> the upside is that AI is the real deal, this stuff really works

Now imagine how depressing the industry is when you don't actually agree that this stuff really works. People are tripping over themselves to replace human craft with a tool that can't even do the job properly. It's so awful to watch.

It can't do the job properly by ANY imagination, but it can pretend to well enough in a lot of cases :(

I'm not surprised some folks are getting bad results. I was just in /r/openrouter on reddit and even the pro AI folks don't know anything. I also won't deny how messed up some of the external costs are, and the carelessness, nay, complete recklessness of the OpenAI folks and others. Hell there are still folks saying we aren't even paying the actual costs of these things, and certainly we're not adjusting our economic systems in any meaningful way to account for the massive shift in the skills marketplace. And whether it works or not, well it'd be a hell of a hoax if I've spent a dollar and a half and there's some poor thirdworlder somewhere who actually typed code for maybe a quarter hahaha