It was interacting with GPT-4 and it produced an original sentence that existed nowhere I could find. I realized that being able to do that was the "nugget" of intelligence that all improvements since could be built on
Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
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#162I use claude code on a daily basis, but honestly it becomes more annoying the more I use it. Why? I think because I ask it to do something and unless I'm extremely specific, either the code is verbose or the feature I'm designing is done in a poor way. For me, the productivity gains aren't that great and I'm even considering whether to go back to doing things by hand to save myself the frustration. Sure, if you don't…
Yeah I'm the same way. They seem great when you ask it to build something unspecified, like "build me a todo app" or something. It's like magic. But when you know what the code needs to look like and can't accept anything else they just become so frustrating to use, and I doubt there is a productivity improvement there.
I think we will find ways to make them useful though. I imagine eventually it'll just be built into our editors and we don't even be thinking about AI or "agents" or "prompting", our tools will just be more capable.
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#163MidJourney public discord channel.
The amount of masterpiece level art flowing per hour was astounding.
For every one doing a ninja waifu, there were ten doing art from davinci and leonardo crossed with hockney.
it almost gave you art sickness
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#164I have a buddy who's a consultant. His niche area is Netsuite and Oracle (I think). He's an accountant by training and as a consultant his gig was setting up these instances for clients, charging them an arm and two legs. He'd spend a lot of time golfing, and doing these setups was more than enough money for him. In other words, he had cornered that little slice of the market and was making bank. Shortly after ChatGP…
Sometimes it's the service you provide, not the value. They know it's in good hands, as it's always been (even if they could have rolled their own ConsultBot 2.0)
I have some friends who, since their high school days help some older acquaintances in upgrading their PCs, choosing laptops and phones, helping with setup etc and these older folks have comfortable money and pay him very well above what would seem reasonable. But the trust and years long relationship matter to them.
Llms are great today for buying advice but there are some incentive issues for the future, ads etc. But in some cases the human contact will remain important. In large corporations it's also similar. The money is peanuts either way, and it's worth them for the peace of mind. But this may not hold forever, especially if the more AI literate generation gets to more senior positions.
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#165From actual use I've not had a "oh shit" panicked moment yet. More like a bunch of "Holy shit" euphoric moments. So far I feel like I as a developer have gained actual superpowers, and can deliver results that make my stakeholders slackjawed with awe. I love it. It will last perhaps a few months more, then they'll expect it. Delivering more features faster will be the new normal. But I think system developers, as in…
I do genuinely wonder if you’re correct that other people will begin to expect it. I feel I was suddenly able to do stunning stuff about a year ago, and I recall thinking this is nice but everyone will catch on to my secret soon and I won’t be exceptional any more. But 12 months have passed and I don’t think this has really panned out yet. Weaker engineers just don’t seem to understand that they can just ask AI things. Eg the other day another engineer spent like 3 hours trying to hunt down a particular line of code so I asked AI and it found it in like 5 minutes. I showed that to him, but then he immediately got stuck trying to find something else for a few more hours, so again I asked AI etc. It’s very baffling.
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#166My "oh shit" moments come every time I see people glazing AI
"Oh shit. My skills I spent my life building are going to go to zero value. I'm going to have to dramatically change careers in my forties or I'm just going to wind up being a schmuck prompting these stupid fucking machines for the rest of my life"
Oh shit indeed
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#167There was a viral Medium post that was about LLMs but then there was a reveal at the end was that the whole thing was a ChatGPT post. That was my first "wow" moment.
It was on hackernews... anyone know what I'm talking about?
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#168We were experiencing abnormally high electrical bills and I could not figure out what was happening, so I downloaded the granular usage data (15 min increments) from Duke Energy, explained what we had in our house and when we typically used those items (washer/dryer, EVs, etc), provided a rundown of our energy usage plan, then asked Claude to build me a Streamlit dashboard that would help us understand what was going…
This can be a product.
Going from one off prototype to robust product is a huge leap.
I think these ephemeral context tailored projects are really great and useful. But these are not to be thought of as products. They work for you specifically, and people who are tech-brained enough to be able to formulate the complex requirements into a coherent prompt are not like the average user you'd have to sell a product to. It's much easier to make software to intelligent users.
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#169While debugging some issues in some system Claude refused to write test case because it broke terms of use.
Oh shit, all this fantastic technology is in hands of corporations and they get to decide what we’re allowed to use it for.
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#170Every time I review a new PR to my codebase, I go "oh shit, these unit tests are garbage, they've clearly been vibecoded" and tell the contributor to rewrite the unit tests so they do more than just game the coverage metrics.