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My buddy told me to stop trying to write my own AI code for a roofing estimate tool
He said 'just use the API from OpenAI, you're wasting a whole month' and I thought he was wrong. I spent three weeks trying to build a model from scratch to guess material costs from pictures of roofs. It never got past 60% right. Last Friday I tried the GPT-4 Vision API like he said, and in two hours I had a working demo that was over 90% accurate on my test photos. I feel like an idiot for not listening sooner. Has anyone else tried to build something custom when a ready-made AI tool would have done the job better?
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dylan_patel1d agoOG Member
See this everywhere now. People will spend weeks building a custom thing when a simple tool already does it. I mean, I get wanting to learn, but sometimes you just need the job done.
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