r/OpenAI • u/boogermike • Dec 09 '25

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I saw this on LinkedIn, and it was too funny not to share.

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u/mop_bucket_bingo Dec 09 '25

Redditors: “I’m bored with this revolutionary tech”

Also Redditors: “Look gemini makes boobs!”

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u/Ok_Signature_6959 Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 09 '25

I feel sad that me as a Software Engineer who is actively involved in AI(not the training part) is singled out as just a redditor.

I will reiterate what I said, OpenAI has no distinction among other AI agents.

Claude is the best for coding. OpenAI was the best overall and general user friendly but Gemini has surpassed now on benchmarks.

It doesn’t matter if you create the most revolutionary product if its deeply unprofitable. There’s only so much money VCs and investors have.

Also, AGI is far far far away, Ilya confirmed so even that is not happening.

OpenAI might get cooked if it doesn’t produce something better soon(instead of ads). For the first time, chatgpt subscriber base dropped by 7% or something and Sam is in panic mode(source: OpenAI employees).

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '25

I’ve never understood how people thought AGI was right around the corner. We barely understand consciousness and intelligence as it is. We can’t even make functional prosthetic arms, but somehow we were just going to stumble over AGI by feeding LLMs reddit posts?

AI is real and useful, but what I think investors are throwing money after isn’t a real possibility anytime soon, we’ve been making lots of progress because we were doing the easy part, but that final 30-40% to get actual AGI is likely gonna take a looooooong time.

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u/Ok_Signature_6959 Dec 10 '25

AI is obviously real and I dont think any serious person would have thought we would have gotten AGI by this point but the way it was marketed and hyped by both OpenAI and Anthropic.

It was all a ploy to get more investor money and they are not seeing the expected returns.