Leo's amazing predictions

[Michal__]

51 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It costs $2+ per query.

When using cursor one question can take 10+ minutes to complete and can cost like 10$.

I have spent 50$/1 - 2 hours with Cursor. 

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Michal__ said:

When using cursor one question can take 10+ minutes to complete and can cost like 10$.

I have spent 50$/1 - 2 hours with Cursor. 

Interesting.

I hope it's worth it.

Edited 18 minutes ago by Leo Gura

[something_else]

12 minutes ago, bazera said:

Yes me too, but how will new people become seniors without going through that junior experience first.

Strange times.

Yea, exactly. It's going to be interesting to see how this pans out.

We've completely restructured our entire team now as a result of AI. Instead of having two squads of 4 devs each working on one feature, now every dev is working on one feature in a 'pod' with a designer and a product manager. Even if the feature is massive, it gets one dev. Because of AI assisted coding this is manageable, and actually we're all loving it because we get a ton of autonomy and ownership over features that we didn't get before.

For a while, when we were working in squads of 4, it felt like devs became meat interfaces to Claude. The product team came up with a feature, designer designed it, tech lead broke it down and wrote tickets for us and then we basically pasted the tickets into Claude.

Now each dev has complete ownership over the lifecycle of their feature, manage their own tickets, breaking it down however they like, architecting a solution, working closely with product and designers etc. I think this may be how the future of software engineering is going to be, moving away from the complexities of writing code and more towards system design, consultation, and collaboration.

[Leo Gura]

The problem I find with using AI to do creative work is that you end up wasting way too much time trying to get the AI to create what you want, and it never really creates what you truly wanted. But you wasted 10 hours fiddling with the knobs. By the time you invested 10 hours into it, you're hooked. But it isn't really creating what you wanted.

Such a process is the death of creativity and spirit. Rather than being truly creative and skillful, you are just manipulating knobs to get half-assed approximations of something good.

Using AI is almost like gambling. At least that's the case for image generation. It takes hours of trial and error just to create one usable image.

Edited 5 minutes ago by Leo Gura

[Leo Gura]

Correction: Earlier in this thread I said the gold EFT is called GDX. That was a mistake. It is called GLD.

Edited 1 minute ago by Leo Gura