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It has value only if you know what it is talking about, thus it can only assist. If you ask it about AWS - you need to already know AWS, same with business etc

It has value only if you know what it is talking about, thus it can only assist. If you ask it about AWS - you need to already know AWS, same with business etc. And if you can't make your own elevator pitch - the odds that you will be able to run a successful company are little to none. Website builders and ready-to-use templates have been around for decades and they only increased the demand for devs. Even if GPT will be able to produce complete system from start to end - those systems will need support, fixes, etc. Sure you will need less engineers per system but the amount of systems will increase.

skor 4y ago
just to verify the code for an enterprise sized system is likely going to take longer than building it. Also consider how long it takes you to bake a feature into code you have never seen before to code that you wrote.
brushfoot 4y ago
To add to this - GPT is good at synthesizing existing information, but it's bad at combining it in truly novel ways. OP's startup idea is in a well-understood domain. There are lots of existing competitors offering basically that exact service. There are clear, obvious paths to building it. GPT can draw from blog posts and tutorials. On the other hand, it does poorly with significantly novel ideas. I tried it with one I've been working on that combines 3D printing and crafting in new ways. Its answers just regurgitated blog posts about existing combinations. It even ignored the grammar of my questions, which switched the usual direct object with the object of the preposition. Which makes sense, because it isn't doing critical thinking - it's pattern matching.
- spaniard89277 4y ago
  This is my experience too. I've tried to do simple task like building small JS scripts and while it's doable, is like having a kid who needs oversight and can't clearly connect ideas. And coding is supposedly an area where it shines. GPT is waaay better than us humans at finding and summarizing information. Way way faster. But I've tried to write a blog post about some technical stuff and I finally gave up after many tries. It's good. It's frightening already. But it's still not "there". It's like having a extremely fast but bit dumb virtual assistant. Way better than anything we had before.
- rafaelero 4y ago
  > To add to this - GPT is good at synthesizing existing information, but it's bad at combining it in truly novel ways. Is that true, though? These AIs seem pretty capable to extract abstractions, like an author's style, and apply it to novel concepts.
semireg 4y ago
Knowing about AWS was just a shortcut where steps were skipped because of prior knowledge. The user could have been more naive and asked more leading questions about “how do I write a program for the internet?” Or “what is cloud software?” Or “tell me about popular ways programmers solve problems for internet users” or some such. Become the 5 year old asking infinite “why?” And “how?” This is a conversational chat, not a one-and-done Wikipedia entry.

skor 4y ago

just to verify the code for an enterprise sized system is likely going to take longer than building it. Also consider how long it takes you to bake a feature into code you have never seen before to code that you wrote.

brushfoot 4y ago

To add to this - GPT is good at synthesizing existing information, but it's bad at combining it in truly novel ways. OP's startup idea is in a well-understood domain. There are lots of existing competitors offering basically that exact service. There are clear, obvious paths to building it. GPT can draw from blog posts and tutorials. On the other hand, it does poorly with significantly novel ideas. I tried it with one I've been working on that combines 3D printing and crafting in new ways. Its answers just regurgitated blog posts about existing combinations. It even ignored the grammar of my questions, which switched the usual direct object with the object of the preposition. Which makes sense, because it isn't doing critical thinking - it's pattern matching.

spaniard89277 4y ago
This is my experience too. I've tried to do simple task like building small JS scripts and while it's doable, is like having a kid who needs oversight and can't clearly connect ideas. And coding is supposedly an area where it shines. GPT is waaay better than us humans at finding and summarizing information. Way way faster. But I've tried to write a blog post about some technical stuff and I finally gave up after many tries. It's good. It's frightening already. But it's still not "there". It's like having a extremely fast but bit dumb virtual assistant. Way better than anything we had before.
rafaelero 4y ago
> To add to this - GPT is good at synthesizing existing information, but it's bad at combining it in truly novel ways. Is that true, though? These AIs seem pretty capable to extract abstractions, like an author's style, and apply it to novel concepts.

semireg 4y ago

Knowing about AWS was just a shortcut where steps were skipped because of prior knowledge. The user could have been more naive and asked more leading questions about “how do I write a program for the internet?” Or “what is cloud software?” Or “tell me about popular ways programmers solve problems for internet users” or some such. Become the 5 year old asking infinite “why?” And “how?” This is a conversational chat, not a one-and-done Wikipedia entry.