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by mptest 1144 days ago
I think part of the anxiety, at least for me, is how fast progress is being made too. Can begin to feel like the "LET ME IN" meme, when you're watching all day the cool things those inside the magic shop can do lol. Layman btw just looking to use it to automate some volunteer work I do. Thanks for this perspective on how new this stuff is.
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ZephyrBlu 1144 days ago
I completely agree, I feel the same way as a dev. GPT-4 is not even 2 months old.

The developer livestream was on March 14th: https://www.youtube.com/live/outcGtbnMuQ?feature=share.

The time since GPT-4 already feels something like 6 months. So far I'm perpetually feeling behind.

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mptest 1144 days ago
Can't imagine trying to keep up as a dev. Any of these tools useful for you in practice yet?

I struggle to keep up and all I need to do is understand developments well enough to simplify them in to palatable morsels for my tech skeptic colleagues in politics and non profits.

Challenging because they have a form of technology PTSD. when they hear "new technology" nft's of monkeys with 6 digit prices and peter thiel's yacht flash before their eyes and they see red.

And I can't really blame them, the rhetoric around crypto was enough to sour most non techies (in my little corner of lefty politics anyway) against the idea that any tech advancement is noteworthy. One of the first more serious individuals in politics to hear me out did so because "i sounded like one of the early linux proselytizers" lol.

Completely agree how time has slowed. I rotate between absolute giddy anticipation at our future thanks to the tech and nihilistic doomerism. Even as a hobbyist though I knew to take this seriously since I saw robert miles talk about gpt 2 in 2017(?) and note there's zero sign of these things plateauing in ability simply by ramping up parameter count.

I've gone on long enough but that live stream felt like the intro to a sci fi movie at points. Can't wait to have multi modal and plugins rolled out.

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ZephyrBlu 1142 days ago
Yes! ChatGPT is very useful at answering a lot of syntax related programming questions and GPT-4 can do decent codegen for simple things.

I expect that in the next 5yrs developer workflows will completely change based on all the LLM stuff.

I think it's always difficult to tell if new tech is just hype or will have real impact, but it really feels to me like LLMs will have real impact. Maybe not as much as they are being hyped, but definitely legit impact. There's a possibility of even greater impact than the hype as well.

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