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> Spot on. Current environment feels like the self-driving car hype cycle. There have been a lot of bold promises (and genuine advances), but I don't see a worl
by petesergeant 2y ago
> Spot on. Current environment feels like the self-driving car hype cycle. There have been a lot of bold promises (and genuine advances), but I don't see a world in the next 5 years where AI writes useful software by itself.
My worry is that we get an overnight sea-change like 4o image generation. The current tools aren't good enough for anything other than one-shotting, and then suddenly overnight, they're good enough to put a lot of people out of work.
- impjohn 2y agoHm. The 'prompt obedience' was definitely a huge step up, but there's a huge number of acceptable results to an image generation prompt, while for coding usually there a handful, many times just one right solution. So I don't think this parallel here is telling