I built a plane spotter for my son in minutes
It's great to be amazed by this stuff, but it really just shows how poor human intuition is at these things.> Imagine envisioning Airbnb, and having its whole frontend and backend done within 1 minute....sigh...You're seeing the tip of an iceberg, and you're like, "wow, it's cold"... but you honestly have no idea.Any tool that you spend less an hour using, you have no idea about.That's it. There's nothing more to say.Use it for longer. Try building larger things. Give me a considered opinion when you've formed one, not a reaction video.There was a spate of this kind of article when chat-gpt first came out, and at the time, it was like: why are we seeing these "I spent 10 seconds with a LLM and I made a potato!" and "I spent 20 minutes with an LLM and made a one-page HTML website!" articles, and none of the "I spent a month with an LLM and build a new programming language", or "I spent two weeks with an LLM and I build a raytracer" articles?Oh they said, "It's too soon, give it time... it's only been out a month. 3 months... 6 months...".You still don't see them....because they don't exist.No one has done anything impressive with this stuff; it's fundamentally limited in what it can produce, and the massive productivity benefits you see (30x faster!) are for trivial tasks, not difficult tasks....and the modest productivity benefits you get from using an actual copilot don't make articles that are nearly as interesting to get as many clicks.Look, AI can seem magical, but when you have something that seems too good to be true, after using it for an hour, or even a day, maybe it's not the right moment to drop a blog post about how gosh darn amazing it is?