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by jgalt212 769 days ago
> GPT-4 is already much more than enough for 90% of tasks while maintaining a sane dose of human double-checking.

There's the rub. Does the cost of double checking a 90% solution best the cost of current methods?

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Yes. Absolutely.

Who cares if I have to scan through it when it can write 100 lines of rote boring code in 10 seconds when it would take me 5 minutes.

I can type fast but GPT can type thousands of words per minute. I can't compete with that.

Debugging is way harder than getting it right first time though.

The fun thing with all this AI stuff is people are beginning to appreciate the nice thing about computers the whole time was their strict mechanical nature.