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Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs at all. - Around 1-2B (~20%) are casual and infrequent users of free-tier ChatGPT-like products. This group sees derpy chatbots and treats them a bit like a better Google search, a writing aid, or etc. Maybe an agent tries to book you a flight. I have non-tech friends who (reasonably, imo) say they have not much use for it at all. Even many professionals outside of math&code are in this tier. For example, execs and many other functions spend a lot of their time talking to other people, so while they understand what is happening intellectually, it is still second-hand and a bit abstract. - Now we get to professional use of frontier-grade LLMs in math&code. Somewhere around 20M people (0.2%) see first-hand that large, complex projects that used to take them weeks/months can now be completed by agents with a prompt. Building apps, copying apps, translating apps, decompiling apps from binaries... This has all happened very quickly and recently - less than 1 year ago, I was writing code manually by hand, typing memorized computer code commands into a code editor character by character, occasionally pressing Tab to autocomplete a little chunk of code. - And finally we get to the ~5,000 people (~0.00006%) with access to frontier-grade systems internally. The external world has seen the preview. It looks like swarms of thousands of agents collaborating over weeks on software mega projects: minting zero days, running cyber attacks and defenses at machine speeds, discovering new science, advancing the frontier of mathematics. Things that would have taken top professionals in the industry years of work. Meanwhile, human review and comprehension are starting to fall behind. For example, people are still involved in the "archeology" of the OpenAI-HF incident from many months ago. Mathematicians may be poring over the 722 manuscripts on frontier mathematics for a while. The funnel is driven by a combination of factors: 1. The impact scales with ambition, problem size, and horizon. A question with a paragraph answer barely stresses the system. You need a reservoir of big, difficult problems that you really care about. This aspect drives the consumer / professional dimension of the funnel. 2. The jaggedness of the system (which I have written about a lot separately). Capability peaks in domains that are digital, verifiable and economically valuable. This is because LLM capability emerges from reinforcement learning on verifiable rewards on a curated environment mixture driven by revenue potential. This aspect primarily drives the area (e.g. math&code) dimension of the funnel. 3. Access. Free-tier, paid-tier, internal. So this is the weirdness of the moment. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sliver of professionals are experiencing the vertigo of the curve going vertical. And it is all happening at the same time.

小龙虾为什么很成功，至少有两个因素是很重要的： 1. 它没有那么多权限、安全上的顾虑，能连接很多你的隐私数据，能有很高的权限运行脚本。 且不说安全性问题，但很多任务确实是少不了这些权限，Claude Cowork 我不爱用恰恰就是权限卡的太死了。 2. 它有一个 PC 作为运行环境，实时编写脚本反复尝试、消耗了大量 Token 后大力出奇迹，反正结果给你做成了 而微信 AI 这两者都不具备，既拿不到你手机多少权限，也没有一个长期稳定运行 Agent 的环境，更不会给你烧很多 Token。 指望把这个成本转嫁到小程序，问题是开发者也不傻，不可能会给你贡献 Token 的。 最终大部分场景是体现不出 Agent 能力的，用户用完会觉得这还不如直接手机上指挥 Codex、Claude Code 等

微信格局还是不够，总是想着大家都去他们家一亩三分地耕耘，还幻想着未来微信会继续是超级入口，人人都在用微信，所以只需要让 AI 去操作小程序。 但现实是，未来微信的入口属性会越来越少，以后的年轻人，不会再去打开微信，只会问自己的 Agent：去帮我总结一下我昨天的群聊，去给我妈发条消息说晚上不回家吃饭了。 而这个承担超级入口职责的 Agent，大概率不是微信 AI。