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> AI will make jobs just more specialised and output of knowledge worker a lot faster. If the user is skilled enough at prompt engineering to get good answers
by sublinear 4y ago
> AI will make jobs just more specialised and output of knowledge worker a lot faster.
If the user is skilled enough at prompt engineering to get good answers (i.e. code that compiles and does what they want) the answers can still be objectively worse than search results for stackoverflow or github in many cases.
Seems like the current state of chat bots is that it's slower than either making a regular search or simply just knowing what to write in the first place. Shouldn't be a surprise, but a mid to senior engineer doesn't spend their whole day googling stuff to copy and paste. They read the docs for about 5 minutes and then get things done in the precious couple of hours they have between meetings. I don't think it gets much faster than that. I sincerely doubt the nontechnical people in the meetings would get a good enough answer from ChatGPT that fast and they certainly wouldn't want to slam their head against a wall learning everything the dev already knows, no less in a higher level and imprecise "natural" language.