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The innovation can be the elimination of boilerplate, and sometimes that can only be found by writing it yourself.

Ask HN: Will reliance on GPT result in a local maximum of human innovation?

Given that GPT is trained on a snapshot of human knowledge, and that humans increasingly use it to replace knowledge work, does that mean the velocity of new knowledge added to GPT will approach zero? I always felt that GPT tends to err towards current best practices, and struggles when explictly asked to innovate. Imagine if it existed in the 90's and we all wrote elaborate OOP hierarchies and...

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