AI Is A Junior Level Employee
Artificial Intelligence, like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT, are decent lots of tasks. But it seems as though there's still quite a bit of guidance needed from humans to get things working right.
Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly capable at tasks humans have long excelled at. In many cases, AI can perform these tasks more efficiently and at a lower cost. That said, I’m not advocating for replacing people with AI. Rather, I see AI as a powerful aid—one that helps accomplish work faster and more effectively than we could on our own.
AI As A Junior Level Employee
I've been working with a company to build out a cost calculator for a product they've built. The calculator is meant be a sales tool for potential customers to see the value and cost-savings they will get by using this company's software.
When I first got the project I knew that traditionally it would be way above my expertise. But with Anthropic's Claude chat bot, I was able to build it out successfully. During the build out I was shocked that some of my crazy-worded prompts Claude was able deciphered and complete the requested task.
Though for the most part even with Claude understanding some of my confusing prompts, it did take quite a bit of coaching and prompting to perfect the final product. This could have been a combination between my prompts and Claude. 😜 Either way, it seems that humans still need to be in the equation, but as more of the manager than the coder.
The Need For Background Knowledge
I noticed something else during the build out. I needed to have some working knowledge of the code that's being generated by Claude, otherwise following the directions, that Claude gives when it can't do something without human intervention, are next to impossible.
Will this change as AI gets better? Probably. But right now, coding with AI its very much a manager/employee-like relationship.
So, I Know Many Are Asking This – Are We Screwed?
As of right now? Nope. Maybe in the future, I'll have to reevaluate that statement.
Right now, I can see AI and humans working in a very symbiotic relationship.
What do you think? Let me know in the comments or send me an email.
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