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As always, you still have to bring your own ideas and hustle to the table. The difference is that GPT flattens the learning curve on a lot of things that would previously prevent you from executing on your ideas and it helps keep the momentum up when you hit the hard part of the grind.
It’s amazing for prototypes and writing utility functions, but for fully scalable and supportable architecture it’s a long ways off. Likewise, it often generates very complex and confusing code - specifically regex in my experience where I can get the job done in a much more readable way. Don’t get me wrong, I use it all day as a little coding helper, but while it can say, advise you on how to set up a distributed sy…
The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals
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#272> Within 5 months, I single-handedly launched 5 iOS apps. > Staying in any company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage. Isn't it obvious that this doesn't work if _everyone_ does it? Also, if the bar we use to measure how useful a tool is for society, is that it allows an individual to release 1 app per month, then we're doomed whether before AIs take over or not.
Why not? We could have 1000 small businesses instead of one business with 1000 employees.
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#273Corporations serve a purpose - to organize human labor to fulfill a greater task that usually cannot be completed by an individual. So while I don't disagree that GPT-4 in the hands of a layperson programmer may suddenly turn them into a 10x developer, I don't know if that fact alone allows that individual to create great things. In addition, there will be a great crowding out effect. If websites and apps are so easy…
Perhaps it will be the opposite. There's a lot of domain experts out there that might be able to turn their idea into reality.
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#274Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s amazing for prototypes and writing utility functions, but for fully scalable and supportable architecture it’s a long ways off. Likewise, it often generates very complex and confusing code - specifically regex in my experience where I can get the job done in a much more readable way. Don’t get me wrong, I use it all day as a little coding helper, but while it can say, advise you on how to set up a distributed sy…
Yeah people haven’t used GPT enough if they think it can do all these things. Same with AutoGPT - it’s a total joke that got hyped up to high heavens. Go try to make it actually do anything of value and watch it struggle to parse Google results and get stuck in an infinite loop every time. LangChain has the right idea because you must break down the task to small parts and program the thing to do the correct thing af…
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> If you can make something using AI, so can everyone else The idea / creativity is hence the key. Novel ideas don't occur to everyone.
If it's trivial to implement someone else can just take your idea and easily spin up a competitor, devaluing your idea.
(The delay may sometimes be negative. I'm reminded of a few cases where someone made a successful Kickstarter, only to discover mid-way through fundraising that factories in China are already busy manufacturing their product for someone else.)
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
As always, you still have to bring your own ideas and hustle to the table. The difference is that GPT flattens the learning curve on a lot of things that would previously prevent you from executing on your ideas and it helps keep the momentum up when you hit the hard part of the grind.
It’s amazing for prototypes and writing utility functions, but for fully scalable and supportable architecture it’s a long ways off. Likewise, it often generates very complex and confusing code - specifically regex in my experience where I can get the job done in a much more readable way. Don’t get me wrong, I use it all day as a little coding helper, but while it can say, advise you on how to set up a distributed sy…
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the point the grandparent was making was that GPT-4 can teach you how to use an under-documented API. that means the relevant docs are either sparse or non-existent, otherwise there wouldn't be a need to ask GPT-4 in the first place.
No, that wasn’t my point. You don’t need docs, just feed in the raw source code. GPT4 can make sense of code without documentation.
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The power of LLMs atm is that they allow a person to be "median" in a very wide range of topics. This is extremely powerful, even to folks that can attain an above average mastery. It also does this quickly. There was a recent article on Slashdot titled something how metaverse may increase the gdp by like 2 or 3 percent. It was obviously laughed at. It's actually LLMs that will do this, and easily.
It's also a solid rubber duck, it'll test you by giving you misinfo and you have to tease it back from the brink.
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> I think it's a bit sad that the only benefit someone can see in their workplace is their salary. It's not the only benefit, but it's the only one that you can't get in some other way. I suspect that very few people -- even people who love their jobs -- would continue working in them if they weren't getting paid.
Well yeah, but we're unlikely to ever live in a world where there aren't paid jobs. Personally, I enjoy working with people. I may not make as much money as going solo but holistically my work life is improved by having colleagues. I think the same is true for most people. No person is an island.
"No person is an island". I hate quotes like this, things that have the veneer of truth without any actual corroborating data. I am a textbook introvert, I get no greater joy and contentment when spending a Saturday morning pursuing a personal project solo style.
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I'm leveraging this to build https://codeamigo.dev . Basically it's learn to code, but with an AI assistant. The main reason people drop off of coding tutorials or stop learning is when they see their first error message. I'm already seeing people get un-stuck by using the AI as an assistant, this tech (GPT) is going to completely revolutionize learning.
Your website looks nice, but I don't like this statement: "Today's developers didn't learn C before learning Python [...]" Makes me feel like I am a "yesterday's developer" and that it is bad thing.