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Re:AI and the Automation of Work by steve_adams_86 on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:32AM (#36569264)
They might not need it, but it might reduce the friction dramatically.

I use GPT to learn things occasionally, but it’s almost always something where I don’t have the language on hand to navigate the problem space. GPT is great at opening windows and giving you the tools you need to figure something out.

In my case, I usually get to a point where I think I get the topic well enough to leave ChatGPT and go out on my own. Something interesting here is that you can ask GPT to tell you where good resources might be found on the internet. Sometimes it’ll actually come through, providing you some decent places to investigate the topic even further. Whether it’s blog posts, long form articles, or research papers.

It’s mostly a matter of eliminating friction and connecting dots faster. It’s definitely not making something possible that wasn’t possible before.

Re:AI and the Automation of Work by nucleative on Monday July 03, 2023 @05:37AM (#36570720)
This applies to me. GPT4 increases the speed of simple tasks significantly.

I needed a WordPress plugin but I'm not a WordPress developer and it's been a while since I spent much time in PHP. Ultimately I don't have time to come up to speed on this and I just want the plugin now.

I wrote a ChatGPT prompt explaining the plugin in great detail, and it responded with the entire plugin. I installed it and it worked on the first try. I went back and forth for a few iterations to adjust things like css and button titles and now it's running on a live site.

Had I assigned the project to someone else, I'd still have needed to write the "prompt" and I'm not sure it would have saved me any time.