Comment by crabbone

> look at say Claude sonnet 3.x. It’s an entire world away in like a year

In the area I work I find them to be of very little value both then and now... I see no real difference. They help in marginal tasks. Eg. they catch typos, or they help new programmers to faster explore the existing codebase.

So far, I haven't used a single line of code generated by AI, even though I've seen thousands. Some of them worked to draw attention to a problem, but none solved it successfully. It was all pretty lame.

I see no reason to believe it's going to get better. Waving hands more forcefully isn't helping, there's no argument behind the promise of "it will get better". No reason to believe it will...

But, more importantly, the AI is applied on a level where really important things don't happen. It's automating boilerplate work. It doesn't make decisions about the important parts. Like, in the example above, the AI is not capable of choosing a better strategy: use pyproject.toml or write code to build Python packages? It's not the kind of decision it's called to make and nobody sensible would trust it to make such a decision because there isn't a clear right or wrong answer, only the future will prove one or the other to be the right call.