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Are there people who actually believe that a user would enter a text prompt than a human programmer would generate the code?

tomasphan 1y ago
Yes, 90% of people with no tech background reading the news
- pyman 1y ago
  They don't know the difference between AI and ChatGPT
TiredOfLife 1y ago
Majority of HN commenters
apwell23 1y ago
that was not the flow
- wnevets 1y ago
  But it was the flow in the examples.
dd_xplore 1y ago
Unfortunately a lot of people!!
hluska 1y ago
Builder.ai had a totally different flow, but yeah, when boring stories and exciting ones compete to tell the same story, a very large percentage will run with the exciting story. It’s like death tax in US political history - the US has never had a death tax but it’s way more exciting to call it a death tax than an estate tax. Only now, instead of media being the primary disseminator of spin, we have people sharing exciting stories on social media instead of boring stories about building internal zoom and accounting issues. Then social animals kick in, likes pour in and more people share. Social media has created a world where an exciting lie can drown out boring truth for a large percentage of people.
DebtDeflation 1y ago
My assumption when the story broke was that the 700 engineers were using various AI tools (Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) to create code and documentation and then stitching it all together somewhat manually. Sort of like that original Devin demo where AI was being used at each step but there was a ton of manual intervention along the way and the final video was edited to make it seem as if the whole thing ran end to end fully automated all from the initial prompt.
TuringNYC 1y ago
I worked with an "AI data vendor" at work where you'd put in a query and "the AI gave you back a dataset" but it usually took 24hrs, so it was obvious they had humans pulling the data. The company still purchased a data plan. It happens, in this case, they have a unique dataset, though.

tomasphan 1y ago

Yes, 90% of people with no tech background reading the news

pyman 1y ago
They don't know the difference between AI and ChatGPT

TiredOfLife 1y ago

Majority of HN commenters

apwell23 1y ago

that was not the flow

wnevets 1y ago
But it was the flow in the examples.

dd_xplore 1y ago

Unfortunately a lot of people!!

hluska 1y ago

Builder.ai had a totally different flow, but yeah, when boring stories and exciting ones compete to tell the same story, a very large percentage will run with the exciting story. It’s like death tax in US political history - the US has never had a death tax but it’s way more exciting to call it a death tax than an estate tax. Only now, instead of media being the primary disseminator of spin, we have people sharing exciting stories on social media instead of boring stories about building internal zoom and accounting issues. Then social animals kick in, likes pour in and more people share. Social media has created a world where an exciting lie can drown out boring truth for a large percentage of people.

DebtDeflation 1y ago

My assumption when the story broke was that the 700 engineers were using various AI tools (Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) to create code and documentation and then stitching it all together somewhat manually. Sort of like that original Devin demo where AI was being used at each step but there was a ton of manual intervention along the way and the final video was edited to make it seem as if the whole thing ran end to end fully automated all from the initial prompt.

TuringNYC 1y ago

I worked with an "AI data vendor" at work where you'd put in a query and "the AI gave you back a dataset" but it usually took 24hrs, so it was obvious they had humans pulling the data. The company still purchased a data plan. It happens, in this case, they have a unique dataset, though.