alt Hacker NewsConversely, I was party to every part of crypto hype and there are some amazing parallels, like right now when people start pretending to be philosophical greeting cards instead of making concrete statements.
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I never had a use for crypto.
I'm making movies with VFX now. (I've been a photons on glass filmmaker for over a decade. This tech rocks.)
I'm basically automating my work and acting as a senior manager. Claude can write my code in my style 100x faster than me. I'm reviewing the code, making adjustments - that means I have to pay back the efficiency gain, but overall this is easily a doubling of my productivity.
I'm making music and images and I've never been able to do those things. I suck at graphics design - now I can actually do it.
Google search sucks. Complicated searches had become impossible. Now I can ask very obscure and hard questions and easily verify the LLM results.
We've effectively jumped 50 years in tech capability, it feels like. I feel like I'm living in the future. This is only the beginning, too.
I don't care if you use AI. In fact, I'm better off if you don't. That gives me even more of an edge.
Please stay away from AI. I'll keep using it.
Even as a tech person I never had any use for crypto. Never heard mention of crypto outside or the tech bubble.
AI? Everyone and their dog have at least tried it, from kids in middle school to housekeepers. It’s even more common than the internet was pre 2000.