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GPTs and Feeling Left Behind

Every time that I read some blog post about “coding with AI”, or how cool new models write entire libraries by themselves, I feel like I’m lagging behind, like I’m missing out on some big, useful tool, and my skills are about to become obsolete very soon. So I try different models and tools, and it’s all incredibly underwhelming.

It’s honestly hard to believe that people get work done using these tools, because I can spend a few hours on them (without getting even close to finishing the task at hand) and realise that I could have done it myself in 25 minutes. Often times, they solve big problems by just importing a library that does not exist, and calling a function which does the bulk of the logic. Part of me wants to think that those articles are fake to generate hype, but the reality is that several of them are written by well-known developers who’ve been around for over a decade.

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