A friend of mine who has at most written some SQL joins recently bought a cheap thermal printer on Amazon. The printer was meant to be used with a heavily ad and microstransaction laden app to operate over Bluetooth. He was able to use codex to hook it up to his MacBook and reverse engineer the printer then make a web service so he can print whatever he wants from anywhere.

I agree with you in that I now feel like a 100x engineer, but I think it would have taken me a long time to figure that one out pre AI.

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jonahx an hour ago | parent | next [-]

My experience with non-technical people using AI is not like this at all. Perhaps your friend is an outlier?

	▲	gurjeet an hour ago \| parent [-]
		GP's friend knows SQL joins, so I wouldn't lump her into the 'non-technical' group.

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aprilthird2021 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

At most written some SQL joins implies your friend is far more tech savvy than the average plumber