> If you have a revolutionary intelligence product, why is it not working for me?
Is programming itself revolutionary? Yes. Does it work for most people? I don't even know how to parse that question, most people aren't programmers and need to spend a lot of effort to be able to harness a tool like programming. Especially in the early days of software dev, when programming was much harder.
Your position of "I'll only trust things I see with my own eyes" is not a very good one, IMO. I mean, for sure the internet is full of hype and tricksters, but your comment yesterday was on a Tweet by Steve Yegge, a famous and influential software developer and software blogger, who some of us have been reading for twenty years and has taught us tons.
He's not a trickster, not a fraud, and if he says "this technology is actually useful for me, in practice" then I believe he has definitely found an actual use of the technology. Whether I can find a similar use for that technology is a question - it's not always immediate. He might be working in a different field, with different constraints, etc. But most likely, he's just doing something he's learned how to do and I don't, meaning I want to learn it.
Is programming itself revolutionary? Yes. Does it work for most people? I don't even know how to parse that question, most people aren't programmers and need to spend a lot of effort to be able to harness a tool like programming. Especially in the early days of software dev, when programming was much harder.
Your position of "I'll only trust things I see with my own eyes" is not a very good one, IMO. I mean, for sure the internet is full of hype and tricksters, but your comment yesterday was on a Tweet by Steve Yegge, a famous and influential software developer and software blogger, who some of us have been reading for twenty years and has taught us tons.
He's not a trickster, not a fraud, and if he says "this technology is actually useful for me, in practice" then I believe he has definitely found an actual use of the technology. Whether I can find a similar use for that technology is a question - it's not always immediate. He might be working in a different field, with different constraints, etc. But most likely, he's just doing something he's learned how to do and I don't, meaning I want to learn it.