"Because what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside propriety products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent." Oof.

Depends what you mean by mainstream, I guess. The sheer volume of scams, ponzis and bad actors sets it back every time it gains popularity.

Agreed. I'd also throw in that you should stick to one language for a while. It can get tempting to want to play with a lot of different things. That can hurt you. I'd stick to something like javascript/python and focus on fundamentals.

I've been using it a lot to think through development builds. I'll tell it the architecture that i'm thinking, the tech stack, and go back and forth with it. It saves a lot of time and helps me think through my process. That's my main use case (with copilot to finish the deal). The token limits are a pain for full code generation.

I'm working on a site right now where I use the API to generate me full summaries of AI sites. Features, excerpts, descriptions. It works really nice. I find it works best when you split the prompts up.