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by natsucks 10 days ago
More and more the skill of being able to ask the right question seems critical to me, and I don't know how one can do that without deeper and deeper domain expertise.
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Asking the right questions has almost always been one of if not the most important skills. There are often an almost infinite list of possible approaches, but knowing the domain, you can get close to optimum very quickly. If you just rely on the LLM, it will give you the most common bog standard approach, including the usual bugs and usual quirks.
Yes, but sometimes the right question is "do I know enough about this subject to be asking questions about it?"
Succinctly put by Pablo Picasso's remark: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers".