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I find it reasonably useful given these conditions: 1. I know what I want. 2. I don't know off the top of my head how to accomplish it. 3. However, I do know

I find it reasonably useful given these conditions: 1. I know what I want. 2. I don't know off the top of my head how to accomplish it. 3. However, I do know enough to tell whether what the AI generated works right. So for me it covers cases like "I know databases and I know programming, but I don't know enough Python to do a DB query without looking for docs. Have Copilot generate some working sample code, and then I can pick things up from there". I'm sure bigger things can be done but I think just that alone is extremely useful. Saves a bunch of time on googling, making it past all the ads, the requests to subscribe, the far too long introductions, etc. Sometimes all I want is 20 lines of sample code and nothing else, and AI seems to do very well at that without leaving the IDE.

BriggyDwiggs42 2y ago
I’m really not looking forward to the day when they start serving ads through LLMs. Hopefully local is solid enough by then to do most of the same stuff.
mandevil 2y ago
Give OpenAI 25 years and they're going to be throwing up plenty of ads in our faces. Source: I remember using Google in 1999. Momento mori to anything raising tens of billions of dollars from VCs and PE's. The UX is going to get much worse, surprisingly quickly.
- dale_glass 2y ago
  LLMs already can be run on expensive consumer hardware (eg, a higher end Mac Studio), so I expect that to be quite temporary.
  - DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
    It’s not about running an LLM that serves/doesnt-serve up ads, it’s about making one by yourself so you know it won’t serve up ads.
- yndoendo 2y ago
  They will just make it more subtle. User: How do I do X? AI: Well {FAANG} has this great product ... AI: This is how you do X but doing Y which is just like X you can save $100 a month with {MAMAA}. User: I just want to do X. AI: It is too complicated for a single person to do X. Why not contact {BUSINESS} and they can do it for you because they specialize in X. AI: Are you sure you don't want to save money with {MAMMA}. Here is a coupon to save even more.

BriggyDwiggs42 2y ago

I’m really not looking forward to the day when they start serving ads through LLMs. Hopefully local is solid enough by then to do most of the same stuff.

mandevil 2y ago

Give OpenAI 25 years and they're going to be throwing up plenty of ads in our faces. Source: I remember using Google in 1999. Momento mori to anything raising tens of billions of dollars from VCs and PE's. The UX is going to get much worse, surprisingly quickly.

dale_glass 2y ago
LLMs already can be run on expensive consumer hardware (eg, a higher end Mac Studio), so I expect that to be quite temporary.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
  It’s not about running an LLM that serves/doesnt-serve up ads, it’s about making one by yourself so you know it won’t serve up ads.
yndoendo 2y ago
They will just make it more subtle. User: How do I do X? AI: Well {FAANG} has this great product ... AI: This is how you do X but doing Y which is just like X you can save $100 a month with {MAMAA}. User: I just want to do X. AI: It is too complicated for a single person to do X. Why not contact {BUSINESS} and they can do it for you because they specialize in X. AI: Are you sure you don't want to save money with {MAMMA}. Here is a coupon to save even more.