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Maybe I suffer the same fear as op, but I think this is different. The cost to create software is rapidly decreasing with tools like this. For most people on H
by great_psy 4y ago
Maybe I suffer the same fear as op, but I think this is different.
The cost to create software is rapidly decreasing with tools like this. For most people on HN making software is how they pay their bills.
If I was paying my bills with injection moulding, I would try to be on top of 3D printing as well.
- Jensson 4y agoBut AI today isn't useful enough to make a dent and AI tomorrow will require different skills. Spending lots of time figuring out good prompt structure etc for current AI will likely not translate well at all to what a good prompt will look like in future models, that will just be waste of space in your brain.
- p1esk 4y agoYou don’t need to get “on top of it” right now. The technology is not ready yet. Give it a few more years.
- krageon 4y agoThe cost to create software hasn't lowered yet, and it is a stretch to assume new tools (which historically speaking are likely to cost more than they'll deliver, while being used anyway) will definitely make a dent in that. In most organisations software engineering cost doesn't have anything to do with available engineering capacity and is instead overhead from endless folks who want to have input on all decisions, which no amount of AI will solve (well, I guess something like Skynet would...).
- is_true 4y agoFor now I think copilot is a really powerful prototyping tool. I'm using it as a MVP helper, if something sticks I just rewrite the functionality