Comment by embedding-shape
2 days ago
The argument isn't what OpenAI/Anthropic are selling their users, what I said was:
> are definitively capable tools when used in certain ways
Which I received pushback on. My reply is to that pushback, defending what I said, not what others told you.
Edit: Besides the point, but Ableton (and others) constantly tell people how to learn how to use the tool, so they use it the right way. There is a whole industry of people (teachers) who specialize in specific software/hardware and teaching others "how to hold the tool correctly".
> Besides the point, but Ableton (and others) constantly tell people how to learn how to use the tool, so they use it the right way
It's just an odd comparison to begin with. You said
> You think you can just fire up Ableton, Cubase or whatever and make as great music as a artist who done that for a long time
I don't think you have to be good at Ableton at all to make good music. I don't think you can even argue it would benefit your music to learn Ableton. There's a crap ton of people who are wizards with their DAW making mediocre music. A DAW can be fun to learn, and that can help me keep my flow state. But it's not literally going to make better music, and the fundamentals of production don't change at all from DAW to DAW.
That's a totally separate thing from LLMs. We are constantly told that if we learn the magic way to use LLMs, we can spit out functioning code a lot faster. But in reality, people are just generating code faster than they can verify it.
> That's a totally separate thing from LLMs. We are constantly told that if we learn the magic way to use LLMs, we can spit out functioning code a lot faster. But in reality, people are just generating code faster than they can verify it.
I don't see it as it is. LLMs are not magically gonna make you be able to produce high-quality software, just like Ableton isn't gonna magically gonna make you be able to produce high-quality music. But if you learn the tool, it gets a lot easier to use effectively. And the better you are at "producing high quality music/code", probably the more use you can make of Ableton/LLMs, compared to someone who aren't good at those things already.
Again, what you're being told by other people, I don't know, and frankly don't really care. OpenAI sold Codex to me as a tool that can help me, a programmer, do programming, and that's exactly what that tool gives me.
Cursor in their article tried to sell their tool as something that can "Hundreds of agents can work together on a single codebase for weeks, making real progress on ambitious projects" which I claim in TFA, doesn't seem to be true.
or the iPhone...