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by pas 754 days ago
It is a very fancy autocomplete indeed, but it's not like you missed anything on day 1.

The engineering they put around GPT to make it work as a smart translator and eloquent "brainstormer" and whatnot is impressive, but so far there's no killer app in sight. (The biggest bang for the buck seems to be Copilot.)
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andybak 753 days ago
It is the killer app in itself. You might be underestimating it's impact and how much usage it's getting (not always for good things, not always for bad).

It's totally permeated many areas of life for people.

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tim333 753 days ago
Yeah

>100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history

I've used it for some non trivial stuff. Legal advice and advice on launching a crypto project.

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infecto 753 days ago
It definitely is a killer app and light years ahead any competing product. Github copilot is good but different use case to me. If you meant MSFT Copilot, well that I am not sure what benefit if any exists.
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pas 753 days ago
You mean ChatGPT? What's the use case that people pay for

I mean the thing you can use in IDEs, some people seem to love it. (And it's great for writing Terraform code for example.)

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