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by slyzmud 4 days ago
I don't think that's a good analysis.

If the LLM is wrong and gives you a wrong medical diagnosis you end up hurting your health. If an LLM gives you a wrong debugging answer you've just lost 5 minutes.

Software engineering is the only knowledge work where mistakes are usually inexpensive except for data breaches. Outside for that nobody cares for bugs.

That's not true in most other knowledge jobs. If a lawyer uses AI and hallucinates something there is a legal problem. If someone vibecodes an app and crashes, it can be fixed with more AI and try again

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That’s my point though? Debugging a 5-minute problem is in the shallow end of the spectrum, the real complexity sits where they lean on their domain experience. Finance and payments software mistakes can absolutely be expensive.