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Ask HN: I don't use AI. What exactly am I missing out on?

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Re: Ask HN: I don't use AI. What exactly am I missing out on?

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It doesn’t enhance your life. Nor anyone else’s. It’s just a gold rush we have to endure.

In recent years people have been learning about the importance of data security and recognizing tue addictiveness of social media. People are pulling back from the madness that surrounded social media 5 years ago.

AI will go through a similar cycle. Right now people are making wild claims about it that are easily debunked. But investors are going to keep pushing this stuff in our faces for a while.

We will learn as a society to put AI in its proper place.

Anyway, I have done extensive experiments with it. It’s not very reliable at anything. The policy of the companies producing these things is not to test them much before releasing. So, I doubt reliability will much improve.

Re: Ask HN: I don't use AI. What exactly am I missing out on?

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I am a bit of a greybeard around new tools, and even today my usage of ChatGPT is limited, so I will give my 2c. You're right, in most cases, Google + Github search is faster to achieve a certain task vs typing out your problem and waiting for ChatGPT to generate results (personal opinion). Nonetheless, here are a few things where ChatGPT saves a lot of time: 1. Generating config files: Eg, Webpack, Docker-compose. D…

> Google + Github search

GitHub Search is my favorite tool and I don't think most people realize how powerful it is or how much they can rely on it. You can get so much intel from there, not just about how to use a library, but even esoteric URLs or some fingerprints that are only in a site you're trying to scrape or an app you're trying to reverse engineer... it's saved me a ton of time and is a great way to find specific resources that I'd never know existed otherwise.

Co-Pilot is also great but it's hard to explain why without just telling you to try it yourself. It's basically a super advanced auto-complete, but it's also more than that... it feels like a second brain that is running one thought ahead of you at all times. Sometimes I'm thinking through a problem and I just press tab and it's already thought of the solution.

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