[JohnMakin]

People are overselling and hyping it in similar ways, and entire companies springing up that are essentially just thin wrappers around chatGPT doesn’t help, especially when a lot of the same people pimping that stuff were on the crypto/web3 train barely over a year ago.

However, while definitely overhyped and its capabilities far exaggerated, its applications already in several fields have been significant. I think the “gen AI” thing is pointless, but I got an eerie feeling watching 4 fairly senior engineers the other day huddled around a chatGPT terminal they were asking questions.

To me it felt like some profound moment, like maybe how the guys that went around manually lighting street lamps felt when they first saw electric lights.

Anyway, the answer usually falls in the middle somewhere between hype and doomsaying. It’s improved my workflow a bit. Not too worried that it’ll replace me, but I do believe there will be less work because of it, and to management that usually means someone’s getting fired.

[mistrial9]

> and entire companies springing up that are essentially just thin wrappers around chatGPT doesn’t help

instant frat-guy funding.. they have networks of insta-money. There is a cult in SF connected to Seattle..

meanwhile, thousands upon thousands of competent coders are looking for a work gig.. the price for skilled coders is dropping in almost all categories..