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That's such a naive take, the joy of helping the customer ha! That's a situation your employer sets up for you! Try reading your sentence above and swapping i

That's such a naive take, the joy of helping the customer ha! That's a situation your employer sets up for you! Try reading your sentence above and swapping in 'EMPLOYEE': 'These LLMs are like EMPLOYEES. The customer cannot tell the difference between EMPLOYEE painted and LLM generated at even a short distance. '

baq 3mo ago
The customer can absolutely tell the difference between a Caterpillar digger and a dude in it vs 100 dudes with shovels
- encyclopedism 3mo ago
  Attempting to illustrate why your analogy is flawed and explain myself a little better I would add that there are quantitive things and qualitative things. If the object was to remove some volume of earth (quantitive) then whether it is moved by a Caterpillar or by 100 men with shovels does not matter. If you're 'no longer looking at the code' or 'looping everything' then you are implicitly moving towards a more quantitive outlook of software development. How it does so becomes less and less meaningful and why would you even care?
  - baq 3mo ago
    I'm saying I'd rather have a dude in a digger than a hundred folks who need to be supplied, some of them drunk, some of them thieves, some of them just plain bad at digging and only making a mess of the dig site.
    - claudiulodro 3mo ago
      In this metaphor, your dude in a digger could also be drunk or a thief or bad at his job, and that'd be a bigger problem vs. a few people from a 100 person hand crew.
      - baq 3mo ago
        This is true, but my priors say it’s much less likely to get a thief or a drunk in a digger than in a group of a hundred folks with shovels.
bob1029 3mo ago
> That's a situation your employer sets up for you! Who says you need a boss or other human coworkers? Start your own consultancy and take 100% of the pie. The term "employee" evaporates in this context, as does an entire universe of lazy, negative tropes about work ethic, etc.
- encyclopedism 3mo ago
  > Who says you need a boss or other human coworkers? I didn't. However most people on here and around the world are employed I am merely pointing out that your employer dictates so much of what you do. > Start your own consultancy. Great, but realise then that you are talking about creating a business. Which is a whole other field altogether. You can have a business in software, or in legal, or mining etc. But that's a different conversation. It's about business and not about software or LLM's.

baq 3mo ago

The customer can absolutely tell the difference between a Caterpillar digger and a dude in it vs 100 dudes with shovels

encyclopedism 3mo ago
Attempting to illustrate why your analogy is flawed and explain myself a little better I would add that there are quantitive things and qualitative things. If the object was to remove some volume of earth (quantitive) then whether it is moved by a Caterpillar or by 100 men with shovels does not matter. If you're 'no longer looking at the code' or 'looping everything' then you are implicitly moving towards a more quantitive outlook of software development. How it does so becomes less and less meaningful and why would you even care?
- baq 3mo ago
  I'm saying I'd rather have a dude in a digger than a hundred folks who need to be supplied, some of them drunk, some of them thieves, some of them just plain bad at digging and only making a mess of the dig site.
  - claudiulodro 3mo ago
    In this metaphor, your dude in a digger could also be drunk or a thief or bad at his job, and that'd be a bigger problem vs. a few people from a 100 person hand crew.
    - baq 3mo ago
      This is true, but my priors say it’s much less likely to get a thief or a drunk in a digger than in a group of a hundred folks with shovels.

bob1029 3mo ago

> That's a situation your employer sets up for you! Who says you need a boss or other human coworkers? Start your own consultancy and take 100% of the pie. The term "employee" evaporates in this context, as does an entire universe of lazy, negative tropes about work ethic, etc.

encyclopedism 3mo ago
> Who says you need a boss or other human coworkers? I didn't. However most people on here and around the world are employed I am merely pointing out that your employer dictates so much of what you do. > Start your own consultancy. Great, but realise then that you are talking about creating a business. Which is a whole other field altogether. You can have a business in software, or in legal, or mining etc. But that's a different conversation. It's about business and not about software or LLM's.