LLMs can't be strategic because they do not understand the big picture -- that the real work of good software is balancing a hundred different constraints in a way that produces the optimal result for the humans who use it. It's not all that different from the state of big corp software today! Large organizations with layers of management tend to lose all abiliy to keep a consistent strategy. They tend to go all in o…
>LLMs can't be strategic because they do not understand the big picture While I do tend to believe you, what evidence based data do you have to prove this is true?
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Re: Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself
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Can an LLM give you an upfront estimate that a task will take multiple months? Can it decide intelligently what it would have to change if you said "do what you can to have it ready in half the time?"
>Can an LLM give you an upfront estimate that a task will take multiple months? >Can it decide intelligently what it would have to change if you said "do what you can to have it ready in half the time?" Do you think ChatGPT 5.2 Pro can't estimate how long a task might take? Do you think that estimate would necessarily be worse than the estimates, which are notoriously poor, coming from human engineers? But you can st…
Re: Greg Knauss Is Losing Himself
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>LLMs can't be strategic because they do not understand the big picture While I do tend to believe you, what evidence based data do you have to prove this is true?
Prompt-injection in all its forms. If the hyper-mad-libs machine doesn't reliably "understand" and model the difference between internal and external words, how can we trust them to model fancier stuff?