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Of course

I had to laugh yesterday when Claude went and changed a feature I didnt want or ask to be changed and the suggested message was something along the lines of revert the change to it. Like it knew I wouldnt like it but did it anyway

Most games today can be ripped day 1 and they're doing fine. Pirates are a tiny minority

It takes me all of 2 keypresses to switch models. I don't know of a less sticky product

Many people wouldn't find that easy, even with AI

> you have no way to verify that the work is actually done correctly. People will absolutely take advantage of your ignorance.

Is that avoidable? Learning it yourself doesn't scale to more complex things. I can't go through medical school just to verify that my doctor's recommendations are good

An independent electrician can take on an extra job to make more income, or less work if they don't need it. Is that not a variable that can be adjusted?

I agree that most people aren't in that situation and they're dependent on a specific employer giving them work, but it's not an impossible situation.

> You have to make the extra $100 per hour to pay the $30. So the employer has to agree to hire you for more hours

This sounds like you're dependent on your one employer for work. That might be the most important thing to become independent of!

If you can make $100/hr and can pay a contractor $30/hr to do something, why should you do it yourself (especially if you work full time and would rather use your free time for something else)?

If the skill is quick to learn, does it make sense to pre-learn it (and maintain the skill!), or just have the resources on hand to learn it if necessary?

I think this is presupposing that your skills are fixed and if anything happens you're stuck with always being dependent on others even if it's a really bad deal for you. That's not the case for most of these

Office jobs sitting in front of a computer are also pretty hard on your body, albeit in a different way

We haven't even built an AI capable of RSI. I don't think the major claim is that it will come via LLMs? Besides- the human brain runs on a tiny amount of energy. Who's to say something smarter than us won't consume just slightly more?

AI safety has been a thing long before LLMs became the focus. Rob Miles on youtube has some really interesting non-doomer non-hypey videos on it all.

> doomers try to predict past the singularity. Isn't that _by definition_ unpredictable

Well you don't need to predict the exact steps that will take place - but you can predict that the AI will want certain things (money, resources, power) to achieve whatever its goal is. Lack of alignment will have it trying to do things we don't want it to.

I can't predict exactly how Magnus Carlson will beat you in chess, but I know he'll do it. Same as if a superintelligent AI exists and has a reason to accumulate things we don't want it to - it's really dangerous to think it won't be able to do it

This topic has been tainted so badly by the AI companies using it for marketing.

One of the last things developers had to offer was being able to guide the AI to write maintainable code. Now that it can do that there's not a whole lot left It's understandable why that's hard to accept

God I hope the prices drop quick. Once they stop subsidizing it these kinds of workflows will be unaffordable for anyone who isn't already wealthy

I read the comment yesterday and had no clue. Just read to me as someone way too enthused about it. Damn

I'm not sure a chat interface is a good UX for a lot of use cases. I want my emails as a list of emails, not an explanation of what that list contains

I saw they're rolling out the done-to-death personal finance Mint-competitor and it's the exact same issue. At first it was interesting.. then when it comes to actually using it it's just not a fluid UX

yeah, I hope you're right. I find it hard to imagine how non or mildly-technical people would use it differently

I think people are missing the point. To fix the sloppiness all you need is a non-technical person who wanted the site/app to tell it what to fix. Either way the technical middle-person is gone

They don't do it by default all the time but if prompted to they're pretty good at designing and refactoring code

I'm increasingly finding my job is just making sure they don't go off the rails, and if they do it's a small effort of getting them back on track

If you have a product manager directing the AI (instead of developers) to build what they want then it will make sense.

Because those don't increase business revenue. People aren't making their buying decisions off that

You're not crazy. I think there's still room for the top 5% of devs working on genuinely hard technical problems.. but I don't see a bright future for the rest.

How is this different than working at a company with hundreds of developers, on a massive codebase? Do you ever really understand the entirety of that?

My guess is Google and Apple are going to eventually take all the market share for this "app builder" category. They own the device market-share and can offer way better integration

hows your experience been?

DreamWeaver and WordPress both had limits on the complexity of site they could build. If you wanted more than what they can do, you look to web developers.

That limitation doesn't exist with ChatGPT

Steve Jobs' product couldn't be trivially cloned, fast, with a cheap AI subscription available to any one of the billions of people on the planet

A well designed, well built physical product has a far higher barrier to entry

Even if your customers won't do it, there are endless people who are willing to compete with you if they see you making any money

Nothing because the bots that have already been developed over the last 20 years are much more efficient

Cheapen to whom? If you're building software for yourself I don't think this matters a whole lot as long as its valuable to you

If you're building it to sell.. I don't see how this doesn't commodify most products if a competitor can just clone what you're selling with minimal effort

what do your prompts / your workflow look like?

> An LLM today sure can do many many many business-speak conversion tasks

Not reliably, and not without supervision. That's the main point. I'm trying really hard to figure out a workflow that doesn't require me to review the code and I just don't see how it's possible (yet)

You either need a comprehensive test suite (which requires understanding the code in order to create) or you need to review the actual implementation code to make sure it does the right thing