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honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again. embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion pa
by webdevver 9mo ago
honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again.
embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion parameters - if anything, you could say LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. without LLMs, we might be facing a world where 30% of the workforce is in software dev.
i am keeping my eyes peeled on vibe-coding PCB layouts and schematics. a lot of eyes in that direction already but its still early.
- necrotic_comp 9mo agoI agree with this. I've been able to tackle projects I've been wanting to for ages with LLMs because they let me focus on abstractions first and get over the friction of starting the project. Once I get my footing, I can use them to generate more and more specialized code and ultimately get to a place where the code is good.
- mhog_hn 9mo ago“LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization” - well said!
- CrossVR 9mo agoFinally we can get rid of those insufferable nerds. /s
- groestl 9mo agoOn a meta level, seems this trajectory follows Alan Kay: first we made the complex things possible, now we make simple things simple.
- acedTrex 9mo ago> LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra-specialization. This is fundamentally what makes them so DAMAGING to humanity. They didn't bail us out, they robbed us of it.
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- HPsquared 9mo agoSpecialization is for insects, as Heinlein said. We are going back to the Renaissance Man ideal and I'm all for it.
- Palomides 9mo agoisn't it exactly the opposite? LLMs have killed the generalist, only specialists with very targeted skills have anything marketable
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- CuriouslyC 9mo ago100% the opposite. LLMs lack high level creativity, wisdom and taste. Being a generalist is how you build these. For example, there's a common core to music, art, food, writing, etc that you don't see until you've gotten good at 3+ aesthetic fields. There are common patterns in different academic disciplines and activities that can supercharge your priors and help you make better decisions. LLMs can "see" these these connections if explicitly prompted with domains and details, but they don't seem to reason with them in mind or lean on them by default. On the other hand, LLMs are being aggressively RL'd by the top 10% of various fields, so single field expertise by some of the best in the world is 100% baked in and the default.
- ori_b 9mo agoI don't get it. What part of the process do you enjoy? Do you also enjoy hiring a taskrabbit to go hiking for you, taking photos along the way?
- mentos 9mo agoI’m just looking to make pizza not smelt the ore for the oven I’m going to cook it in.
- ori_b 9mo agoWhy make pizza when you can order it? As far as I can tell, there's not much enjoyment of making being had. Enjoying having is fine too, but let's at least be honest about it. I enjoy looking at photos people took on hikes, but I don't call it hiking.
- mentos 9mo agoIs it hiking if I bought my boots on amazon?
- ori_b 9mo agoNot if you sit at home wearing boots and looking at photos of mountains. If you want to have boots, that's cool. But is replacing walking with ordering boots and photos making hiking fun again? Or were you only interested in the photos anyway? What part of the process of hiking do you enjoy? And why is it so hard to hear what part of the process of programming people enjoy?
- llmslave2 9mo agoWhat is fun? Prompting?