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Retricyesterday at 7:23 PM1 replyview on HN

AI needs a great deal of handholding which is different than just offloading tasks. You spend a lot of cognitive energy playing a slot machine hoping the RNG works out this time.

There’s definitely a skill to using AI but it just doesn’t generalize very well.


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sdesolyesterday at 7:32 PM

> playing a slot machine hoping

I still believe the slot machine analogy holds to some extent, but I can honestly say my winning percentage is at least 90% for one shot generated code now.

I think if you know it's limitations (inlcluding your own), I don't think about hoping anymore.

I should note that when I say AI, I mean the collective models from all the major providers. The most important lesson is, you need to ask around.

> There’s definitely a skill to using AI but it just doesn’t generalize very well.

This I agree with. The only way working with AI can really be benefical outside of dealing with AI is, we are visited by extremely intelligent beings that will fuck up in the weirdest ways.

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