The wave of AI announcements has become a tsunami.
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The wave of AI announcements has become a tsunami.
Every day a new feature comes out, exciting, advanced, and sometimes also... redundant.
This week I saw the announcement of a new MCP that interfaces with Jira and is easily created inside Docker.
It sounds futuristic and the excitement is evident (among developers, sorry to anyone for whom this is gibberish) but after a quarter of an hour of fiddling - I realized it's less convenient than the simple plugin I have in VS Code that already opens a branch for me and updates the ticket in Jira at the press of a button.
Same with the revolutionary announcement OpenAI had about ChatGPT's ability to "see". I tried to understand what to do with it, I even asked around, and to this day I haven't found any real use. It's crazy technology, but not useful.
The voice capability, on the other hand, is useful - I found myself talking to it more than once. If it were a bit better I'd probably adopt it more.
And I can go on with plenty more examples. How many of you went back to ChatGPT's image generation after the initial excitement over Disney-style images of yourselves and celebrities faded?
How many of you use, in your daily lives, the ability to hear a podcast that narrates a boring document to you with Google NotebookLM? Do you really feel the difference when using a Custom GPT? Do you use them at all? Or deep analysis of a topic? Or agents that browse the web for you?
So here's an idea:
Instead of getting automatically excited, let's measure every new tool on a simple scale:
Useless-house ← there is use
That is, not what it can do, but what it can do *for me*.
If it doesn't save time, doesn't make work easier, and doesn't solve a pain - it may be cool, but it's still a "useless-house" (a Hebrew pun on "bathroom/use-house", "bet shimush", meaning toilet). (Without belittling the unprecedented and revolutionary technological capability, which deserves its due respect.)
So what's the latest feature in all the AI innovations that was truly useful to you?
