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by vga1 16 days ago
I think the mistake people are making currently is that they publicize stuff way too early. I.e. they make a prototype and then put that out there. Possibly with a full product page and all.

People did this also before LLM, but the difference is that now the prototype is a fully functional product in the technical sense whereas before it was little more than a glorified Hello World. The human effort and calendar time used remains roughly the same.

There's gonna be amazing products made with LLM, but it'll take some time. Not as long as it did before, but still significant time.

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> There's gonna be amazing products made with LLM

You think more amazing than what was made without LLM?

There is going to be something that would not have existed without LLM because there wouldn't have been enough resources to create it before. Probably already is. Some of it will be amazing, although most of it probably not.

Example: Qobuz has no official Linux client, but there's https://qbz.lol/ which it seems to me is mostly vibecoded. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well and can do some fancy stuff like bit perfect DAC passthrough up to 192kHz/24bit.

I hear you, and those are good applications of LLMs: create something that didn't make economic sense before.

But I'm asking something slightly different. I'm asking about something that's amazing, not due to a different economic calculus, but something that's AMAZING that would not be possible to create by humans.

I think it's possible, but probably beyond my capability of imagination, so I cannot give a satisfying answer beyond this.