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by steve_adams_86 1190 days ago
This has been my take as well. It's without a doubt at the point where it's useful and I'm very interested to experiment with it and see how much utility I can get out of it. At the same time, as much as I realize skill with prompting is essential, a lot of my time is spent programming automations around using those prompts. A lot of thought and care goes into it, and the failure rates of what I'm building are dramatically higher than anything I build without AI.

It's like I'm convincing AI to do a "smart" thing (which is really cool, don't get me wrong), but the AI truly has no idea what it's supposed to be doing. Sometimes even very direct, specific, concise prompting will yield totally abysmal responses.

I'm certainly not putting it down either though. It's unprecedented and it marks a genuinely important shift in the industry that this is possible at all. It just isn't all that smart when it comes to intents and actually knowing what's going on.