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by IanCal 101 days ago
Do you want to eat good food or make good food? Is doing the dishes something you hand to a machine or do you always do it by hand? Are there any ingredients you buy pre-made (pesto, curry pastes, do you make your own panko breadcrumbs)?
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bluefirebrand 101 days ago
My point, which you seem to have missed, is that people have an intrinsic incentive to care about learning to cook because eating is something we have to do every single day regardless

No such incentive exists for building software

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IanCal 101 days ago
No such incentive exists for an enormous amount of what humans do.

People don’t only build software because they have to.

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bluefirebrand 101 days ago
I wasn't saying otherwise, I was only making the point that cooking is a terrible counter example
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apsurd 101 days ago
Aren't you proving the point that it's nuanced?

Thread seems to be saying LLMs are great because they do the dirty work and leave the fun work to humans. The counter-point is not exactly that LLMs aren't capable of doing dirty-work, it's that the nature of work isn't going to split so cleanly.

And cooking is a good example. Cooking is work. And slop. And it's also incredibly rewarding and creative, if you want it to be. Robots can help along that entire journey.

Maybe this is the core point: "cooking is a solved problem" that's how engineers always think. Except it's not. And 100% automation is still not going to break that discussion so cleanly.

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IanCal 101 days ago
The comment I was responding to was looking at a state where we looked at markdown files instead of programming, my point was to agree with the original quote that they can remove the drudgery.

> Maybe this is the core point: "cooking is a solved problem" that's how engineers always think.

But it isn’t, that’s a lazy stereotype of a subset.

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apsurd 101 days ago
Gotcha. the engineer generalization was to plant a stake in the ground. I do hear that quite often, especially from higher titled engineers. in any case, definitely admit it's not all of them, and perhaps it's even a vocal minority that i'm better served to intentionally work to expand my influences.
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