the only reason it’s any good at that is some helpful human already developed great documentation of the process and put it online. search should have been sufficient
no. in that instance, search would have been sufficient.
but if that answer came in the form of tens of thousands of fragmented answers delivered over hundreds of thousands of forum posts/replies made over the course of 35+ years, then AI is able to parse all of that in seconds rather than making me do that over the course of, possibly, years (or just giving up long before then)-- and that’s a process I’ve already been through many, many times before over the decades.
no, if I can just save a bunch of time and simply ask Claude and get a reply that will not only give me the solution I need, but also explain to me exactly why the problem existed in the first place and why the solution works, then the AI is working is a positive way that’s worthwhile.
But it has. Repeatedly. And it often continues to do so. There are few things that contemporaneous AI truly excels at, but that’s definitely one of them: aggregating disparate information into condensed information summaries and drawing logical conclusions based off of that disparately assembled information. especially when that information is technical in nature.
And managing to do so all while teaching me all about the subject matter at hand better than I would’ve learned it by mucking around blind on my own? Amazing.
Did you even bother reading the previous comment that you replied to?
the only reason it’s any good at that is some helpful human already developed great documentation of the process and put it online. search should have been sufficient
no. in that instance, search would have been sufficient.
but if that answer came in the form of tens of thousands of fragmented answers delivered over hundreds of thousands of forum posts/replies made over the course of 35+ years, then AI is able to parse all of that in seconds rather than making me do that over the course of, possibly, years (or just giving up long before then)-- and that’s a process I’ve already been through many, many times before over the decades.
no, if I can just save a bunch of time and simply ask Claude and get a reply that will not only give me the solution I need, but also explain to me exactly why the problem existed in the first place and why the solution works, then the AI is working is a positive way that’s worthwhile.
i think that is pretty much not happening under any conceivable circumstance.
But it has. Repeatedly. And it often continues to do so. There are few things that contemporaneous AI truly excels at, but that’s definitely one of them: aggregating disparate information into condensed information summaries and drawing logical conclusions based off of that disparately assembled information. especially when that information is technical in nature.
And managing to do so all while teaching me all about the subject matter at hand better than I would’ve learned it by mucking around blind on my own? Amazing.
Did you even bother reading the previous comment that you replied to?