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by LargeWu 706 days ago
It's not so much that communicating in English is the problem, at least for me. I'm a native English speaker and have a reasonably strong command of the English language. I'm able to craft my words to convey specific tone or meaning.

The problem is that GenAI is a complete black box with nondeterministic outputs. I can write code and I know with a very high degree of confidence what I expect it to do. Asking an LLM or a generative image program for something, I have no idea what it'll give me. It gives no feedback other than results, which may or may not be what I want. If not, I have to reverse engineer what I think it might want me to say in order to get desired results. And the same query placed another time might give a completely different answer. I don't deny that it can do some impressive things given the correct inputs, but I am not inclined to spend my time searching for the magic words.