Louis CK did a bit on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U :)

My point isn’t that other people shouldn’t be amazed, it’s that I see this recurring assumption they aren’t. How do you know the people holding LLMs to higher standards aren’t also the same people who herald the dawn of a new AI era?

Emphasis in the text you quoted: “saying”, not “thinking”.

My point was more that there is a subset of technical people who delight in the “they’re not perfect, because / therefore they are just glorified spellcheck” fallacy. Search this thread for “spell” or “parrot” to see examples.

So I don’t think it’s the same people, because the tone is not “they’re amazing but have farther to go”; there is a substantial group who at least claims to believe there’s no qualitative difference between Opus 4.1 and the spellcheck in Word ‘95.

Not trying to be argumentative here; I appreciate the conversation and you’ve helped me sharpen my point, which I appreciate.