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> no one used it.

Can you explain what you mean?

The premise of why AI will change the world is because Jill from accounting is going to make a custom reporting app.

Thing is Jill always could do that, she just didn’t leverage the information available.

Now Jill can make the reporting app, until it is sufficiently complex that the code collapses under its own weight or she finds that the numbers don’t actually mean what she thinks.

The thing that's changed is how time is no longer major limiting factor. Previously Jill would have had to learn enough about programming to make an app, whereas now she can write a few prompts and receive something good enough even if her lack of programming knowledge means the code is house-of-cards waiting to fall

No, she will receive something she thinks is good enough, but will have subtle bugs leading to wrong accounting without her realising, and potentially leaking all customer information all over the internet, and the entire business process grinding to a halt when she leaves

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