Jason GormanWe're 2.5 years into this gold rush, and I still haven't seen any gold. I've seen people selling picks & shovels. I've seen "gold experts" selling maps to the gold. I've seen CEOs announce they're going "gold-first". I've seen people selling land where they claim there's gold. But no actual gold.
Matteo Capucci@jasongorman uhm assuming this is about AI, what qualifies as gold for you? surely AI is hyped beyond disfigurement but my experience (esp outside academic circles) is that so many people use LLMs daily for their tasks... so there's gold everywhere by that standard.
@mc At massive losses and a huge environmental cost. Who is actually making money from them?
@mc Take Microsoft Copilot as an example. Almost everyone I know doesn't use it and doesn't want it.
Erwin Rossen 🔸@jasongorman @mc Then you know only a very selective group of people. Almost all programmers I know use it, or another AI tool, and they're all happy with it. That it doesn't work for you doesn't mean it doesn't work for everybody.
@erwinrossen @mc That's a very small % of the population. And I know a *lot* of developers who use it occasionally as a replacement for autocomplete and Stack Overflow, and that's about it. LLMs are too unreliable to let loose on actual production code.
@jasongorman @mc I agree that it's not perfect on big code bases (yet), but it certainly adds value with certain tasks, like writing documentation, test cases or refactoring.
I'm not a frontend developer. My hobby website wouldn't be live without AI.