Ask HN: Has AI improved your life in any way?

1 point by kva 1 year ago | 6 comments
Just wondering...do you feel like AI has even begun to deliver on its promise. Is it making your life better?
  • shams93 1 year ago
    So far only the Ai I trained myself, I won an award for that, but then was laid off due to github copilot being really good, and haven't found work since so its not been good.
    • silverquiet 1 year ago
      I’m not a developer, but I do sometimes write code and it can write fairly trivial code way faster than me, but it never works exactly on the first try. Any real conundrum I face and it falls apart pretty fast and just offers the most generic advice imaginable.

      So there is a bit of a convenience factor, but all the people saying it’s a game-changer strike me as a bit premature at best.

      • dr_dshiv 1 year ago
        It really helped my son learn to program, he is making all kinds of things now with Arduino.

        I think it is psychologically beneficial for me—the upsides tend to outweigh the downsides.

        • kva 1 year ago
          What tools does your son use?
        • shrimp_emoji 1 year ago
          I'd be screwed without calculators, specifically my TI-84 Plus.
          • dnakhla 1 year ago
            finding information is much easier