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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by pmoriarty on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:11AM (#35301495)
Me neither, but I think before long people like us are going to be left behind. We're like people who insist on continuing to ride horses in the age of the automobile.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by imiric on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:20AM (#35301555)
I think that time will come, but we'll have self-hosted options before employers start discriminating based on performance with or without AI tools. So I'm not too worried about it.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by re-thc on Saturday March 25, 2023 @08:25AM (#35301975)
Automobile were faster or equivalent to horses (even early 1s). At the moment GPT isn't.

Well I hope... I've definitely seen teams and codebases with worse output than GPT so...

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by dharmab on Saturday March 25, 2023 @02:06PM (#35305296)
> Automobile were faster or equivalent to horses (even early 1s).

The automobile was invented in 1885, but didn't replace the horse until the 1910s.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by re-thc on Sunday March 26, 2023 @01:11AM (#35311210)
For the same reasons or different 1s? Could be cost, accessibility and others.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by dharmab on Sunday March 26, 2023 @03:31AM (#35312001)
Largely because of infrastructure. You could get animal feed in places you couldn't get gasoline and oil. And horses don't need smooth roads.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by precompute on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:43PM (#35304385)
That won't happen, you can't expect to be "left behind" by a tool that's this easy to use. The big downsides of using a LLM will show up long-term, people will be chained to them and won't be able to do simple, trivial things on their own.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by throwaway675309 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @03:36PM (#35306309)
Most people can't change their own oil, replace radiator fluid, or know the difference between a hubcap and a distributor cap. And yet life seemingly goes on...
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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by precompute on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:41PM (#35307730)
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