[lm28469]

See my problem with virtually every single example is that we talk about "I can't describe in any other way than it is thinking", "such complex solutions" but in the end we get a 50 lines "app" that you'd see in a computer science 101 class

It's very nice, it's very impressive, it will help people, but it doesn't align with the "you're just about to lose your job" "Skynet comes in the next 6 months" &c.

If these basic samples are a bottleneck in your day to day life as a developer I'm worried about the state of the industry

[int_19h]

The concern is the velocity. GPT-4 can solve tasks today that it couldn't solve one months ago. And even one month ago, the things it could do made GPT-3.5 look like a silly toy.

Then there's the question of how much this can be scaled further simply by throwing more hardware at it to run larger models. We're not anywhere near the limit of that yet.

[simonw]

This took me 3 minutes to build. Without ChatGPT it would have taken me 30-60 minutes, if not longer thanks to the research I would have needed to do into the various browser APIs.

If it had taken me longer than 3 minutes I wouldn't have bothered - it's not a tool I needed enough to put the work in.

That's the thing I find so interesting about this stuff: it's causing me to be much more ambitious in what I chose to build: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/27/ai-enhanced-developmen...