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The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by lucubratory »

11101010001100 wrote: post #284
Ethan_Mick wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is a good question. Screenshots are hard on HN, but I could write up a blog post about it all once I have a demo of the game. I've been using ChatGPT and GPT-4 since they came out, so I'm pretty aware of their limitations. You can't build an entire project in a single project. GPT loses the context at one point. With that in mind, break down the project into chunks and make each one a conversation. For m…

What happens when you ask chatgpt to create a game similar to one that does not exist?

If you can induce it to hallucinate, it should just do whatever it associates that the words in that title with.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by lucubratory »

zackmorris wrote: post #234

Semi-serious question: how do we help those too old to begin the training? When I went through profound burnout in 2019, the part of my brain that handles planning and execution shut down for about 6 months. I could barely get out of bed, brush my teeth, etc. The grieving process was rough, as well as the struggle to relearn how to function in a culture that doesn't allow breaks. And it was physical, perhaps brought…

Just wanted you to know that I read this comment and I get those feelings too. We as a society need to take better care of each other, using whatever technology and infrastructure we have access to. That should definitely include AI.

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Post by KingMob »

a_brawling_boo wrote: post #259
Ethan_Mick wrote: post #67

> More importantly, it gives me the courage to dream and attempt things beyond my current abilities. This is one of the small things that GPT has pushed me to do. I'm an experienced programmer and grew up playing video games, but I am not a game developer. I've dabbled over the years but can't build anything outside of a tutorial. The other day, using GPT I went through and made a Pixel Dungeon clone using Phaser (Ja…

I am software engineer and I have certainly attempted use GPT for coding with mixed results. But what I am really impressed using it for writing. I am writing the story of my abusive upbringing with a mental ill mother. I am not a writer, but this thing is awesome because I can ask it to give me prompts and it is jogging my memory more and more then I can give it rough outlines and thoughts and it will organize it in…

Very sorry to hear about your upbringing, btw. I hope writing your story helps.

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Post by popcorncowboy »

ska wrote: post #286
jvanderbot wrote: post #238

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Well you need both, a great idea and great execution. I agree with your sentiment though that execution (and timing) are the differentiation.

A decent idea and great execution is often enough.

And a deep or wide, or preferably both, market. Without this last ingredient, all you have is a hobby project.

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Post by mdekkers »

renjimen wrote: post #122

> Staying in any company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage. I think it's a bit sad that the only benefit someone can see in their workplace is their salary. Also, I get the feeling this person has never done anything outside of consumer app development with minimal stakeholder interaction. Overall I think it's great we can supercharge our learning and coding capabilities, but it would…

> I think it's a bit sad that the only benefit someone can see in their workplace is their salary.

I enjoy clean water, food, shelter, and providing for my loved ones. I was not born rich, and I am not rich now. I am 53 and have worked for others as well as myself since I was 15. When I provide my expertise, experience, time, and skills to a 3rd party, I want to get fairly financially compensated for that. If I want camaraderie of some sort, I’ll join a relevant club or activities group, and will pay my dues. If I want to learn new skills, I will join some training course. I work for others for financial compensation, and financial compensation right now. I don’t want some vague promises down the road. You tell me what you need to get done, and I will tell you what it is going to cost you.

We live in a society where the performance of work for others is compensated financially. Money makes the world go round, and allows us all to live. If you have any examples of additional benefits besides getting paid, please let me know.

We work for money, which allows us to purchase the things we need and want on our own terms. If anybody convinced you that it is _not_ about money, you’ve been tricked.

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Post by poppypetalmask »

ska wrote: post #208
rounakdatta wrote: post #188

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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.

Not really. Ideas have always been cheap. They occur to everyone. Most of them aren't great, let alone good. But good ideas, even great ones, rarely mean much on their own. It's always been execution.

With AI making execution bit easier, the idea will become relatively less cheap.

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Post by captainmuon »

That's really exciting, LLMs make a lot of exploratory work trivial.

Unfortunately I feel like I'm hitting a wall here. I've gotten pretty good at learning new things and stamping out prototypes - I still appreciate the help from LLMs a lot. But a big part of my work is people stuff: Follow up with X, make sure Y does Z, find a consensus, and so on. GPT does nothing there, maybe except for helping me formulate a mail.

And I'm also not sure it helps with architectural questions. GPT will build you a game, but there are 100s of ways to do it, and it will pick one at random that might be not optimal down the line.

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Post by DonsDiscountGas »

iamjackg wrote: post #162
DonsDiscountGas wrote: post #104

ChatGPT has been useful to me for learning/looking-up a lot of things, although it sometimes drives me crazy. Often I'll want to use libraries which are rapidly developing, and the training data ending at 2021 kills the accuracy. A webcrawler + chatGPT would be incredibly useful. So far I've only found tools designed for the web admin (finetune on your support docs + make a chatbot for users) rather than something de…

Take a look at https://phind.com Being able to search the web allows it to deal with recent information: you can ask it to limit its search to the API documentation for the library you're working with.

Oh this is pretty good, thanks! I do have some non-developer use-cases which this may not work for, but definitely helpful.

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

geek_at wrote: post #7

Learning something with GTP-4 is so much more fun than using google/Stack Overflow. It's like having a tutor that knows your code and gives you hints and solutions based on your actual project. It's a real game changer for learning

I actually often add GPT4 responses into a markdown page and build a whole library of “how to do x”

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by ska »

popcorncowboy wrote: post #294
ska wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A decent idea and great execution is often enough.

And a deep or wide, or preferably both, market. Without this last ingredient, all you have is a hobby project.

fair, but I was considering that part of "decent" in "decent idea".
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