Comment by benterix
3 months ago
First, it's not cynicism but a more realistic approach than just following SV marketing blindly, and second, it's not "everything else", just GenAI, NFTs/ICOs/Web3, "Metaverse" (or Zucks interpretation of it), delf-driving cars ready today, maybe a bit Theranos.
I’ve recently written a message queue <> database connector in Go using Claude Code, checkpointing, recovery, all that stuff built in.
I’d say it made me around 2x as productive.
I don’t think the cynicism of HN is justified, but I think what people forget is that it takes several months of really investing a lot of time into learning how to use AI well. If I see some of the prompts people give, and expect it to work, yeah no wonder that only works for React-like apps.
I asked AI to create a basic autoencoder based deep learning architecture for classifying time series data. This AI is a boon.
The thing is cryptocurrency and metaverse stuff was obvious bullshit from day one while even GPT-3 was clearly a marvel from day one. It's a false pattern match.