Those websites are janky despite having all the (non AI) solutions available already. They suck for reasons independent of the quality of LLMs. I have not worked inside a megacorp but my understanding is they suck because of what are essentially political roadblocks within the organisation.
Ok, let’s assume that’s the case and we’d never see those improve under any circumstances.
Where are all the killer new things? All we see are glorified hobby projects (guilty as charged) and an unimpressive pace of equally unimpressive feature additions to all the same old stuff.
Businesses with resources out there should tackling huge things we all want, that they never could have undertaken. But I’m not seeing it. Everything is just… more or less the same. And this tooling didn’t arrive last Wednesday.
Or did we get magical AI at a time when we’re also completely out of ideas? That seems unlikely.
This shit just isn’t adding up. We’re not seeinganything that isn’t more “here’s some more ai tools and services… they’re basically the same as the ones you saw last month.”
I agree they are over-hyped. Maybe the problem is that all the things LLMs are great for are essentially quality of life improvements. There are a dozen killer apps worth of functionality I get out of LLMs - near instant proofreader, one-shot code bugfixer, excellent cursory research tool, bibtext generator, etc. All of these things extend what I can do a bit but none of them instantly result in me being able to generate category killing apps. They still make stupid mistakes, they don't reduce my workload, but they reduce cognitive load on mundane tasks.
