Ask HN: Have LLM or generative AI made you more productive?
Summary
A discussion on Hacker News explores the productivity impact of LLMs and generative AI across various industries, highlighting mixed experiences from users in gaming and web development.
Why It Matters
Understanding the productivity implications of LLMs and generative AI is crucial for businesses and developers alike. As these technologies evolve, insights from different sectors can inform best practices and realistic expectations, guiding future integrations and innovations in workflows.
Key Takeaways
- Mixed experiences with LLMs suggest limited productivity gains in some fields, like gaming and web development.
- Some users report significant improvements in processes previously deemed impossible, particularly in data handling.
- The conversation highlights the need for realistic expectations regarding AI's role in replacing or augmenting human work.
Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitloginAsk HN: Have LLM or generative AI made you more productive?2 points by Kapura on Oct 4, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 commentsI work in the gaming industry, and while there was a push to try to find integrations for AI, the most promising usages of machine learning algorithms are in areas like anti-cheat. One engineer reported success using a GPT product to generate some code which he could then correct, but the majority of his job doesn't actually involve writing large amounts of new code so the utility is extremely limited. I don't know of any other usages of LLM across our teams.I am extremely interested in hearing of success stories from other industries, or conversely I'd love to hear about what other experiments others have been doing. zoezoezoezoe on Oct 4, 2024 | next [â] As a web developer, I think AI has made very little impact to perhaps menially more productive, many developers will try to sell AI as replacements for developers, and they're just wrong, the only place AI has for web dev is advanced auto complete (super maven) and a replacement for google (custom, working on this)maremmano on Oct 4, 2024 | prev | next [â] I use LLMs in various use cases for some of my client companies, with excellent results. I would say that they make some processes much more productive. If not, they make some processes possible that were not possible before. i.e. retrieving structured data from unstructur...
