No one here has suggested that the conspiracy theory is stupid (But I will, it is stupid), we are pointing out that the people actually measuring model performance have not found the nerfing before launch conspiracy to be true. in short, yall dumb, shut up.

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stackghost an hour ago | parent [-]

I think the real story is just how easily people believe that purported conspiracy theory. It speaks to how little trust there is in these AI companies, and in Big Tech in general, that this "conspiracy" theory is perfectly plausible to lots of people

> in short, yall dumb, shut up.

no u

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Rapzid 36 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's speaks to how low the bar has dropped.

Everyone wants to be a software engineer, until it's time to do software engineering shit.

You know, like scientific method shit we learned in 5th/6th grade.

It's the great bro science incursion.

	▲	stackghost 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>Everyone wants to be a software engineer, until it's time to do software engineering shit. The absolute state of software in 2026 should tell you that almost nobody does “software engineering shit” and never has.