you have complete control of the direction of the change. If it is going off in a direction you don’t like you can tell it to change course.
The speedup is when you are this with multiple features ...
This sounds like it still requires a fair amount of supervision and micro-management.
I guess it depends on the task. At times I've been astonished by its independently solving what seemed to me complex novel conceptual tasks, and at other times it produces sort of diffuse / unfocused outputs that leave me underwhelmed.
I should probably take comfort from the fact that I seem to be needed full-time to review and give directions for it to produce something useful. That's my value add. At the same time I wonder whether the fact that I'm still so involved in the process means that I'm just using it inefficiently.
Having it work on multiple jobs at once does sound like a way to speed things up a lot. The trick is to be able to supervise these. Even with the way I'm doing it now that doesn't involve all that much multi-tasking, there's a pretty intense cognitive burden just trying to hang on and understand what is being produced and thinking of next steps.
I guess it depends on the task. At times I've been astonished by its independently solving what seemed to me complex novel conceptual tasks, and at other times it produces sort of diffuse / unfocused outputs that leave me underwhelmed.
I should probably take comfort from the fact that I seem to be needed full-time to review and give directions for it to produce something useful. That's my value add. At the same time I wonder whether the fact that I'm still so involved in the process means that I'm just using it inefficiently.
Having it work on multiple jobs at once does sound like a way to speed things up a lot. The trick is to be able to supervise these. Even with the way I'm doing it now that doesn't involve all that much multi-tasking, there's a pretty intense cognitive burden just trying to hang on and understand what is being produced and thinking of next steps.
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