[ThrowawayR2]

It'll probably look like the code version of this, an image run through a LLM 101 times with the directive to create a replica of the input image: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1kbj71z/i_tried_th... Despite being provided with explicit instructions, well...

People are still wrongly attributing a mind to something that is essentially mindless.

[therealdrag0]

Mind is irrelevant. We see the features performing before our eyes, it’s wild people deny code gens abilities still.

[habinero]

They do okay-ish for things that don't matter and if you don't look that hard. If you do look, the "features" turn out to be very limited, or not do what they claim or not work at all.

[therealdrag0]

It’s still a collaborative and iterative process. That doesn’t mean they don’t work. I don’t need ai to one shot my entire job for it to be crazy useful.

[habinero]

If you find it helpful, that's fine. I like it as spicy autocorrect, and turn it off when I find it annoying.

I actually do look into what people do because as much fun as being a hater is, it's important not to get lost in the sauce.

From what I've seen, it's basically all:

1. People tricking themselves into feeling productive but they're not, actually

2. People tricking themselves into feeling productive but they're actually doing sloppy work

3. Hobby or toy stuff

4. Stuff that isn't critical to get right

5. Stuff they don't know how to judge the quality of

6. ofc the grifters chasing X payouts and driving FOMO

7. People who find it kinda useful in some limited situations (me)

It has its uses for sure, but I don't find it transformative. It can't do the hard parts and for anything useful, I need to check exactly what it did, and if I do that, it's much faster to do myself. Or make a script to do it.

[pinkgolem]

I mean, if you tell a chain of 100 humans to redraw a a picture i would expect it to go similar, just much faster

[camdenreslink]

If you handed a human an image and said please give me back this image totally unmodified, I bet the human could do it.

[cryptonector]

Not if you were asking them to redraw the image as they saw it. That's what's happening in this particular case, only with an LLM.