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YesGPT · 5 Jul 2025

Either way, it would have taken us many months to do what it did take us a few weeks to with AI

serbuvlad on Hacker News

90%+ of cases

In the thread “'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using AI for tasks where the end goal is known but the path is not.

Got in the way: Models occasionally argue nonsensically or output garbage when context is poor.

… So I guess you could say I understand the problem space not the solution space?? Either way, it would have taken us many months to do what it did take us a few weeks to with AI. > So the whole appeal of AI seems to be to let it do things without much oversight. …