alt Hacker NewsWe should be so far past the "grand debate about its usefulness" at this point.
If you think that's still a debate, you might be listening to the small pool of very loud people who insist nothing has improved since the release of GPT-4.
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nandhinianand • yesterday at 11:39 PM
I think this is definitely true for novel writing and stuff like that based on my experiments with AI so far.. I'm still on the fence about coding/building s/w based on it, but that may just be about the unlearning and re-learning i'm yet to do/try out.
fragmede • yesterday at 11:07 PM
Should be, but the bar for scientifically proven is high. Absent actual studies showing this, (and with a large N), people will refuse to believe things they don't want to be true.
Have you considered the opposite? Reflected on your own biases?
I’m listening to my own experience. Just today I gave it another fair shot. GitHub Copilot agent mode with GPT-4.1. Still unimpressed.
This is a really insightful look at why people perceive the usefulness of these models differently. It is fair to both sides without being dismissive as one side just not “getting it” or how we should be “so far” past debate:
https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine....