[ActionHank]

It's genuinely strange to me that people are acting like anything is possible now, because AI.

We had the internet for decades, with the sum of human knowledge largely available, no one used it.

Now those same uninspired masses are going to use to use the magic knowledge box to produce what they could never bring themselves to learn or research? No.

Just because the LLM can spit out code that looks good to you when you know what to ask for, does not mean that it is doing the same for everyone else.

[findjashua]

It's not even a fair comparison - the effort involved in learning and building stuff from the internet (in the pre-LLM era) is an order of magnitude higher than turning your OAI/Anthropic account into an absolute slop cannon.

I'm primarily backend dev, but want able to prompt my way into building tiny JS web apps for personal use.

Wife always wanted to write animated story books for kids, and was actually able to create a bunch with Gemini (our daughter enjoys these more than the store-bought ones, since they're tailord/personalized for her).

[ActionHank]

Believe me when I say that I am totally aware of this degree of functionality, but the reality is that the world is not burning trillions of dollars so you can generate side projects that never quite get good enough to go to market.

The sales pitch is as good or better than if someone with full understanding did it themselves. Maybe that's true for the first one or two rounds, assuming it's something that isn't novel. Beyond that it's just not true.

[block_dagger]

> no one used it.

Can you explain what you mean?

[ActionHank]

The premise of why AI will change the world is because Jill from accounting is going to make a custom reporting app.

Thing is Jill always could do that, she just didn’t leverage the information available.

Now Jill can make the reporting app, until it is sufficiently complex that the code collapses under its own weight or she finds that the numbers don’t actually mean what she thinks.

[ryoshoe]

The thing that's changed is how time is no longer major limiting factor. Previously Jill would have had to learn enough about programming to make an app, whereas now she can write a few prompts and receive something good enough even if her lack of programming knowledge means the code is house-of-cards waiting to fall

[moi2388]

No, she will receive something she thinks is good enough, but will have subtle bugs leading to wrong accounting without her realising, and potentially leaking all customer information all over the internet, and the entire business process grinding to a halt when she leaves