>Even before then, I looked at the maths puzzles they were doing well at, and I found I did not understand the questions let alone the answers.
okay, and?
>Even before then, the free trials of Claude Code and Codex at the end of last year and start of this year… despite their flaws, they could write all the code I've ever been paid to write.
Boy, programmers sure do think programming is like the only thing in the world
I'll repeat it for you again:
If you're only seeing the charts go up - you're not looking in the right places.
They're not only useful for programming, it's just that programming is by itself a trillion dollar a year industry. This, by itself, is sufficient to not be the scam you assert it to be.
They may not work for your industry, but then again I don't know what your industry is.
Bluntly, over my lifetime, I've heard "AI will never/not in my lifetime do X" repeatedly within a year of it doing X, for many different X. It's good at getting good. The most recent one being "make useful contributions to millennium prize maths problems". A year or two before that, it was even "do well on degree-level economics essays".
Artists are unhappy, not only because it rips off their work, but because businesses that were previously hiring them now use it instead. This is much smaller (strictly in terms of money) than with software, but is also measurable.
Now, if you said Tesla's self-driving cars (another AI) are a trillion dollar scam, that I would even agree with. At least, for the market cap part, for actual sales it's more like a billion dollar (ish) scam.
>They're not only useful for programming, it's just that programming is by itself a trillion dollar a year industry. This, by itself, is sufficient to not be the scam you assert it to be.
Yeah, if you think I'm being overly literal. Regardless, people here were positing, yourself included, that they are widely useful.
> Bluntly, over my lifetime, I've heard "AI will never/not in my lifetime do X" repeatedly within a year of it doing X, for many different X. It's
Again, over my lifetime, I've seen it been told to me that the next iteration of each model will surely be the one that does away with my entire profession. Yet, again, here we are, firms at my door, begging me to use their tools.
>Artists are unhappy, not only because it rips off their work, but because businesses that were previously hiring them now use it instead.
No, they are unhappy because it rips off their work. You're totally wrong about that.
okay, and?
>Even before then, the free trials of Claude Code and Codex at the end of last year and start of this year… despite their flaws, they could write all the code I've ever been paid to write.
Boy, programmers sure do think programming is like the only thing in the world
I'll repeat it for you again:
If you're only seeing the charts go up - you're not looking in the right places.