[I literally had this thought in the shower this morning so please don't gatekeep me lol.]

If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn't be constantly shoved your face by every product. People would just use it.

Imagine if printers were new and every piece of software was like "Hey, I can put this on paper for you" every time you typed a word. That would be insane. Printing is a need, and when you need to print, you just print.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I pay for Gemini and I haven’t used it in months. I don’t see any real case uses for me as an engineer. It just produces trash I have to fix and could have avoided if I did it myself in the beginning.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why do you continue to pay for it?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I like to make videos with it occasionally. They are fun to make.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's good at making up realistic looking fake data for testing and mock-ups, instead of the usual Person A in Town B.

    Small scripts also work out as long as they're small enough to print on a piece of paper.

    Writing some sales fluff in a document also works reasonably well.

    But those are just niche applications. For something serious it's not really usable so far.

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