This was my fist ever conversation with Da-Vinci model:
https://imgur.com/a/9Cj39MV
Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
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Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
#642When playing busy Dota 2 (realtime game), it was crashing sometimes. I asked Claude Code any advice (without any hope) and it debugged somehow that I have unstable IP address and a rented VPS server will improve my connection. I could not believe, it worked…
Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
#643Maybe my daily work is rather mundane compared to most people who frequent HN but I am able to create, think about, refine and then go through review cycles at least 2 or 3 times more quickly than I used to.
And software that I can imagine I might want to "make" or have at my fingertips is readily available even though I have a busy schedule with very little free time!
Also, I love feeling like a manager whose direct report actually does what I tell it to. Crazy good feeling.
Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
#644When playing busy Dota 2 (realtime game), it was crashing sometimes. I asked Claude Code any advice (without any hope) and it debugged somehow that I have unstable IP address and a rented VPS server will improve my connection. I could not believe, it worked…
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Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
#645My "I saw this very early" claim deserves some skepticism, but...
Don't y'all remember GPT2? When they published that AI-generated unicorns-in-the-Andes article, my jaw was on the floor. I remember very clearly thinking "oh, history is now divided into the time before this moment and the time after it".
There's been a long series of "oh holy shit this is USEFUL NOW" moments in the last 2 years but none of them compare to that first moment. The day before, I didn't know if real AI was possible. Then one day it was suddenly clear that it was. And if you'd been thinking about AI at all it was obvious that if the technology was at all possible, it was gonna be a really fucking big deal sooner or later.
Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
#646Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know this isn't apples to apples, but given that I can't get Copilot or other tools to view a simple profile page on LinkedIn makes me curious/skeptical how this would work in this depth. I'm sure it's possible but I'm curious what the skills and toolchains involved were for you to get all that to work.
Claude Code (or Codex, or OpenCode, or Pi, or Amp — whatever) can do this out of the box without any skills or special tools. The most important thing for making results like this easier to achieve (in any harness) is using the best current models. Right now that's Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5.
I mean you can likely use Opus 4.7. I barely notice a difference. 4.8 confabulates more for me
Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
#647Not sure, but I can tell you what my "oh s** astroturfing is so bad, it's even in Hacker News" moment. And if I learned GenAI was used to make some of the astroturf, that's more an "ah s* “ than an "oh s* “ thing. I mean, the prominence, ubiquity, and breathlessness. One out of three, sure. Two out of three, maybe. And some corpo shilling definitely happens here. But this is like, well, covering an entire area with a…
FWIW the OP passes as 100% human in Pangram https://www.pangram.com/history/d33dcbcd-e82b-4ce0-bea5-e4ee... Reddit is definitely overtaken with astroturf at this point. Especially in any subreddit where there is any kind of business interest in doing so.
The UX on this tool is atrocious, on mobile how do i get to the home or landing page?
Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
#648When I used google to get the ieee-488 commands of an arbitrary wave generator from the 80s whose manual doesn't exist on the internet. This is a very long tail search, but by the end of the day I had enough to fully utilize a very sophisticated equipment.
To clarify: I used that "AI" thing google has next go the search
Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
#649Very early on, when Github Copilot was brand new and the first AI autocomplete that was in the IDE. I had a file TODO.txt, and was adding a line, and it suggested a next feature that demonstrated actual understanding of what my app was and its purpose, despite me not having documented that anywhere.
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