Time will tell, if this PoV is valid. I can tell you that a flashy, sexy demo, is not the same thing as shipping code.
A number of comments state that the quality of the output is fairly sparse, and amateurish, but this was also a very fast, thirty-minute demo of a marketing workflow, subjected to basic AI tools.
This article was the equivalent of those "Write an app in two hours" seminar/bootcamps.
Valid, but also constrained by the need to teach, and to get done within a certain amount of time. Very strict guardrails, and keep your hands inside the car at all times.
I have taken many, many of these courses, and have given a few. I'm quite aware of the difference between what we produce in a class, and what I'd hand to a customer.
What I think we'll be seeing, quite soon, is "one-person shops," acting as studios/agencies that will take on jobs normally done by large shops.
Like bootcamp babes that go out, thinking that they can now deliver a full-fat app to customers, many will fail.
But some will succeed. Lots of smart, hungry people, out there.
We'll look at what can be done with these tools (which, I should add, are still very much in their infancy. You ain't seen nuthin', yet). I don't think they'll be able to write the deliverables, yet, but that's OK. I think we may be able to leverage them to make those deliverables much more polished and robust.
I mean if the work could get done without ChatGPT then it's not getting done with ChatGPT any magnitude faster but it may help reduce the intervallic brain farts by being able to ask more than stack overflow has db results for
Time will tell, if this PoV is valid. I can tell you that a flashy, sexy demo, is not the same thing as shipping code.
A number of comments state that the quality of the output is fairly sparse, and amateurish, but this was also a very fast, thirty-minute demo of a marketing workflow, subjected to basic AI tools.
This article was the equivalent of those "Write an app in two hours" seminar/bootcamps.
Valid, but also constrained by the need to teach, and to get done within a certain amount of time. Very strict guardrails, and keep your hands inside the car at all times.
I have taken many, many of these courses, and have given a few. I'm quite aware of the difference between what we produce in a class, and what I'd hand to a customer.
What I think we'll be seeing, quite soon, is "one-person shops," acting as studios/agencies that will take on jobs normally done by large shops.
Like bootcamp babes that go out, thinking that they can now deliver a full-fat app to customers, many will fail.
But some will succeed. Lots of smart, hungry people, out there.
We'll look at what can be done with these tools (which, I should add, are still very much in their infancy. You ain't seen nuthin', yet). I don't think they'll be able to write the deliverables, yet, but that's OK. I think we may be able to leverage them to make those deliverables much more polished and robust.