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by tivert 786 days ago
> The core tool being offered here is allowing experts to focus more on checking work than solving work.

That sounds like a nightmare, not an improvement. Really, think about it. It's the same shit as "self driving" cars that need continuous human monitoring. You're taking an relatively engaging task and replacing it with a mind-numbing slog that humans are particularly bad at.

Not to mention the skill of being able to "check work" usually flows from deep experience of "doing work."

> It's way faster to check if a Sudoku puzzle is correct than it is to solve the Sudoku puzzle.

Yeah, and which of those tasks do humans choose to do? I don't see many "100 Solved Sudoku Puzzles To Check" books in the bookstore.
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RhodesianHunter 786 days ago
/Not to mention the skill of being able to "check work" usually flows from deep experience of "doing work."

Precisely, but you need far fewer of these people, which is why this is being so heavily pushed.

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tivert 786 days ago
>> Not to mention the skill of being able to "check work" usually flows from deep experience of "doing work."

> Precisely, but you need far fewer of these people, which is why this is being so heavily pushed.

That sounds like extremely specious reasoning to me, probably due to working backward from technology to application in order to hype the former.

Firstly, is it's anyone experience that it's easier to understand an unreliable system that was barfed out of some unreliable process (doesn't have to be an LLM, could be a bad offshore team), than it is to try to build it right from the start? It's still garbage out. It's like abusing the QA process by saying quality is only their job, then carelessly pumping out crap work and expecting them to catch all the mistakes.

Secondly, where are these "fewer" skilled people supposed to come from? The technology, if embraced this way, will have the effect of cutting off the the skils pipeline. That would work in the short/medium term, but in a generation when you start to see lots of retirements, you'll hit a skills dead end.

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RhodesianHunter 783 days ago
>The technology, if embraced this way, will have the effect of cutting off the the skils pipeline. That would work in the short/medium term, but in a generation when you start to see lots of retirements, you'll hit a skills dead end.

When have corporations ever cared about the next generation, let alone anything beyond the current quarter?

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