| ▲ | mjr00 8 hours ago |
| > why are the examples given of futuristic capabilities always so visionless - it's always booking a flight or scheduling a meeting. This AI wave is filled with "ideas guys/gals" who thought they had an amazing awesome idea and if only they knew how to program they could make a best-selling billion dollar idea, being confronted with the reality that their ideas are really uninteresting as well. They're still happy to write blog posts about how their bleeding-edge Claw setup sends them a push notification whenever someone comments on one of their LinkedIn posts, though. |
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| ▲ | FpUser 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I have "new genius" ideas very often. After doing quick search I discover that any idea worth thinking of implementation is either implemented already or what seems to be low barrier to entry clashes with some legal obstacles. |
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| ▲ | aorloff 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have the opposite problem. I have a genius idea, and I start to research it. I find a company that actually built a solid product, dangit this is really good. They appear to have executed well, but they failed, or went nowhere, heck the app is still out there. Maybe they are even chugging along but its a smaller business even with a better product than I would have been able to build. Had I been a founder of the product, I would be questioning staying. Then I also find sometimes I was doing it all wrong and the world has moved past my notions of products. I think there's a market opportunity because I don't realize that the rest of the world is already cool using a $15 plant hygrometer bluetooth device which can also keep track of your medicine or food in your cooler, my notion of the value of something is skewed by western costs | |
| ▲ | volkercraig 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Interestingly that sort of research is actually what I've used Claude/Chatgpt deep research and openclaw for. If I have an idea, I get an agent to go and do some product research for me and see if there is a market, if anyone has tried it, and if there is anyone doing it. It has unironically saved me a lot of time I would have otherwise spent going down rabbit holes. Of the models I've found that claude doesn't gas you up as much as GPT, so for stuff like this where the answer can be "no, that's not a good idea" I usually use claude. | | | |
| ▲ | mmarian 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Story of my life. |
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| ▲ | stbtrax 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| the whole obsequious nature of how LLMs also amp them up thinking they're onto something incredible is throwing gas on this dumpster fire. "What a great idea! This will revolutionize linkedin commenting. Let's implement it together." |
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| ▲ | johnisgood 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh for sure. When I present something to the LLM it always tells me how great it is until I make it "question" it, then it says it was overestimating this or that. Eh. Quite annoying. | | |
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| ▲ | brightball 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Wait til you see my todo app though… |
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| ▲ | cassepipe 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Can it suggest me to do the things I should do ? Can it talk to me into overcoming what's blocking me from completing tasks at an emotional level ? :) | | |
| ▲ | tacticus 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | nope. It won't even help you understand that the 20 second task you've been putting off for 6 months causing anxiety will only take 20 seconds (nor will we learn from this) | | |
| ▲ | rigrassm 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or the fact that in the time it took me to read this thread I could have finished that task. Sometimes I really want to punch my brain in its stupid face lol. |
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| ▲ | _dain_ 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yeah it seems like we're still in the "XYZ ... but on a computer!" stage of AI. |
