I feel like I’m going crazy, using all of the best models, spending time to have excellent prompts, configuring tools and skills… and still getting overly complex solutions with mediocre results.
Like it’s still impressive how far we’ve come, and undoubtably cool technology. It’s made a bunch of personal projects possible that I never would’ve started.
But for a business I’m struggling to see the ROI. Sometimes there’s a big benefit and sometimes it’s net negative. Not saying we won’t get there but I’m trying to stay grounded in the reality of today rather than the hopes of where the technology could get to
It's brilliant tooling, and made the mundane/tedious parts of my work a lot easier.
But, I fear that the "facade of complexity" makes the output SEEM better. Someone might read a 10 page Codex generated plan with fancy diagrams / charts and have a feeling that because it is so complex, it must be good!
Same deal with text output in general. Oh, it uses a lot of big words and there's a LOT here, it must have done a lot of work to get to that point.
I find, in reality, that it takes much more effort to get to the simplest solution.
As they say, any old fella can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands...
I feel like I’m going crazy, using all of the best models, spending time to have excellent prompts, configuring tools and skills… and still getting overly complex solutions with mediocre results.
Like it’s still impressive how far we’ve come, and undoubtably cool technology. It’s made a bunch of personal projects possible that I never would’ve started.
But for a business I’m struggling to see the ROI. Sometimes there’s a big benefit and sometimes it’s net negative. Not saying we won’t get there but I’m trying to stay grounded in the reality of today rather than the hopes of where the technology could get to