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aocallaghan17

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About aocallaghan17

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    Comment #48545127

    The models are the moat. It's why you have generous subscription usage plans and increasingly limited third party access.

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    Comment #48528308

    Reminds me of this article: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-ba... Software engineers are definitely in a bit of a bubble here. Are we just early adopters …

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    Comment #48520841

    Yeah I mean this is closer to my use of LLMs, where I'm intentionally slowing things down enough to follow and course correct myself. This whole build the loop not the prompt idea …

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    Comment #48520816

    I'm just struggling with this, surely you need inner depth knowledge to reason about the system and make some level of decision, at least around system design and architecture if n…

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    Comment #48519413

    Seems like it. Perhaps the use case is for non-engineering folks to share AI generated prototypes? We're starting to get asked by product managers how they can share/deploy their p…

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    Comment #48517323

    Agree with this completely. This push for more autonomy I think is the complete wrong direction for how to use LLMs. I want less code to maintain not more that I don't even fully u…

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    Comment #48515688

    I just don't see any way you can work like this and maintain comprehension of the system being built? Perhaps for toy projects or research, but for a production system you're accou…

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    Comment #48515639

    Agreed, and if automating the creation just creates more of these issues, faster than we can solve them, is it actually making us more productive?

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    Comment #48514922

    The huge investment into LLMs at a loss is about having control of these tools and technology. Now we're seeing a state try to take some control. But who do you trust more to make …