I got a lot of garbage when I didn’t know what I was doing and just tried AI once or twice a week with lazy prompts, expecting perfection without iterations. I’d huff and crow about how I had to fix things, whereas now I just tell it what to fix, or even better how to get it right the first time. I’ve built up my library of skills and prompts and refined them quite a bit. The models keep getting smarter. You should really look at your tools and methods - sounds like you’re stuck in 2024.
I’ve been using it rather heavily since about October of last year, I definitely do notice the models getting better, the tools around the models starting to do some things automatically that I had to manually prompt for last year (especially remembering key instructions). I also believe I am getting better at using them, how much that contributes to my overall results is extremely hard to quantify, but the feeling is definitely there. Like - last October I used to “just ask” for things without having a documented set of requirements. Today, I just know that the requirements document is necessary when the level of complexity is above… well, above a one-off simple example of how to do something relatively trivial.
I got a lot of garbage when I didn’t know what I was doing and just tried AI once or twice a week with lazy prompts, expecting perfection without iterations. I’d huff and crow about how I had to fix things, whereas now I just tell it what to fix, or even better how to get it right the first time. I’ve built up my library of skills and prompts and refined them quite a bit. The models keep getting smarter. You should really look at your tools and methods - sounds like you’re stuck in 2024.
I’ve been using it rather heavily since about October of last year, I definitely do notice the models getting better, the tools around the models starting to do some things automatically that I had to manually prompt for last year (especially remembering key instructions). I also believe I am getting better at using them, how much that contributes to my overall results is extremely hard to quantify, but the feeling is definitely there. Like - last October I used to “just ask” for things without having a documented set of requirements. Today, I just know that the requirements document is necessary when the level of complexity is above… well, above a one-off simple example of how to do something relatively trivial.