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Getting a bit philosophical, I believe that the problem of 'defining a problem completely' is where the practical application of 'how then should we live?' gets
by suoduandao3 3y ago
Getting a bit philosophical, I believe that the problem of 'defining a problem completely' is where the practical application of 'how then should we live?' gets self-referential. Startups spend inordinate amounts of time and money trying to figure out their customers' problems, drilling down, pivoting, etc. It's the challenge of silicon valley.
And the more one increases the search space the more primary that question of defining the problem becomes. Whether the execution is handled by chatGPT or a human coder, it looks to me like defining the problem we want to solve is the majority of our current frontier.
- marcus_holmes 3y agoI think that's two different, but related problems. "what should we build?" is a different problem from "what do you think we should be building?" - the first is a customer discovery problem (what do our customers think they need?), the second is a communication problem (what does our manager want us to build?). The related bit is that humans are bad at communicating and we need to spend a lot of effort deciphering ambiguous human waffle into precise program code.