expectations are interesting things... i was impressed with chatgpt, though not blown away as it's simply the latest in a chain of increasingly impressive resea

expectations are interesting things... i was impressed with chatgpt, though not blown away as it's simply the latest in a chain of increasingly impressive research demos. substantially though my experience was the same as yours, though perhaps i'm more forgiving (haskell does have a reverse function application operator, just using a different symbol, and you can get |> in scala via a commonly-used library). i guess one difference might be that i also tried a variety of tasks where confabulation was called for, like making up games and getting it to play them with me. all of this certainly does seem farther from productizability than the optimists admit... it tantalizingly 'almost works' in so many domains, but despite the rate of progress, its not obvious at all to me that it will soon converging on the reliability which is necessary for robust application. playing with the tech in more creative areas has certainly expanded my mind as to what is and what may become possible, and i think this is true of the general reaction as well... it's the flashes of strangeness and potential, the weird use cases like simulated command lines and ascii art games, the cat-and-mouse of prompt injection... not hard to let your imagination run wild... depending on how much disbelief you're willing to suspend.