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100% agree with this, sometimes I feel I'm becoming too reliant on it - but I step back and see how much more ambitious of projects I take on, and finish quickl

• hombre_fatal 2y ago
  Claude 3.7 basically one-shot a multiplayer game's server-authority rollback netcode with client-side prediction and interpolation. I spent months of my life in my 20s trying to build a non-janky implementation of that and failed which was really demoralizing. Over the last couple weekends I got farther than I was able to get in weeks or months. And when I get stumped, I have the confidence of being able to rubber-duck my way through it with an LLM if it can't outright fix it itself. Though I also often wonder how much time I have left professionally in software. I try not to think about that. :D
  • xandrius 2y ago
    You know the 80/20 "rule"? Well, that last 20% is what I believe will keep us around. AI is going to be a great multiplier but if the base is 0, you can multiply it by whatever you want. I feel ChatGPT-like products are like outsourcing to cheaper countries, it might work for some but for anyone else, now they have to hire more expensive people to fix/redo the work done by the cheaper labor. This seems to be exactly the same but using AI.