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95 points by borski 7mo ago|41 comments
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by borski 7mo ago
Writing well is a superpower, and even better in a world where “no one” is writing well. LLMs write poorly because most people write poorly. They didn’t cause it, they simply emulate it.
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by borski 7mo ago
This is the best I’ve ever heard this put.
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by borski 7mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395779
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by borski 7mo ago
Thank you for saying this. It’s hard, but I’ve learned it’s a lot better to approach new information (and thus, articles) with curiosity, rather than skepticism.
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by borski 7mo ago
They know their market. :)
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by borski 7mo ago
You’re right that time will tell the end story.
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by borski 7mo ago
I’m aware of how long ago late 2025 was. Anthropic’s revenue in Q1 2026 has skyrocketed.
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by borski 7mo ago
Late last year is not the timeline you want. Anthropic’s hockey stick happened earlier this year.
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by borski 7mo ago
That is, in fact, what the law says and what the courts have agreed with multiple times.
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by borski 7mo ago
> And a horse breeder was important to transportation until the 1920s, but it doesn't mean their job was transportation. They didn't magically become great truck drivers. Again: unrelated and pointless analogy. The horse breede
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by borski 7mo ago
Fair enough; I can see the exaggeration. It is not impossible, however, that an LLM could run enough “random” tests to find new ways of doing something, but I hear you. Let me restate that to “An LLM can build most anything…” and I stand by
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by borski 7mo ago
> If our blank page is first filled by the mediocritizer machine, are the ideas even ours? If the prompt were “write anything, go”, then sure. But that is not at all what I’m talking about, and is a strawman. Your link is a 404, btw.
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by borski 7mo ago
Yeah, this is precisely what I meant.
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by borski 7mo ago
> Is that why most prestigious jobs grilled you like a devil on algos/system design? No. That’s because interviews have always sucked, and have always been terrible predictors of how you do on the job. We just never had a better way
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by borski 7mo ago
Precisely.
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by borski 7mo ago
> Just 'being human' (and thus empathizing) may not be such a big part of the job as you seem to believe. The word “just” is not in my comment anywhere. Being human is necessary, but not sufficient. And no, you cannot train an
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by borski 7mo ago
I never said great engineers didn’t write code. But writing the code was never the point. The point has always been delivering the product to the customer, in any industry. Code is rarely the deliverable. That’s my point.
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by borski 7mo ago
Yeah, I agree with all of that. A friend built an “emotion aware” coach, and it is extremely useful to both of us. But he still sees a therapist, regularly, because they are not the same and do not serve the same purpose. :)
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by borski 7mo ago
I never said therapists were only for those in crisis; that is a misreading of my argument entirely. An LLM cannot parse the complexity of your situation. Period. It is literally incapable of doing that, because it does not have any idea wh
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by borski 7mo ago
Please, please, please don’t make this mistake. It is not a therapist. At best, it might be a facsimile of a life coach, but it does not have your best interests in mind. It is easy to convince and trivial to make obsequious. That is not wh
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by borski 7mo ago
Yes, for building something But for building the right thing ? Doubtful. Most of a great engineer’s work isn’t writing code, but interrogating what people think their problems are, to find what the actual problems are. In short: proble
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by borski 7mo ago
LLMs can build anything. The real question is what is worth building, and how it’s delivered. That is what is still human. LLMs, by nature of not being human, cannot understand humans as well as other humans can. (See every attempt at using
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by borski 7mo ago
Came here to say this. The right solution to this is still the same as it always was - teach the juniors what good code looks like, and how to write it. Over time, they will learn to clean up the LLM’s messes on their own, improving both jo
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by borski 7mo ago
Someone bedridden is not the focus of the article or conversation; once you are no longer capable of being active, it is obviously true that you’ll partake in more sedentary activities.
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by borski 7mo ago
Except that doomscrolling causes aged folks to deteriorate in health faster than being active in some way, just like for everyone else. If it were simply that they weee living their own lives, I don’t think anybody would take issue with t
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by borski 7mo ago
Exactly I couldn’t have said it better myself.
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by borski 7mo ago
That’s great! I just want to be clear - it’s not “reliance.” It is a tool, and I find it helpful. I managed my entire life without it, and I can certainly continue to do that. But there’s no reason, imho, to give up the automatic transmissi
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by borski 7mo ago
Neat! Similar to how I use it, but I find looking for the right word to be a lot of mental fun, so I don’t use it for that purpose as much. But yeah, “pair programmer for writing” is exactly right.
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by borski 7mo ago
> 100% you have been, you just didn't understand nor send the wrong message. Sure, there are thousands of messages I can come up with that would be immediately fireable; but that’s true anywhere , not just in corporate life, and is

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