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by teemur 1022 days ago
> and the massive productivity benefits you see (30x faster!) are for trivial tasks, not difficult tasks.

Okay, I'll bite. I think quite often solving difficult tasks contain lots of trivial tasks. And speeding the trivial tasks can speed the difficult task up considerably when you can outsource the trivial tasks to an LLM.

I do not know how to make a catchy short video on my last side project scratching my itch (VR environment/metaverse to build 4 dimensional objects and move around them in 4d, see https://www.brainpaingames.com if interested). It was multi-year thing to get it where it is now (not pretty yet, I admit...), and it may of course just me being dumb, but yes, I consider it was/is difficult. Especially given I have never done anything in either C# or Unity. The speed-up ChatGPT gave to this project during last half a year was absolutely not trivial. I guess I must have saved years of my limited side-project time to get this far.