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I feel like the AI hype is big, but there are lots of us who just build normal things and who's jobs cannot allow or make use of LLMs properly. Popular culture

I feel like the AI hype is big, but there are lots of us who just build normal things and who's jobs cannot allow or make use of LLMs properly. Popular culture has always been easy to influence. We had blockchain hype, OOP hype, AI hype, Microservices hype, we had so many and they were ALL mostly a fad that resulted in yet-another-tool in the toolbelt of engineers -- nothing more, nothing less. Good on you for using the right tools to build a new thing!

LarsenCC 1y ago
Agree! I got stuck using hype/trendy solutions to solve problems for far too long... This was proof that sometimes all it takes is a super simple solution.
dude250711 1y ago
True! At the end of the day, it's a multiplier - just like many other dev hype fads e.g. Python/JavaScript poorly-typed fad of 2010s - devs who do not know what they are doing are just producing worse tech debt at a higher rate. Same with microservices or misusing HTML to make UIs instead of documents etc.
echelon 1y ago
LLMs are a good search replacement, but they're not task automation. Codegen AI is great for tab-complete. It does save typing, and it is pretty smart, but you still have to have an engineer in the seat that is paying attention and knows what they're doing. Video AI on the other hand is already disrupting Hollywood. The costs are 10,000x cheaper, the delivery time is 100,000x faster, and it's accessible with 1,000x less personnel. These are insane numbers. Multiple orders of magnitude - full step function change - across multiple dimensions at once. You still need to have an editor and VFX person to make video AI work, and you still need to incorporate photon-on-glass footage, but it's remarkable how usable these tools are. A small studio with five people can use AI tools to do serious work that would ordinarily take 100 people or more and require huge budgets. This isn't just hypothesizing - I work in this industry. This is not only myself, but this is dozens of the studios I talk to and work with. Just to cite one example, there's a studio I know that used to bid $300k on projects. You've seen their work - they do Netflix show intro sequences, pharmaceutical ads, etc. They're now bidding just $50k and winning projects left and right. I think the biggest area of AI investment and disruption is going to be video AI.
- code_for_monkey 1y ago
  i believe you but wow this feels so bleak
- LarsenCC 1y ago
  I think browser automation using LLMs is still huge tho (I'm biased haha)
- vagrantJin 1y ago
  On the videogen, one would expect small, scrappy studios to get some tools to get further on their projects. What one has observed is that it is the large behemoths that are overzealous in their use of AI tools, despite the fact that they can produce work, have the budget and expertise to make it happen. Baffling.
  - echelon 1y ago
    The small studios have the same tools.

LarsenCC 1y ago

Agree! I got stuck using hype/trendy solutions to solve problems for far too long... This was proof that sometimes all it takes is a super simple solution.

dude250711 1y ago

True! At the end of the day, it's a multiplier - just like many other dev hype fads e.g. Python/JavaScript poorly-typed fad of 2010s - devs who do not know what they are doing are just producing worse tech debt at a higher rate. Same with microservices or misusing HTML to make UIs instead of documents etc.

echelon 1y ago

LLMs are a good search replacement, but they're not task automation. Codegen AI is great for tab-complete. It does save typing, and it is pretty smart, but you still have to have an engineer in the seat that is paying attention and knows what they're doing. Video AI on the other hand is already disrupting Hollywood. The costs are 10,000x cheaper, the delivery time is 100,000x faster, and it's accessible with 1,000x less personnel. These are insane numbers. Multiple orders of magnitude - full step function change - across multiple dimensions at once. You still need to have an editor and VFX person to make video AI work, and you still need to incorporate photon-on-glass footage, but it's remarkable how usable these tools are. A small studio with five people can use AI tools to do serious work that would ordinarily take 100 people or more and require huge budgets. This isn't just hypothesizing - I work in this industry. This is not only myself, but this is dozens of the studios I talk to and work with. Just to cite one example, there's a studio I know that used to bid $300k on projects. You've seen their work - they do Netflix show intro sequences, pharmaceutical ads, etc. They're now bidding just $50k and winning projects left and right. I think the biggest area of AI investment and disruption is going to be video AI.

code_for_monkey 1y ago
i believe you but wow this feels so bleak
LarsenCC 1y ago
I think browser automation using LLMs is still huge tho (I'm biased haha)
vagrantJin 1y ago
On the videogen, one would expect small, scrappy studios to get some tools to get further on their projects. What one has observed is that it is the large behemoths that are overzealous in their use of AI tools, despite the fact that they can produce work, have the budget and expertise to make it happen. Baffling.
- echelon 1y ago
  The small studios have the same tools.