that's super true, it;s very hard for non-tech people to use ai at its peak power

specproc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's our moat, right there. I'm starting doing clean-up jobs now, advising non-technical users on where they're going wrong. I had a guy recently who'd spent well over a month on Claude, running up the wrong tree on a research question.

AI appears to be empowering non-technical users, but whether it's making them more productive or actually answering their questions is a completely different matter.

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gloxkiqcza an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm also convinced software engineering tools like git and markdown are currently the best way to use AI for most things even unrelated to software development. E.g., I think using markdown notes + LaTeX + git for writing contracts is more efficient than using Word + Copilot, which are the tools I would expect a lawyer to use.

	▲	boorang an hour ago \| parent [-]
		totally agree with the repo idea. working with AI in a git repo and allowing it to write markdown files it slowly builds context over time. i knew a guy who had been using the same session for weeks because he felt he had invested too much time in building the context and was scared to close the session.

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zerolunier an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

it can't basically, because all the ai's are build around the tech community, doing complex coding automation etc. nobody thinking about how normal user gone use it

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znnajdla 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's hard even for a lot of tech people to use AI at its peak power. Many of the programmers I know are not using it nearly as much as they could.

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alserio 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

asking the AI helps

	▲	miguelacevedo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That helps, but people tend to ask about uses they can already imagine. The hard part is discovering what’s possible beyond that.