Some results were cool and shaved off a fair amount of time for me ( for example, it cut down some time on proposed approach to problem, where there was a solution already )
A4ET8a8uTh0 on Hacker News
In the thread “When Will AI Take Your Job?”
Helped: Generating proposed approaches to problems where solutions already existed.
Got in the way: Python and SQL code quality relied too much on prompt specificity.
… There are parts of my job that could definitely be augmented by LLM ( I know, because I have been trying to use them as a way to test whether it could work in my domain ). Some results were cool and shaved off a fair amount of time for me ( for example, it cut down some time on proposed approach to problem, where there was a solution already ), but I can't say it would, in its current state, replace me ( Python and SQL code quality gpt generated seemed to rely too much on how specific the prompt was and I typically had to refine it as I went through it ). But we are merely starting out. …