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If "the level of awareness that created a problem, cannot be used to fix the problem", then you're asking too much if you expect a human to reason about an LLM
by leptons 7mo ago
If "the level of awareness that created a problem, cannot be used to fix the problem", then you're asking too much if you expect a human to reason about an LLM output when they are the ones that asked an LLM to do the thinking for them to begin with.
- thwarted 7mo agoThis feels like a rediscovering/rewording of Kernighan's Law: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." ~ Brian Kernighan
- leptons 7mo agoIt's an old saying, I think Einstein is cited most often for it... something like this according to Google: "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
- Uhhrrr 7mo agoIn this case you would replace the human.
- leptons 7mo agoYes, I'd fire them, and then hire a more competent human. I'm pretty happy with the team I've built. They make solid decisions that I can trust every time. I can't say the same for the LLM.