One of the most wild parts of the "Is AI useful" arguments is how different people are getting so astoundingly different results from it. One guy will claim that he can one-shot "Port this unmaintained app from 2017 to modern Android," go do the dishes, and come back to a working application. And the next guy will say, "I can't get it to do anything groundbreaking and have to micro-babysit it every step of the way to the point where it is more work." Assuming both people are truthful and operating in good faith, how can this be explained? How can simply writing a prompt in English be a "skill issue?"
I'm personally much more towards the "I struggle to get it to work well" side, but there have been so many anecdotes from people who are earnestly saying it does all their work for them and that they hit enter, go to bed, and wake up to working software. I'm trying to imagine a hammer or band saw that produces such wildly different results in the hands of different users.
I'm personally much more towards the "I struggle to get it to work well" side, but there have been so many anecdotes from people who are earnestly saying it does all their work for them and that they hit enter, go to bed, and wake up to working software. I'm trying to imagine a hammer or band saw that produces such wildly different results in the hands of different users.