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> One could say, "This didn't age well." It has aged well, particularly because Randall explains that LLMs have made this even worse. His main point is this (
by the_af 2y ago
> One could say, "This didn't age well."
It has aged well, particularly because Randall explains that LLMs have made this even worse.
His main point is this (I'm quoting him):
The key idea still very much stands though. Understanding the difference between easy and hard challenges in software development continues to require an enormous depth of experience.
I'd argue that LLMs have made this even worse.
Understanding what kind of tasks LLMs can and cannot reliably solve remains incredibly difficult and unintuitive.
- albedoa 2y agoThose quotes are not by Randall. They are by Simon.
- Eisenstein 2y agoYou are quoting Simon Wilson (his blog) not Randall Munroe.
- the_af 2y agoAh, thanks. I had a brain fart and missed this. But still, the point of the original xkcd wasn't "computer vision" right? As the caption explains, "in CS, it can be hard to explain the difference between the easy and the virtually impossible". The only thing that hasn't aged well is the difficulty of identifying birds in photos. The adage remains valid in general.