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The author of this article is missing whats really going on: Hard novel things are still hard and valuable, easy things are now super easy and really aren't va
by jppope 8mo ago
The author of this article is missing whats really going on:
Hard novel things are still hard and valuable, easy things are now super easy and really aren't valuable anymore.
Lets take an easy thing... like a meal planning app or a todo list or something. Its what we would all call a weekend project, but in 2022 it would be hard to develop, get the legal stuff reviewed, do the marketing, and do all the rest of the operations in a few weeks. That stuff is basically a series of prompts now.
Now lets look at a hard thing, such as decreasing the cost of titanium production (courtesy of orca: https://www.orcasciences.com/articles/there-has-to-be-a-better-way-to-make-titanium https://www.orcasciences.com/articles/there-has-to-be-a-bett...)... to be able to scale operations and bring the cost down you are going to have to do some real science and engineering... LLMs can certainly help you, but this challenge is a far cry from something that an LLM can handle.
*Novel things have just become MUCH MUCH more valuable, slop is way way less valuable*