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> And many will prevail in sizes you can't even imagine. Been more than a year, still waiting. Sure, it might take 50. But the AI craziness is made no less cr
by pdimitar 2y ago
> And many will prevail in sizes you can't even imagine.
Been more than a year, still waiting.
Sure, it might take 50. But the AI craziness is made no less crazy in the meantime. Way too much time and money thrown for fairly marginal benefits.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoStill waiting for what? When OpenAI gets another 100 billion net worth? Marginal benefits? Even just Github Copilot itself is absolutely worth it, itself probably a billion dollar company, and changed the world.
- pdimitar 2y agoNo, waiting for "AI" to be more than super-niche useful. I am saying that way too much money has been poured in for the fairly underwhelming results that we get.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoSoftware engineering is a huge industry in which AI has produced enough results to make it all worthwhile. Image generation is another. I personally know a business owner - it's an online grocery store - who used AI generated pictures to reduce costs by 10s of thousands of Euro, it's what made the business possible. (The pictures are cartoonish, nobody thinks it's a real photo)
- pdimitar 2y agoIf you say so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I have only seen it introduce friction and keep seniors busy code-reviewing the subtle mistakes that the so-called "AI" does.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoYour seniors are not senior then. None of my seniors would commit these subtle mistakes. Find people who can do that and AI gives them superpower.
- pdimitar 2y agoI view the time of hand-crafting good code a better investment than spending the same time (and sometimes more) carefully eye-balling tool output that is almost guaranteed to contain subtle mistakes and correct them.
- thrw42A8N 2y agoI don't have this problem at all, and yet I use Copilot daily since it was closed beta. The output I get is very helpful, indeed sometimes wrong but it's very much outweighed by the successes. I sometimes turn it off to remember how it used to be, and it's just terrible. It actually makes me and my team 10x devs.
- pdimitar 2y agoYour point being? That it does not happen to you, means it never happens to anyone else?