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1. vdombr · 1790714818 · focus · HN ↗

   It's been almost half a year since we got powerful enough models, and I'm wondering, where are all those great things that were created with them? Maybe it's just me, but nothing has changed in my life so far. No improvements, but definitely, I need to be more careful when reading, listening, watching, and using things, as bad quality slowly creeps everywhere.

   1. drivebyhooting · 1790715133 · focus · HN ↗

      Do you build things for yourself? I’ve unlocked tremendous value just by scratching my own itches so to speak.

      But taking those bespoke contraptions to market is not something I want to out effort into. Especially when anyone can just clone it with AI.

      The AI revolution might not show up so easily in GDP.

      1. camillomiller · 1790715894 · focus · HN ↗

         You explained the problem brilliantly. Frontier models are great at making you tinker and come up with shit you wouldn’t have done because there is zero value in it and you would have had to bet a value N (time, money) to obtain before this investors-subsidized almost-free software existed. This is deluding individuals and CEOs and everyone who seems incapable to abstract from the sycophantic personal experience into systemic thinking. To be fair, LLMs have been engineered to give this illusion, so the fault lies with the grifters controlling them.

         Now are there useful applications of these tools (not gods) that might justify a sizeable new tech market? Absolutely yes! Is that market ever be going to be worth trillions a year? LOL hell no.

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