Btw is someone gonna tell the AI companies that version numbers don’t measure anything? Like an improvement on Claude/GPT-3 can’t just go to GPT-3.5 what happened to 3.1, 3.2 etc? When you get to 3.9 the next bump doesn’t have to be 4, they know that right?

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I think it’s a great marketing move though, they kind of set “feature acceleration” with each version.
Like 3 -> 3.5: selling as something better
3.5->4: selling as something significantly better.

Great move but definitely makes my semver brain module to cry.

AI numbering conventions don’t follow software development conventions and, at this point, likely never will
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That’s why I’m a big fan of date versioning like 2024.3.1. So even in 5 years you exactly know when a version has been shipped.