Hey all,
What have I been up to?
I am back from the break I took in December. I had a lot of fun doing various activities unrelated to AI — catching up with old friends visiting me, seeing shows, and doing a bit of travel.
As many of you who are here learning a new topic which is Natural Language Processing, I also spent quite a lot of time in December learning a new topic for me which is building SaaS. Even though I am quite familiar with programming, I knew very little about deploying full-stack web apps to the internet.
There are a lot of frameworks like Laravel, Django, React, and so on out there — but very few or no hands-on tutorials on deploying a full-stack web app as quickly and effectively as possible. Luckily, Ryan Kulp filled out that void with an excellent course on building SaaS MVPs in 24 hours. Highly recommend it! His lectures are great but took quite a while to catch up (I estimate 30+ hours of videos plus 20+ hours of coding and I am still not done).
I am feeling much more confident in building SaaS MVPs, so look forward to me talking about AI + SaaS in the next months on this blog. I am not planning to just stop on SaaS MVP so aiming to build out a few SaaSes this year and focus on ones that take off. But that’s for another time.
While I was on a break, ChatGPT happened
Lots of talk about it, lots of tweets about it, and lots of opinions about it.
Some people feel very optimistic about it and ready to proclaim that ChatGPT will take over all jobs.
Some people feel pessimistic and think that 3 million per day to run it is not worth it (not counting 100+ million on computing and talent to build it in the first place)
What is my opinion about it?
ChatGPT is useful but not essential
Yes, the junior programmer in your company can sleep well for the next few years knowing he has a full career ahead of him. Similarly, the marketer in your company can sleep well knowing that he/she will keep figuring out ways to market and sell the company’s products. I don’t think that any of the jobs are at risk.
However, not using ChatGPT or other AI tools like (GPT3, Github Copilot, Stable Diffusion, and many others coming in the future) PROPERLY will put you at a disadvantage.
Why?
Because you won’t be as efficient as the people around you.
It is an exciting time to be in the field both as a developer and as a user.
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