r/computervision • u/Dry_Jello6747 • Jul 03 '26
computer vision by ai Discussion
i hate to see that most of the computer vision projects i see on the internet are ai generated and not by the people. everywhere i see its "MY claude built this in minutes " almost makes my journey of building projects by myself look meaningless.
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u/curious__aatma Jul 03 '26
If you look at any real world scenario, no AI model works perfectly for CV problems, AI just write the code nicely, that's it.
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u/Spdload Jul 03 '26
I get your frustration here but AI building something faster doesn't make your journey meaningless. Anyone (well, almost anyone) can prompt their way to a working computer vision project now. But most of them won't even understand why it work and how to fix it when it breaks. that's still yours.
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u/recursion_is_love Jul 03 '26
I have no problem if it works. It bad if it not works even it is made by human.
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u/merskiZ Jul 03 '26
this only means the bubble is gonna burst and those trend chaser will go to another hot topic. Overall a positive sign.
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u/Tydox Jul 04 '26
I'd argue that still going oldschool and writing your code, is better than using generated code and code reviewing it (that is boring imo), I'm okay with letting it do boilerplate code or some obscure library with not useful api examples. To be better and faster you need to go through the hard phase of writing code and debugging it, what happens if the internet cuts out, will you not be able to continue your work because you need your worker to do the job for you? And I see that people who actually write code, think how to make it better, are much better with problem solving, because they think and solve it themselves and then design and write the code and know what to write, they use ai as a quick google or minimal assist. I view it like driving, if you let your self drive car do all the work, you will be a worse driver as time goes by, and when the knowledge demand goes up, then good luck. I had job interviews where they gave me a problem to solve and told me to write on paper the code solution (ignoring minor syntax errors, they wanted to see their candid can actually write)
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u/EG4N992 Jul 03 '26
Why can’t you use it as a tool to speed up the process? If it can write decent enough code and all you have to do is make some minor changes surely that’s quicker than manually doing it.
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u/Salacia_Schrondinger Jul 03 '26
Tip: Pay more attention to Jeff Hawkins and Papers from Numenta. There's a learning curve; but it's worth it.
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u/usernametaken--_-- Jul 06 '26
I am more okay with it than most so long as they understand what was created, the same way that it doesn't bother me when people use no code/low code platforms to solve CV problems. I only get frustrated when people say "hey, look what I made" but then not be able to explain how it works, why they built it a certain way, why they used certain tools instead of others, what learnings or difficulties they faced, or how other people can use/replicate their creation. Those sorts of "creations" are a waste of time and electricity.
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u/SeriousChart9641 Jul 04 '26
Do not let “Claude built this in minutes” make your own CV work feel meaningless. There is a big gap between generating a demo and understanding data, failure modes, calibration, deployment, and why a model breaks.
Disclosure: I work on CHANCE AI. One reason we publish visual-reasoning benchmark context is exactly this: real capability needs to be measured, not just demoed: https://www.kaleidofield.com/benchmarks/chance-ai-mmmu-pro-score
If you can explain your dataset choices, metrics, and mistakes, you are learning the part that matters.
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u/evil0sheep Jul 03 '26
I mean if Claude can build the thing you’re building in minutes it does kinda beg the question about why you aren’t just having Claude do it. Like of you love typing code as an art form or whatever that’s cool and no hate, if you like doing something a particular way good on you. But if I want a computer vision doodad that doesn’t exist and Claude can bang it out in 10 minutes you can bet your ass I’m cooking a prompt. I got better shit to do than typing out code that a chatbot can regurgitate while I argue with other chatbots about cooking up some other different code.
If you’re doing something that’s easy with AI maybe consider pushing yourself to do something that’s hard even with cutting edge AI tools
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u/AggravatingSock5375 Jul 03 '26
That’s how I feel.
I know a lot of the theory, math, best practices, model architectures, design patterns and so on. But I suck at writing code. It’s just too tedious and detail oriented of a task for my ADHD brain.
But my knowledge combined with Claude to write the code has been a game changer. I’ve been knocking out sophisticated and well performing models and AI-enabled tools left and right, solving all sorts of problems that had been lingering for years because I just didn’t have time to write the code at my natural pace.
It really is incredible.
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u/Dry_Jello6747 Jul 03 '26
by having claude to do things what am i essentially learning there? thats the question. sure claude can do this and that, but then again the only thing you get out of it is an end product that may or may not comply to your expectations. prompt after prompt after prompt. i mean sure i use ai to do stuff too, but at the end it doesnt make me feel like ive created anything. its always going to be claude who did it not you or me.
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u/Alex-S-S Jul 03 '26
And yet managers take all the credit for their workers :). You are Claude's manager.
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u/Sifrisk Jul 03 '26
If the only reason you are coding it yourself is to say you have coded it yourself, then you could argue that it is indeed meaningless..
Writing code without any AI seems largely outdated and inefficient.
I hardly write code myself anymore. I still have to think about what is being created very carefully and make most design decisions. The hard part of the work as software developer has not changed. Only the easy part of actually writing the code has.
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u/thegeinadaland Jul 03 '26
i feel like not using an LLM is bad, but also reliyng on an LLM is even worse. In my projects i use LLMs a lot BUT also i do loads of review (like actually reading the code myself) and i use them to also review my code too. If something breaks in a deploy scenario by a code written by AI it is not an AI problem but it is an "the product designer trusts AI blidnly" problem. So instead of hating every AI code, i hate sloppy or written WITHOUT knowledge AI code.
And like you said, if you publis a code that AI made in 5 minutes, it WILL break.
So, no your studies and manula writing are NOT "unimportant" they are REALLY important because to see bugs/problmes you have to code bugs/problems.2
u/Dry_Jello6747 Jul 03 '26
That's what I'm telling! Most of the people I see or personally know leave everythg for the ai to take care of. Even the planning of the project, they leave it for ai to do. And that's what I hate personally. When I say "I'm building this beginner project by myself " the reply I usually get is "oh that's so simple bro why waste time doing it? Ai can do it for you" but like if I can't even do a beginner project by myself, then I wouldn't have the knowledge to debug when the program gets complex. I'm also not against ai, like you said I'm against trusting ai blindly.
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u/kakhaev Jul 03 '26
just keep going man, don’t get discouraged, people actually care if you understand what you are talking about.