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> AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work.

HN crowd is generally anti-AI, so you're not going to get a lot of positive feedback here.

As a developer and someone who runs my own company, AI helps save me tons of hours - especially with research tasks, code audits - just to see if I've missed something, rapid frontend interface development and so much more if we go beyond the realm of just code.

YMMV but I use ChatGPT even for stuff like cooking recipes based on whatever's inside my fridge. And this maybe just me, but I feel like my usage of Google has probably gone down to 50-60%.

All this for $20 is really insane. Like you said, "people who are willing to put in work" really matters - that usually means being more intentional about your prompts, giving it as much context as possible.



Rather than anti-AI, I think most of the HN crowd are educated enough about underlying technology and it's capabilities to see the snake oil being pushed. Most of us would have given it a good go (and probably still use it daily), just know the difference between its actual limitations and the dreams that are being sold.


Is it really snake oil if it actually has meaningful time savings? Dismissing AI completely off as just snake oil seems to be extreme.


> HN crowd is generally anti-AI, so you're not going to get a lot of positive feedback here.

Is this a joke? The front page of HN is 99% AI-positive. Things have calmed down a bit but there was a time when it felt like every other article on the front page was promoting AI.




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