alt Hacker NewsTrying to keep up is like jumping on a 90mph treadmill. I have decided to opt out. I think AI (and currently LLMs) is more than a fad and not going away but it's in a huge state of churn right now. I'm not investing a ton of time into anything until I have to. In another few years the landscape will hopefully be more clear. Or not, but at least I won't have spent a lot of time on stuff that has quickly become irrelevant.
I'm currently not using AI or LLMs in any of my day-to-day work.
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i'm in the same boat, i did the zero-to-hero series karpathy put out to get a basic understanding of what we're dealing with. At work, I helped put together a basic rag setup last year that's in production so feel ok with implementation. Finally, i have a little personal pet project that i'm going to feel out with claude code over Christmas to get more hands on. That's about it all i'm going to do to "keep up". I'll let the fighters fight it out and then just use whatever wins.
btw here's a link to the karpathy videos https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
edit: i use claude and chatgpt day to day to help with simple things like regex, a replacement for google search in same cases, and self contained classes, functions, and other small discreet blocks of code.
This. When has early adoptation paid off lately? Remember prompt engineering?
give me whisper real-time transcriber and I'll be happy!!
I agree pretty strongly
Yeah it's not a fad, but I think it's really not as useful to me right now as the hype seems to suggest
I'm going to keep an eye on developments, but I'm not using it for my day to day either. I'm just not seeing the same value other people seem to be seeing right now and I'm not going to exhaust myself trying to keep up
One day Claude is the best. Next is Cursor. People are switching tools every two weeks trying to keep up
Not for me thanks. Especially not with how inconsistent the quality and output still are