Can't wait for most of these companies to disappear once the hype dies down and the money dries up. Generative AI in its current form is a huge letdown.
Typical HN pessimism, but I strongly disagree with anyone characterizing it as a huge letdown.
Even if you personally don't get much use out of it (honestly hard for me to believe if you give it a fair try), there are tons of uses that will be impacting you significantly within the next year. Contrast that with crypto.
It's going to be one of those things like the internet where over the next decade it will have massively impacted every aspect of life but no one will fully appreciate how much everything has changed.
It's already replaced a bunch of search for me. I don't use it to make my own work, but I use it as a really fast q/a tool for straightforward answers absent of ads and clickbait
I paid for ChatGPT for a few months and finally cancelled yesterday. As a code generator it’s a frustrating assistant that gets it wrong most of the time. I guess that’s good from a selfish developer point of view.
It works quite well for my usecase as a coder - generating boilerplate UDFs for spark, etc., generating boilerplate python functions from a description of what it does, rewriting code to handle errors, asking it to review simple code.
Have you tried coding with it yet? Easy to see how you could get that impression from just playing with ChatGPT, but copilot/cursor/dropping stack traces into gpt4 is transformational.
In my experience talking architecture through with GPT4 has increased my productivity and enjoyment of development, and certain things like explain this typescript error to me or generate an elaborate mermaidjs chart for me that shows x,y,z have all been delightful.
That said, I've spent hours this week trying many different AI enhanced IDEs including cursor and I cannot for the life of me get anything to correctly set up jest in a TypeScript project - next.js or just vanilla TS... every single one does not correctly handle the Babel / tsconfig issues.
What I'm saying is I still think we'll see improvements over time but it's not quite there yet. I still prefer Codeium for completion and to take some boilerplate from gpt4 and modify it to my purposes.
