I saw this. My take was that your response was seen as parroting a popular concept. "Everyone" is forming opinions on ChatGPT, but some are forming those opinions by talking to others and some by talking with ChatGPT.

I feel that by referencing a concrete example of a conversation I had with GPT that others elevated their perception of my response from mere gossip to ~fact.

The people who aren't amazed by it, are either afraid of it's misuse and I can see that, like the inability to ever know if written word is truly unique to the user. I do not envy teachers right now lol. The second group just haven't groked how it works or found good things to ask it, once you find something and it blows you away with like it helped me write flutter code and i've hardly touched flutter except for a small tutorial here/there.

I literally was able to build an android app that interfaces with chatGPT, I'm thinking it might be cool to also create some sort of web scraper that scrapes many pages, for instance all of the 'how much have you earned with sideprojects pages' on HN, then summarize data from 50+ webpages into bullet points. It doesn't have access to the internet but that doesn't mean you can't GIVE it access to the internet, through the prompt...

I'm finding that I have a much higher expectation of technology invalidating my knowledge than some of my friends. This makes sense because I'm in tech and tech moves quickly. Others are in fields which, typically, haven't moved as quickly and so different opinions have arisen around the expectation of the longevity of a career.

Some people are afraid of misuse, but others are just surprised that the advancement of tech is now applying to them. I empathize with the feeling, but I don't know how to be genuinely sympathetic as it seems to be the nature of the beast.

I don't think ChatGPT can hold 50 webpages in its short-term memory, but maybe. I have found it starts to lose shape of specific details we talked about after I drench it in information.