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Right, and what I’m saying is that the ‘usefulness’ that people claim to have discovered is totally nonsensical because these problems have been solved for decades
exactly. It's people realizing what coding is for the first time because it's being shoved in our faces. Before all this (bought and paid for propaganda) publicity, your average dummy had no idea what code was or did.
Basically, the non-tech people who know nothing about coding or how computers work are now amazed because they (think they) discovered what coding is because of the AI hype.
Yes but now they are accessible to anyone.
Your perspective is actually completely backwards on this
This process has always been accessible to everyone. You’d google basically the same words you typed into your prompt and it would bring you directly to the same block of code that everybody uses.
AI on the other hand is currently temporarily being made available for free or low cost because they are actively trying to create a cohort of users who impulsively “just reach for AI” as their first step to solving every problem.
In a few years you may find yourself praising how “accessible” it is because they occasionally run offers for a week of subscription time for $40 instead of the usual rate of $189.99/mo for entry level access. You may find yourself wondering how people ever lived without it