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by talldayo
748 days ago
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Yeah, pretty much the same experience here. Prose or poetry, AI-generated text is awful. AI-generated images also tend to look awful unless they're obsessively-directed and processed. AI-generated music is still so bad it's hilarious. Some AI can kinda code, but only if you limit it to the purview of boilerplate generation. A lot of common APIs and libraries simply don't exist, in ChatGPT's head. I feel like as a programmer this just reaffirms to me why humans are still a valuable resource for problem-solving; text-generation doesn't put food on the table. Thinking is valuable, and while some people might not realize or care, trying to let ChatGPT manage a serious project is like delegating a task to an auditorium of monkeys on typewriters. |
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And, conversely, it assumes the existence of a lot of APIs or libraries that it would be nice if they _did_ exist, but they don't (though, as I've seen someone else comment elsewhere - that's no bad thing if you view it as inspiration rather than gospel. You can ask the LLM "what function would make this task easier if it existed?", and then divert your attention to creating _that_ function instead).
In fairness - it's still a helpful tool which can provide leverage/acceleration for human-directed creation, and I do believe that the quality will improve drastically over the coming years. But we're still a long way off from the time when they can take the lead rather than be a tool.