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If they sell a magic app building machine, its not crazy to ask them build an app with it, is it?


To be fair they can, they'll just run 10k agents and some $20k worth of tokens and they will have a slack replacement without any manual coding, Sure it will have missing features like search and permissions, security will be figured out later, and you can't compile it on your machine, but it's 80% done, how hard can that 20% be?


Still better than Slack and Teams.


the sad part is ... its likely true.


Of course it is. Making shovels and digging holes are different skills and require different organizations.


But this is a magic shovel that digs holes and tunnels all by itself exactly as intended. It should be able to do this without any special skill involved in prompting it.


You're thinking post-scarcity. We aren't there yet, but one say well have a magic wand, magic shovel, and magic anything else that is currently scarce.


You sound like a low-information luddite. Have you tried this week's latest model? You're probably prompting it wrong.


Sorry, I don't follow how a sarcastic joke about the claims of post-scarcity would make me a ludite or imply that I am saying models today aren't useful for certain tasks.


They too are being sarcastic.


no it isn't


But it's not unreasonable to ask the shovel salesman to show me a hole that model of shovel was used to dig.


Can you imagine how well they'd sell their product if they could actually demonstrate it's capabilities by just, at a whim, duplicating a non-trivial software product.


Why do that when they can sell you a shovel to do it yourself?


why don't you buy a subscription and ask the magic machine yourself.... You just need to take out your credit card....




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