Yes but now that it is possible I shouldn’t be spending half a day to do it. We’re on the verge of computers _finally_ becoming full blown assistants rather than just dumb tools that you have to painstakingly learn to use and then operate by hand, and people are saying we’re “done”. Just before computers are about to become dramatically more usable for people without “computer” skills.
Because I need to not just book the tickets and an arbitrary hotel. I need to get tickets with constraints - for one thing I’d like to have a bit more legroom on that 13 hour flight. For another, I need to also sit next to my wife and kid. Hotels can’t just be anywhere in Shanghai, they need to have decent reviews, be close to the things we want to see, and not be too expensive. I also need to arrange transportation to the things we need to see, and so on and so forth. A much simpler trip to Hawaii takes hours of digging through the piles of SEO enshittified garbage. It’s like this with nearly everything you want to buy or do. But I feel like we’re ratholing on trip planning too much.
Let’s do coding shall we? How about I just tell my editor, verbally or in writing, “refactor this method so that it does this and that and then update all call sites project-wide”? Or “would invariants of this program break if I do such and such”.
Or my DAW: “add a bit of dark plate reverb to the guitar, and fade out in the end”, or “isolate guitar and slow down the track in this file, and then loop this lick, I would like to learn it; oh and also tell me where I’m not playing it correctly”. Or “give me a backing blues track without the guitar that’d fit this chord progression”.
All of that without necessarily training the model exhaustively to do every combination of these things.
We could make programs _so much_ better than they currently are, it’s not even funny.
Why are you spending half a day? I rarely spend even an eighth of that doing tasks that people here claim to take them ages? Have people forgotten how to use computers or is the UX for those really that bad?