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by TeMPOraL 62 days ago
Maybe this is what's missing in the prompt? We've learned years ago to tell the AI they're the expert principal 100x software developer ninja, but maybe we should also honestly disclose our own level of expertise in the task.

A simple "I'm a professional surgeon, but sadly know nothing about making software" would definitely make the conversation play out differently. How? Needs to be seen. But in an idealized scenario (which could easily become real if models are trained for it), the model would coach the (self-stated) non-expert users on the topics it would ordinarily assume the (implicitly self-stated) expert already knows.

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this is more on the lines of the marketing play that "developers are out of job" or "oh i created an app overnight", well sure you did but you also put yourself at a lot of risk, a lot of ai tools are just so risky at times, i'm tbh surprised why claude still asks for api keys to be provided in terminal. you could almost bet that the devs building it 100% know they should not do it, but there's always a way you can brainstorm with the ai, crosscheck with stackoverflow, reddit or anything like you did earlier. this is no substitute for the way programming worked, just a 100% faster and efficient engine for sure. it's such an under-explored area that there's def more eyes needed on it