> You can now do literally anything. Literally.

In practice, not so much. Not in my experience. I have a drive littered with failed AI projects.

And by that I mean projects I have diligently tried to work with the AI (ChatGP, mostly in my case) to get something accomplished, and after hours over days of work, the projects don’t work. I shelve them and treat them like cryogenic heads. “Sometime in the future I’ll try again.”

It’s most successful with “stuff I don’t want to RTFM over”. How to git. How to curl. A working example for a library more specific to my needs.

But higher than that, no, I’ve not had success with it.

It’s also nice as a general purpose wizard code generator. But that’s just rote work.

YMMV

Maybe you are running into the problem I did early. I told it what I wanted. Now I tell it what I want done. I use Claude Code and have it do its things one at a time and for each, I tell it the goal and then the steps I want it to take. I treat it as if it was a high-level programming language. Since I was more procedural with it, I get pretty good results.

I hope that helps.

For every problem that stops you, ask the LLM. With enough context it’ll give you at least a mediocre way to get around your problem.

It’s still a lot of hard work. But the only person that can stop yourself is you. (Which it looks like you’ve done.)

List the reasons you’ve stopped below and I’ll give you prompts to get around them.

Theres no way it will "fall short".

You just have to improve your prompt. In the worst case scenario you can say "please list out all the different research angles I should proceed from here and which of these might most likely yield a useful result for me"

I spent a lot of time fixing Claude's misunderstanding of the `ort` library, mainly because of Claude's knowledge cutoff. In the end, the draft just wasn't complete enough to get working without diving in really deep. I also kind of learned that ONNX probably isn't the best way to approach these things anymore. Most of the mindshare is around the python code and torch apis.

AI leads to more useless dives down into the internets.

As a teenager, I remember being annoyed that the newspapers had positive articles on the rejuvenating properties of nonsense like cupping and reiki. At least a few of my friends' parents had healing crystals.

People have always believed in whatever nonsense they want to believe.

(Shrug) It was pretty much true. But it's like what Linus says in an old Peanuts cartoon: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1969/07/20

Edit: and for that matter I also would not trust a brain surgeon who had only read about brain surgery in medical texts.

Weirdly you’ll get a lot of useful experience as you analyze yourself through 80 years.