no, I got access to GPT-2 and realized the way things were going it was going to be big and things were changing. I couldn't predict the timing but GPT-2 felt different.

Yeah, for me 2020-2021 was when I woke up to the reality that people wouldn't be coding for too much longer. Prior to that I probably wouldn't have believed that was likely for at least a few decades.

When ChatGPT was realised it was far more of a confirmation than a surprise.