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Comment by vuserfcase

6 months ago

>Oh but it is, used wisely.

Sufficiently advanced orange juice extractor is the solution to any problem. Doesen't necessarily mean you should build the sufficient part.

>One: it's a replacement for googling a problem and much faster

This is more to do with the problem that google results have gone downhill very rapidly. It used to be you could find what you were looking for very fast and solve a problem.

>I could ask an LLM to do it and then tweak the results. Five minutes for "good enough" and it really is.

When the cost of failures is low, a hackjob can be economical, like a generated picture for entertainment or a static error page. Miscreating a support for a bridge it is not very economical