I'm using this specifically in the context of concepts/features that are hard to explain/sell without some working visual or prototype, but which aren't immediately evident needs or features requested by our users. Some of them go nowhere, but I think the net result is an increased ability for me to get my experiments from the "lab" to production.

In this new world, the ability to say "no" is more important than ever. It has never been so easy to burn time, money and energy. The fact that you can try anything now can be modeled as a disadvantage. The space of possible solutions got a lot bigger. Unless you have good taste you could wander and get lost very quickly in this vast new expanse. A true expert that has more paths to work with can arrive at higher quality solutions faster. A novice will get into trouble faster.

It often takes 10k hours suffering through an idea with a live customer before we deeply learn why something is a bad/good approach. None of this painful wisdom is available in the models. You can easily change the mind of ChatGPT with a single adjective. You cannot so easily persuade the person who has successfully cast the ring into the volcano already. They know what it actually feels like to get there.

In the browser javascript console I see "Uncaught TypeError: can't access property "ordinal", r is undefined"

In software it is now possible to test ideas instantly, this is great for people like me that have so many ideas.

I’ve felt that any non trivial amount of code not written myself tends to be hard to own. And like the author said, need to keep skills sharp also

High quality ensued. Usually ;)

The flip side is, nobody cares. I've put some of these things up on Github and ... nothing. It seems even my pre-AI projects have dropped sharply in eyeballs judging by issues, prs, stars, etc. People are too busy doing their own things to bother looking at other people's stuff. And rightfully so. There's nothing magical about my prompting to what people can prompt themselves. The value of these prototypes just dropped. Except op course for people still doing things the old fashioned way.

So, you can ship your prototype. But there's very little point to doing so. Even if it isn't slop, it's just very hard to stand out from the masses of other people's prototypes. The value of custom applications just dropped by an order of magnitude. Everybody is going to expect things to be tailored to them now.

These are the questions everyone seems to be ignoring and saying “only LLMs can make projects quickly” but ignoring everything those LLMs are built on (your llmis probably calling a code gen tool).

For the at work side, I personally haven’t experienced any disadvantages or missed any project deadlines because I didn’t use an LLM, so what does velocity get me? Thumb twiddling time?

I also use AI, not for muh agents but for asking questions. Even when I’m not forced to, unfortunately.

> I still don't think AI is magic, and I'm still cautious about the broader picture; the environmental, financial, and social questions haven't gone anywhere. But for me, right now, the day-to-day reality is that I can move faster, think bigger, and ship more than I could before. And that's been genuinely fun.

Three categories of concern, two of which are relevant for the well-being of commoners, and you still go ahead with it? Why? Because being productive and having fun is more important than the environment and driving people into social crises?