It means that you no longer need to go through an intermediary to get the result you want. You have the end product in your mind, you just don't have the ability to translate it into reality.
I can give you the real example of recently needing to translates ancient 90's era manufacturing files into modern ones, while also generating companion automation files from it (which needs to by done manually but with tooling to facilitate the process).
I found a company that sells software capable of doing this. A license is $1000/yr/usr.
The next day I was able to get claude 3.7 to make a program that does all that, translate the files, and then have a GUI that renders them so an engineer can go through and manually demarcate points, which then are used to calculate and output the automation file. This took about 45 minutes and is what the department is using now. We have thousands of these files that will need to get modernized as they get used.
I see this everywhere now, and I have been building bespoke programs left an right. Whether it be an audio spectrum analyzer that allows me to finely tune my stereo equalizer visually based on feedback for any given track, or an app on my phone that instantly calculates futures prices and margin requirements for given position sizes and predicted market movements.
People think LLMs will be a paradigm shift, I can tell you the shift has already happened, it's just a matter of awareness now.
> an app on my phone that instantly calculates futures prices and margin requirements for given position sizes and predicted market movements.
That sounds like something for which one should be spending the money on professionally developed and well-tested software. What's the expression? Penny wise, pound foolish.
Not really, because the equations are straight forward and not particularly difficult. Most people could model it in excel no problem. Is it a guarantee that it is robust? No. But I'm also only using it myself instead of ball parking like I previously would.
I can give you the real example of recently needing to translates ancient 90's era manufacturing files into modern ones, while also generating companion automation files from it (which needs to by done manually but with tooling to facilitate the process).
I found a company that sells software capable of doing this. A license is $1000/yr/usr.
The next day I was able to get claude 3.7 to make a program that does all that, translate the files, and then have a GUI that renders them so an engineer can go through and manually demarcate points, which then are used to calculate and output the automation file. This took about 45 minutes and is what the department is using now. We have thousands of these files that will need to get modernized as they get used.
I see this everywhere now, and I have been building bespoke programs left an right. Whether it be an audio spectrum analyzer that allows me to finely tune my stereo equalizer visually based on feedback for any given track, or an app on my phone that instantly calculates futures prices and margin requirements for given position sizes and predicted market movements.
People think LLMs will be a paradigm shift, I can tell you the shift has already happened, it's just a matter of awareness now.