I have only seen people making money in AI by selling AI products/promises to other people who are losing money. The practical uses of these tools still seem to be largely untapped outside of as enhanced search engines. They're great at that, but that does not have a return on value that is in proportion to current investment in this space.
Sure. Absolutely nothing amazing: (Mostly) internal software for a medical business I am currently building.
It's just that the actual cost of hiring someone is even quite a bit higher, than what is printed on the paycheck and the risk attached to anyone leaving on a small team is huge (n=0 and n=1 is an insane difference). GPT4 has bridged the gap between being able to do something and not being able to do something at various points over the past year.
EDIT: And to be clear, while I won't claim "rockstar programmer", I have coded for roughly 20 years, which is the larger part of my life.
The kicker? It couldn't do the interactive menu their old website did, so now clicking menu links to a PDF. Which is always, ALWAYS, better.
I'm pretty sure he could have done that with one of the thousands tools like Wix, many years before ChatGPT.
Some of it's in asking ChatGPT: "Give me the 3 possible ways to implement X?" and getting something back I hadn't considered. A lot of it is in sort of "super code completion".
I use Cursor and the UI is very slick. If I'm stuck on something (like a method that's not working) I can highlight it and hit Cmd+L and it will explain the code and then suggest how to fix it.
Hit Cmd+K and it will write out the code for you. Also, gotten a lot of mileage out of writing out a rough version of something in a language I know and then getting the AI to turn that into something else (ex: Ruby to Lua).
If you estimate that it saves hou 10 hours per month, but your salary stays the same and you don’t work less hours, did it really give you $2,000 in value?
Obviously I don’t know the details of OPs situation. Maybe they aren’t salaries. Maybe the work for themselves. Etc.. I just think people tend to over estimate the value of GPTs unless it is actually leaving them with more money in their pocket.