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Christopher Jolma's avatar

Great piece. I can see the reason pulling away, but for some reason I’m unable to board. It’s like those dreams where you really need to run but your feet are encased in concrete.

I’ve played with Grok and ChatGPT, and I took a few courses from Dave Birss on LinkedIn Learning, but I’m still overwhelmed.

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David Gollob's avatar

i sympathise: as an older man looking towards the end of life and managing THAT slippery slope, i wonder sometimes how much it is reasonable for me to invest in tech acquisition.

the answer is ; make the most out of what you can use to save time and boost your creativity... leave the hype to one side; it's all noise until it is focused on your needs...

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Charlie Guo's avatar

> make the most out of what you can use to save time and boost your creativity

I strongly agree with this. I had to confront my own "AI fatigue" after a couple of years consuming AI content: https://www.ignorance.ai/p/dealing-with-ai-fatigue

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Stephen Fitzpatrick's avatar

Great post. I sympathize with many people's reluctance and fear, but I am getting tired of hearing their opinions when they don't know what they're talking about.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Well done. I've tried VERY hard to get the people I care about to step on the moving platform already. I may share this with some of them.

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Charlie Guo's avatar

Some things I write to be selfish, and some things I write to be shared. This is the latter - glad it resonated!

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Patrick Jordan's avatar

Love this, mucho

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SOLOMON Z FOSHKO's avatar

I know many I can share this guide with….

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Adriatic's avatar

Very useful information, Charlie, thanks. While I stepped in the mud already, I am going to comply

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Sarah Madden's avatar

Honestly there’s a lot of ‘blame the user’ here. For 99% of people AI is only useful as a slightly better google search. There’s simply no AI use case yet with significant TAM.

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Charlie Guo's avatar

GitHub Copilot hit $300M in ARR last July (likely higher now), and Cursor surpassed $500M in ARR as of this week - you don't consider this significant TAM?

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Sarah Madden's avatar

Developers are not a mass market cohort. 300m ARR in that space is an SMB sized company. I’m totally open to be proven wrong but I haven’t seen one mass market feature yet. I say this as a subscriber to ChatGPT. It helps me, mostly as a more advanced research tool. But I’m not going to pretend my usage will translate to mass market enterprise use cases.

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Albanskiye Drug Bisht's avatar

Getting reminded of the last job I held years ago - implementing technical support for marketing op's in a large tech company. Just for the audacity of suggesting to use an off-the-shelf customizable A.I. which could help save hours of work from dozens of positions in an unbelievably overcrowded dept - instead of spending years training and refining a custom model for simple, generalized use - got the boot "for not being in line with the company" ??

Well, feeling pretty much vindicated by now. Trying to save millions of dollars isn't in my JD.

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