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Re: The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'

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Post by schneems » Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 2:28 PM UTC

MichaelZuo wrote: post #67

daveguy wrote: post #51

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> Many people these days don’t even bother to write questions. They write statements and expect you to infer the question from the statement. This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Not even asking for help just stating a complaint.

Well it seems like an easy way to filter them into the ignore pile…

I can’t ignore customer support tickets.

Usually the most frantic and urgent tickets are the ones that also provide the least info too. Which is frustrating as it usually adds some extra back and forth which means it ultimately takes longer to resolve their tickets.

There is also generally a correlation to spend and question quality.

Re: The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'

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Post by BlueTemplar » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 6:12 PM UTC

alganet wrote: post #72

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #70

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Appreciate the balanced take. An improvement to a technology can be good, or it can be harmful - and beyond a certain point, further amplification can destroy society and the commons which we all benefit from. Coca leaves are a relatively benign part of daily life in Peru & a few other surrounding countries - they’re on the table in your hotel lobby, ready to be stirred into your tea. But cocaine - same base but made…

You are right in the sense that addiction and overuse are common concerns regarding new technologies. Similar concerns existed for the TV and video-games, for example. The idea of a balance works if you put the problem on a spectrum. "Too much, then it's bad" is a general good advice for anything. In high school, I started learning geometry. I was puzzled by the angles in the exercises always being 30, 60, 90, 120 (n…

Hmm... maybe because these notable angles are also those of which the associated trigonometric values are round(ish), and so it's about first learning those by heart ? (Like you learn the multiplication table by heart before doing multi-digit multiplications.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unit_circle_angles_colo...

Re: The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'

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Post by trollbridge » Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 7:11 PM UTC

bluefirebrand wrote: post #44

trollbridge wrote: post #9

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I’m finding the same usage of LLMs in terms of what actually I use them for day to day. When I need to look up arcane information, an LLM generally does better than a Google search.

How do you verify the accuracy of "arcane information" produced by an LLM? "Arcane Information" is absolutely the worst possible use case I can imagine for LLMs right now. You might as well ask an intern to just make something up

I check the sources. Usually this is documentation for some package I’ve never used before.

I will also admit to using LLMs to create unit tests, and then building a test suite to test this unit tests.