"Delve" was one of the words whose usage spiked most dramatically after the launch of ChatGPT, relative to its usage pre-ChatGPT.

Do you think the fact that NO major content websites (NYT, substack, WSJ, ...) have settled on a PPV model is simply because they haven't thought of it? Or is it more likely that the numbers absolutely do not work?

Very interesting to see the range of peoples' preferences. I would almost always prefer smart over fast; I have all my LLMs to be all-thinking-all-the-time.

A log scale is actually appropriate in this context from a first-principles perspective. Per scaling laws (and also general behavior of epsilon-probability of failure multiplied N times), you would generally expect more vs. less effective techniques to have multiplicatively greater or fewer steps until failure, not additively greater/fewer. Figure 1 is comical, but the appendix figure is the more scientifically appropriate one.

Very obviously missing the mundane agentic work. I think the following things are basically already solved, and are just waiting for the right harness:

- Call this government service center, wait on hold for 45 minutes, then when they finally answer, tell them to reactivate my insurance marketplace account that got wrongly deleted.

- Find a good dentist within 2mi from my house, call them to make sure they take my insurance, and book an appointment sometime in the next two weeks no earlier than 11am

- Figure out how I'm going to get from Baltimore to Boston next Thursday, here's $100 and if you need more, ask me.

- I want to apply a posterizing filter in photoshop, take control of my mouse for the next 10sec and show me where it is in the menu

- Call that gym I never go to and cancel my membership