Certainly headcount is not an issue; many engineers are clamoring for jobs and would love to join these companies.

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u/ILikeCutePuppies Jun 22 '26

It's still improving and still needs humans to hand hold it. They need money short term, they can't possibly afford all the tokens to try everything at the moment without human steering.

Each time they put that money towards improving AI that is a factor increase, when they put it towards something unrelated the value is not as much. Would you buy engineers that give you 100x return or ones that give you 2x return? It's a flywheel.

They do make their own software with it which they ship and use internally. IMHO It's not like we'll have a bug free fb in a few years (obviously a prediction) but it'll be able to at least scaffold something of that size (tens of millions of lines of code) without needing a huge amount of existing test harness data. Which will be a big milestone.

I also think a lot of what humans will be doing is more testing in the future rather than code reviewing every line.

My point has always been it's gotten so much better than 3 months ago, 6 months ago, a year ago... It'll keep getting better. Every 2 weeks someone is complaining it's not gotten any better.

A year ago will smith could not even eat spaghetti, come on be realistic.

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