alt Hacker News> The pro argument is always quantity based, yet we never get to see the actual gain in quality. It's always "I'm doing SO MUCH more". Never "I'm doing better, with less effort."
For me, it's "I can do this now; yesterday I could not."
I am not a developer - I am a hack with some experience in a smattering of languages who hits very real obstacles very quickly. AI has allowed me to overcome those obstacles and build things that literally I could not do before.
Yesterday I could not differentiate quake 3 matches within a single demo file.
Today I can split them into separate files and have the server stream them to me so I can watch them on demand.
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It’s basically the same thing as AI generated art, whichever side of that you fall on.
I do IT, I can’t make any kind of art to save my own life. The art the AI generates is neat to me because I get to feel in control of making something beyond my own skills.
The flip side is equally true, though. The things I make are derivative, and not particularly neat to other people (and actively irritate actual artists).
AI software is a lot like that. I’m happy people who aren’t software engineers can make their own thing and be totally in control of that. I’ve also yet to see much AI software that blows existing stuff out of the water. Most of is derivative of something that already exists, if not an outright clone with a slightly different emphasis (think Jira but for a very specific workflow).
> For me, it's "I can do this now; yesterday I could not."
Yeah. More.
Better? How would you be able to tell? Can you show us better? Or only more?