Comment by robocat
9 hours ago
Was the custom tool developed by copying how the existing software worked? Copying existing functionality is not always possible, and doesn't capture the real costs.
9 hours ago
Was the custom tool developed by copying how the existing software worked? Copying existing functionality is not always possible, and doesn't capture the real costs.
No, it is incredibly streamlined because it tailored specifically to achieve this modernization.
The paid program can do it because it can accept these files as an input, and then you can use the general toolset to work towards the same goal. But the program is clunky an convoluted as hell.
To give an example, imagine you had tens of thousands of pictures of people posing, and you needed to change everyone's eye color based on the shirt color they were wearing.
You can do this in Photoshop, but it's a tedious process and you don't need all $250/mo of Photoshop to do it.
Instead make a program that auto grabs the shirt color, auto zooms in on the pupils, shows a side window of where the object detection is registering, and tees up the human worker to quickly shade in the pupils.
Dramatically faster, dramatically cheaper, tuned exactly for the specific task you need to do.
I think use cases like that will be where "AI" has the biggest wins.
That's a task that I could automate as a developer, but other than LLM "vibe coding", I don't know that there's a good way for a lay person to automate it.