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Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by giraffe_lady on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:31AM (#42522300)
These are different social contingents I think. At least for me I was super on board with wikipedia because as you say the use to me was immediate and certain. AI I have tried every few months for the last two years but I still haven't found a strong use for it. It has changed nothing for me personally except making some products I use worse.
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Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by Loughla on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:36AM (#42522346)
AI is only useful for me if I have a good idea of what the answer might already be, or at least what it absolutely can't be.

It helps me get to an answer a little bit quicker, but it doesn't perform any absolutely groundbreaking work for me.

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Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by llm_trw on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:35AM (#42522340)
Have you paid for it?
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Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by giraffe_lady on Friday December 27, 2024 @09:40AM (#42522401)
Yes my work pays for several of them. I don't particularly enjoy coding so believe me I have sincerely tried to get this to work.
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Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by timcobb on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:00AM (#42522565)
Cursor has been quite the jaw-dropping game changer for me for greenfield hobby dev.

I don't know how useful it would be for my job, where I do maintenance on a pretty big app, and develop features on this pretty big app. But it could be great, I just don't know because work only allows Copilot. And Copilot is somewhere between annoying and novelty in my opinion.

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