[stretchwithme]

AI is useful to people who read and understand the answers and who would have eventually come up with a similar result on their own.

They have judgement. They can improve what was generated. They can fix a result when it falls short of the objective.

And they know when to give up on trying to get AI to understand. When rephrasing won't improve next word prediction. Which happens when the situation is complex.

[bigstrat2003]

> AI is useful to people who read and understand the answers and who would have eventually come up with a similar result on their own.

I am such a one, and AI isn't useful to me. The answers it gives me are routinely so bad, I can just answer my own questions with a search engine or product documentation faster than I can get the AI to give me something. Often enough I can never get the AI to give me something useful. The current products are shockingly bad relative to the level of hype being thrown about.

[bluefirebrand]

> Often enough I can never get the AI to give me something useful. The current products are shockingly bad relative to the level of hype being thrown about.

Yeah, I agree. This has been a big source of imposter syndrome for me lately, since all of this AI coding stuff has skyrocketed

People making wild claims about building these incredible things overnight, but meanwhile I can't get anything useful out of them at all

Something isn't adding up. Either I'm not a very good programmer, or others are lying about how much the AI is doing for them

And I'm pretty sure I'm a pretty good programmer

[pempem]

It also happens when you ask it to do simple things like create comments. At least 400 words and still it will regurgitate/synthesize, often with a "!", the content you're asking it to comment on.

[insane_dreamer]

2 years ago: https://marketoonist.com/2023/02/ai-generated-sameness.html