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OpenAI Demo'd Fixing Issue #2472 Live. It's Still Open Months Later. (blog.tymscar.com)
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During OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch event, they demoed the model’s ability to fix real bugs in production code. Live on stage. In their own repository. The kind of demo that makes CTOs reach for their credit cards and engineers nervously update their resumes. There’s just one small problem: the fix they promised to merge “right after the show” is still sitting there, unmerged, three and a half months later.

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[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

Imagine if a FAANG company pulled this move - demo a feature on stage, promise to ship it, then just… don’t.

I'm still waiting for Google assistant to make me a restaurant reservation. It has been 7 years.

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

I suspect in the real world it's frustrating enough for restaurants that it wouldn't have worked out.

You're pretty much tricking restaurant workers into one of those awful voice-based phone trees.

Plus there are so many things that can actually happen when you try to book a table on the phone - they don't have exactly what you want but can offer you this time instead... they only have outside seating available... etc. etc.

Plus, just having a proper online booking form is clearly a better option and not totally uncommon these days.

[-] 123@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They saw restaurant workers as just a cog in their machine that would put up with an error prone voice assistant. Hard to get that from minimum wage workers.

On my area some restaurants have just stopped answering the phone that you could previously use to place orders. I'd do the same (stop caring) if I could barely afford life even with a bunch if roommates.

[-] brian@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure it can, it's just been moved to Google maps instead

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