This isn't about the promise of AI to me, it's more about this type of AI technology, which should more accurately be called LLMs, as there are others.
Skepticism aside, looking at what's been possible or similar, much like Microsoft word introduces more and more grammar related features, LLMs are reasonably decent for the use case of supplying your input to it and speeding up iterations with you at the drivers seat. Whether it's text in a word processor, or code in an editor, there is likely some meaningful improvements to not dismiss the technology.
The inverse of that, where someone wants a magic seed prompt to do everything, could prove to be a bit more challenging where existing models are trained on what they know, and steps to move beyond that where they learn appear to be a few years away.
Skepticism aside, looking at what's been possible or similar, much like Microsoft word introduces more and more grammar related features, LLMs are reasonably decent for the use case of supplying your input to it and speeding up iterations with you at the drivers seat. Whether it's text in a word processor, or code in an editor, there is likely some meaningful improvements to not dismiss the technology.
The inverse of that, where someone wants a magic seed prompt to do everything, could prove to be a bit more challenging where existing models are trained on what they know, and steps to move beyond that where they learn appear to be a few years away.