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by graemep 355 days ago
its really not that different.

"f you assume that this technology will implement your project perfectly without you needing to exercise any of your own skill you’ll quickly be disappointed."

"They’ll absolutely make mistakes—sometimes subtle, sometimes huge. These mistakes can be deeply inhuman—if a human collaborator hallucinated a non-existent library or method you would instantly lose trust in them"

"Once I’ve completed the initial research I change modes dramatically. For production code my LLM usage is much more authoritarian: I treat it like a digital intern, hired to type code for me based on my detailed instructions."

"I got lucky with this example because it helped illustrate my final point: expect to need to take over. LLMs are no replacement for human intuition and experience. "