Comment by joshstrange
12 hours ago
I said the other day that I feel like I’m the edge of a wave that will (probably) make its way to the “general public” in time and I don’t know what it will look like when it does. Will “normal” people be able to create what I’m creating today in XXXX time? Or will it be another case of “everyone can cook but people still go out to eat”?
The build vs buy decision has been turned on its head for me, but it’s unclear if the “normal” people will make that same decision or be capable of leveraging the tools the way I am.
My experience has been that most people don't even understand what computers were capable of before LLMs; I work in a chemical company, and I can count on one hand the number of people who knew SAP has GUI automation built in.
Don't even try to explain that "copy data from X program to Y program" is something computers should have been handling for the past 20 years. It's been someone's job the whole time.
We haven't cleared the hurdle of "Processes a 100 line python script could automate in 2010", I don't think most people will be leveraging LLMs to their potential by any stretch.
That's very true, and I think you are probably more right than I am (in thinking this ability will _not_ be evenly distributed).
I do wonder what happens when:
"Help me find a tool to do XZY" is responded to (by an LLM) with "Here are a couple of options but I could also build one for you...". But at the end of the day no everyone wants to be a "Builder" or manage it. They are happy to exchange some money for someone else to handle it for them similar to the "everyone can cook but people still go out to eat" concept.