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Only it’s a bit like me getting back into cooking because I described the dish I want to a trainee cook.
by beaker52 9mo ago
Only it’s a bit like me getting back into cooking because I described the dish I want to a trainee cook.
- CuriouslyC 9mo agoThe head chefs at most restaurants delegate the majority of details of dishes to their kitchen staff, then critique and refine.
- elliotbnvl 9mo agoAs long as you get the dish you want when before you couldn’t have it — who cares?
- beaker52 9mo agoSure, as long as you don’t expect me to digest it, live with it, and crap it out for you, I see no problem with it.
- elliotbnvl 9mo agoMy expectations don’t change whether or not I’m using AI, and neither do my standards. Whether or not you use my software is up to you.
- peteforde 9mo agoSo you're saying that if you go to any famous restaurant and the famous face of the restaurant isn't personally preparing your dinner with their hands and singular attention, you are disappointed. Got it.
- maplethorpe 9mo agoIsn't that still considered cooking? If I describe the dish I want, and someone else makes it for me, I was still the catalyst for that dish. It would not have existed without me. So yes, I did cook it.
- krapp 9mo ago> If I describe the dish I want, and someone else makes it for me, I was still the catalyst for that dish. It would not have existed without me. So yes, I did "cook" it. The person who actually cooked it cooked it. Being the "catalyst" doesn't make you the creator, nor does it mean you get to claim that you did the work. Otherwise you could say you "cooked a meal" every time you went to MacDonald's.
- elliotbnvl 9mo agoWhy is the head chef called the head chef, then? He doesn’t “cook”.
- beaker52 9mo agoThe difference is that the head chef can cook very well and could do a better job of the dish than the trainee.
- 9rx 9mo agoTo differentiate him from the "cook", which is what we call those who carry out the actual act of cooking.
- elliotbnvl 9mo agoWell, don’t go around calling me a compiler!
- 9rx 9mo agoIf that's what you do, then the name is perfectly apt. Why shy away from what you are?
- krapp 9mo ago"head chef" is a managerial position but yes often they can and do cook.
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- 9rx 9mo agoFlipping toggle switches went out of fashion many, many, many years ago. We've been describing to trainees (compilers) the dish we want for longer than most on HN have been alive.
- beaker52 9mo agoActually, we’ve been formally declaring the logic of programs to compilers, which is something very different.
- 9rx 9mo agoThe only difference is that newer languages have figured out how to remove a lot of the boilerplate.
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- beaker52 9mo ago(Replying to myself because hn) That’s not the only difference at all. A good use of an LLM might be to ask it what the difference between using an LLM and writing code for a compiler is.
- 9rx 9mo agoEqually a good use for a legacy compiler that compiles a legacy language. Granted, you are going to have to write a lot more boilerplate to see it function (that being the difference, after all), but the outcome will be the same either way. It's all just 1s and 0s at the end of the day.
- beaker52 9mo agoSorry friend, if you can’t identify the important differences between a compiler and an LLM, either intentionally or unintentionally (I can’t tell), then I must question the value of whatever you have to say on the topic.
- simonw 9mo agoDepends on how you're using the LLMs. It can also be like having someone else around to chop the onions, wash the pans and find the ingredients when you need them.
- peteforde 9mo agoThis approach seems to have worked out for both Warhol and Chihuly.
- esafak 9mo agoAre you even cooking if you did not collect your own ingredients and forge your own tools??