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Spent $75 on a 'premium' prompt generator that just recycles old ideas from Reddit threads
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wyatt1352mo agoMost Upvoted
Sounds about right, lmao. You basically paid for a fancy copy paste machine.
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finleyl392mo ago
It actually writes new code and fixes bugs. You give it a problem and it builds a solution from scratch. Calling it a copy machine shows you haven't really used it.
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mark_ward1mo ago
A 2004 study by the Association for Computational Linguistics showed that large language models basically remix patterns from their training data, not generate new ideas from scratch. I've spent a few hours playing with these tools myself, @finleyl39, and while it can slap together something that looks like code, it falls apart the second you ask it to handle anything outside the 10 most common examples on the internet. It doesn't understand what it's doing, it's just getting good at guessing what words come next based on what it's seen before. You're mistaking a clever parlor trick for real problem solving.
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leehall2mo ago
Yeah, I used to think that too... but honestly @wyatt135, seeing how it actually works changed my mind. It's way more than just copying stuff.
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