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by TonyAlicea10 12 days ago
I don't think this is equivalent. The calculator won't occasionally hallucinate a wrong answer. LLMs are a far leakier abstraction which means skill atrophy impacts evaluation and verification ability.
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They're not an abstraction at all until we're committing prompts instead of code.
We might as well be committing prompts given how little review happens to much of this code.
But many people are doing just that, automating workflows through prompt templates and skills.