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by robador
708 days ago
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Yes and no. Yes, I believe it is overhyped and in many cases it causes more problems than it solves. For instance, it's easier to create content now, but the quality is usually mediocre at best. I think that's because whatever it's used for still depends on humans for its quality. You get average Joe using ai to code or write, the output is still going to be mediocre. It's just gotten easier and faster to produce it. To me that's a net loss. Companies now sprinkling AI features on everything is more likely to make me roll my eyes, it's become a gimmick. At the same time I do think it's an incredible tool, and I personally do use it, as a sparring partner, to do quick experiments, to explore ideas or technology I don't have experience with. For example, in my current position I found myself constantly hitting limits with excel. AI enabled me to use Python, Pandas, Sklearn and other libraries to great effect. All stuff I didn't have prior experience with. So I understand the excitement. |
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The value proposition is that the vast majority of what people do is produce mediocre output work product.
99% of people don’t even write code, they do boring things like fill in spreadsheets or tick boxes on TPS reports. Even among “skilled” labor, fields like software engineers are probably copy/pasting code for CRUD apps. The current gen AI is going to be able to trivially replace all those things as it gets put into practice, even if the next gen never materializes.