There's a manual verification process that has always existed for people who lost their ID before their flight, it used to be free, now you need to do that and pay $45 for it.

They had me answer a series of questions about past addresses etc, it wasn't just an extra pat down in my case. After answering all the questions correctly they allowed me to continue.

You can actually board a domestic flight without any ID at all, for example if you lost it before your trip. But you'll have to go through a manual identity verification process. That includes giving fingerprints and answering personal questions only you should know, like past addresses.

It takes around 30 minutes and if you don't answer correctly, you could be denied boarding. This process already existed before the Real ID requirement, but it used to be free. Now, you're forced to go through the same manual verification steps and pay $45 on top of it.

You're being treated the same as if you have no ID with you at all.

Yeah, because human developers never allow mistakes to make it to production. Never happens.

"We tried a particular approach using XCode to create an app that does X but were unsuccessful. Therefore, nobody is able to use Xcode to create apps that do X"

If there are 150,000 ICD codes an Agent may be able to accomplish this that leverages LLMs in the process. LLMs may be able to be used as _part of a process_ that does successfully accomplish this task.

the absolute fixation some people have over the use of the term AI - isn't the measurable output of this technology more productive to discuss?

The answer always measurable for a given task

For some tasks the answer is measurably demonstrably: yes, today.

no

calling something "hype" should not be a stand-in for data

fairly bare bones but video playback seems to work a lot better (in my biased opinion:) )

It's annoyingly arrogant to assume people could only be impressed having ignored that.

It's impressive to me not by ignoring that at all. Matrix multiplication is apparently capable of producing poetry, jokes, insults, abstract ideas, etc (to some level at least) - but in your mind it's a pixar movie? Words arise from a team of angels pulling levers?

Fascination is not from thinking LLM are advanced as us - fascination is from wondering how much more complicated are we than that?

maybe an elaborate workflow, but each individual step in that workflow isn't insurmountable

if you cannot get the correct answer in one shot, instead a workflow is required, we should just write off this whole thing as useless or setup that workflow? will let the reader decide

It's bold (to put kindly) how lengthy some of these critical comments are from folks who later in the thread admit to not personally used Copilot (for example) much themselves.

The quality of LLM output can wildly vary based on what prompts (or series of prompts) are used.

Helping write boilerplate is to Copilot what cropping is to Photoshop.

Some of the ways I've found Copilot a powerful tool in my toolbox: Writing missing comments (especially unfamiliar code bases), "translating" parts of unfamiliar code to a more familiar language, suggesting ideas for how to implement a feature (!) in comments.