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AI (in its current state) is phenomenal for research on just about any topic; you can dive deep and cross-reference the material more easily than ever.
AI (in its current state) is not so good at actually doing things; we're a long ways off from simply speaking software into existence.
we're a long ways off from simply speaking software into existence
I wanted a Chinese language tutor that uses a local LLM to generate sentences and evaluate my translations. I asked Claude to build that, and an hour later it was working pretty much exactly how I imagined it.
It's true that there's a lot more to shipping serious projects than getting the code to work, but you can absolutely speak software into existence today.