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interesting takes. i guess if you're using ai for basic things like that it makes sense to not like it

sokoloff 4y ago
Enlighten me, please. What’s the killer use case where you’ve seen significant leverage from an AI tool? What was the business problem and what were the resulting prompts to your AI junior dev?
- w4ffl35 4y ago
  i am trying to solve many business problems as I am building apps that allow people to use stable diffusion and LLMs locally on their own hardware without the need to install anything and i'm doing it with compiled python that I have to ensure runs on various machines. this means i have to support customers. I'm also making a couple of small games. I also have to handle marketing. the killer use case is augmenting my own workflow. i have fully integrated ai into my development pipeline. i am using chatgpt and i am using copilot. I almost never find myself turning to any other resource for information other than occasionally having to reference documentation for very obscure libraries. I also use an IDE. this gives me time to concentrate on things such as my ci/cd pipeline, architecture, UX, testing, solving how to install bitsandbytes and triton on windows and other difficult problems related to build processes that don't have clear cut solutions.
- famahar 4y ago
  I see a lot of skepticism like this on hackernews. People constantly downplaying how impressive this technology is. It's great to be critical. But most of the criticism is too stuck in the present. If it's already as good as many stackoverflow answers, what kind of potential will we see in 1 year, 3 years, a decade. This is massive paradigm shift in the way we program and this conversation thread will be look outdated in a year. So much of the tedium of programming has been eliminated in my day to day. I actually have ideas I pursue now that I know so much friction in the setup process is gone and I won't be severely blocked by bugs.
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    As a skeptic, this reads like "look how great Google search is at finding stackoverflow answers already; imagine how good it will be in a decade!"
  - w4ffl35 4y ago
    i keep emphasizing this: i don't think we'll be programming any more down the line, i think we'll be engineering with an AI assistant like tony stark. obviously i could be mistaken but it looks like things are heading in that direction.

Enlighten me, please. What’s the killer use case where you’ve seen significant leverage from an AI tool? What was the business problem and what were the resulting prompts to your AI junior dev?

w4ffl35 4y ago
i am trying to solve many business problems as I am building apps that allow people to use stable diffusion and LLMs locally on their own hardware without the need to install anything and i'm doing it with compiled python that I have to ensure runs on various machines. this means i have to support customers. I'm also making a couple of small games. I also have to handle marketing. the killer use case is augmenting my own workflow. i have fully integrated ai into my development pipeline. i am using chatgpt and i am using copilot. I almost never find myself turning to any other resource for information other than occasionally having to reference documentation for very obscure libraries. I also use an IDE. this gives me time to concentrate on things such as my ci/cd pipeline, architecture, UX, testing, solving how to install bitsandbytes and triton on windows and other difficult problems related to build processes that don't have clear cut solutions.
famahar 4y ago
I see a lot of skepticism like this on hackernews. People constantly downplaying how impressive this technology is. It's great to be critical. But most of the criticism is too stuck in the present. If it's already as good as many stackoverflow answers, what kind of potential will we see in 1 year, 3 years, a decade. This is massive paradigm shift in the way we program and this conversation thread will be look outdated in a year. So much of the tedium of programming has been eliminated in my day to day. I actually have ideas I pursue now that I know so much friction in the setup process is gone and I won't be severely blocked by bugs.
- sokoloff 4y ago
  As a skeptic, this reads like "look how great Google search is at finding stackoverflow answers already; imagine how good it will be in a decade!"
- w4ffl35 4y ago
  i keep emphasizing this: i don't think we'll be programming any more down the line, i think we'll be engineering with an AI assistant like tony stark. obviously i could be mistaken but it looks like things are heading in that direction.