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>>tablet+(OP)
I’d love to see the authors of effusive praise of generative AI like this provide the proof of the unlimited powers of their tools in code. If GAI (or agents, or whatever comes next …) is so effective it should be quite simple to prove that by creating an AI only company and in short order producing huge amounts of serviceable code to do useful things. So far I’ve seen no sign of this, and the best use case seems to be generating text or artwork which fools humans into thinking it has coherent meaning as our minds love to fill gaps and spot patterns even where there are none. It’s also pretty good at reproducing things it has seen with variations - that can be useful.

So far in my experience watching small to medium sized companies try to use it for real work, it has been occasionally useful for exploring apis, odd bits of knowledge etc, but overall wasted more time than it has saved. I see very few signs of progress.

The time has come for llm users to put up or shut up - if it’s so great, stop telling us and show and use the code it generated on its own.

>>grey-a+ba
If you read post, the article is mostly agreeing with you. What they're pointing out is not "the AI can do everything you do", it's that "an AI coder can do a lot of the boring typing a lot faster than you, leaving you right at the point of 'real implementation'".

Having something else write a lot of the boring code that you'll need and then you finish up the final touches, that's amazing and a huge accelerator (so they claim).

The claim is not "AI will replace us all", the claim of the parent article is "AI is a big deal and will change how we work, the same way IDEs/copy-paste/autocomplete/online documentation have radically changed our work."

>>leland+Me
> an AI coder can do a lot of the boring typing a lot faster than you, leaving you right at the point of 'real implementation

Vim and bash solved that for me a long time ago in a more reliable and efficient way (and it's certainly not the only tool capable of that).

> the same way IDEs/copy-paste/autocomplete/online documentation have radically changed our work

I was there before and went in the autocomplete/lsp thing pretty late (because Vim didn't have good lsp support for a long time, and Vim without it was still making me more efficient than any other IDE with it). Those things didn't radically change our work as you claim, it just made us a bit more productive.