How Artificial Intelligence Can Boost Your Productivity at Work

TBH I think it writes better than a substantial percentage of the general population.

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Yeah the text he generates are outstanding.

I also use Bing AI chat to search for stuff and it works okish. Not perfect but its really nice from time to time.

@Dr.PI could we have a dedicated scam check thread? Product promoters would not post in there (to avoid having their product associated with scams). On the other hand new users could still have their information checked.

Ehm. I did, but the post you have reffed to has disappeared :person_shrugging:.

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Just made a bitcoin portfolio tracker in 20 minutes with cursor.sh.
I heard about it and wanted just to play around with the 14days trial
 this is crazy. I used to do such stuff for money and it took me weeks to do so.
Now, I have not changed one line of code. Just added stuff, fixed smaller bugs, dockerized
 all by chat. And it works perfectly. Is this vibe coding? Insane!
devs will get rect.

(I work with githubs copilot’s agent everyday on a large code base, but this one surprised me)

Productivity goes up - true.
But

False (for the good ones at least) - you still need to know what you’re doing, to evaluate if what it produces is legit quality or shit.
The value of strong expertise (as judges) actually goes up.

Poor ones - probably.

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What I wonder is how AI impacts training of experts in the future. If entry level positions are replaced by AI, then how will experts even be trained and get experience.

Maybe
 but maybe 1 needed out of 10
 and it’s the guy you go to if you need a quick fix or answer. (everybody has such a guy in any company)

It does the job for things that have been done in a similar way on the internet.
And if accuracy is not absolutely needed (or you can easily check whether it works, like whether a plot color changed the way you want).
If accuracy is needed or you can not verify whether it makes sense immediately, you’ll have to check what each line does.

Will this still be the case in 10-20 years? Maybe not. But I don’t buy the notion that 9/10 devs will not be needed anymore.

Who knows, one day we might have “handcrafted software” with higher value, similar like we have “handcrafted kitchentables”. :laughing:

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I disagree about 10-20 year. I see it in 5. Today’s dev job is to solve a problem by assemble lego bricks (libraries, company, programming language and security guide lines). The value added by dev is some special knowledge in the field or experience with the history of the code. This can be done by AI
 and better.

But yeah, when we live on a basic income paid by AI agent’s taxes, we can book a course in handcrafted software :laughing:

If we get AGI, yes. At some point there should be no reason why humans should be better at all.
I added a bookmark reminder; if I still am on this forum in 5 years (because I have nothing to do in the real world that was taken over by AI) we can revisit our predictions. :smiley:

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What I have come to believe is that AI will really force people to be experts in their fields

Good enough would not be good enough.

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