[ai4ever]

i dont like to discourage or be a naysayer. but,

dont build a platform for software on something inherently unreliable. if there is one lesson i have learnt, it is that, systems and abstractions are built on interfaces which are reliable and deterministic.

focus on llm usecases where accuracy is not paramount - there are tons of them. ocr, summarization, reporting, recommendations.

[viraptor]

People are already unreliable and non-deterministic. Looking at that aspect, we're not losing anything.

[ben_w]

As a result of human unreliability, we had to invent bureaucracy and qualifications for society at large, and design patterns and automated testing for software engineers in particular.

I have a suspicion that there's a "best design pattern" and "best architecture" for getting the most out of existing LLMs (and some equivalents for non-software usage of LLMs and also non-LLM AI), but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to find out what that is rather than just wait for AI models to get better.

[ai4ever]

people may be unreliable but the software they produce needs to work reliably.

software system is like legos. they form a system of dependencies. each component in the chain has interfaces which other components depend on. 99% reliability doesnt cut it for software components.

[ekianjo]

And that's precisely why we don't use people to do tests and to ensure that things work reliably. We use code instead.

[usrbinbash]

Yes, they are, and that's precisely why we use computers and deterministic code for many tasks instead of people.

[elicksaur]

I really don’t like the denigration of humanity to sell these products. The current state of LLMs is so far away on “reliability” than the average human that these marketing lines are insulting.

It really seems like the tech-bro space hates humans so much that their motivation in working on these products is replacing them to never have to work with a human again.

[atemerev]

> systems and abstractions are built on interfaces which are reliable and deterministic.

Are you sure we live in the same world? The world where there is Crowdstrike and a new zero day every week?

Software engineering is beautifully chaotic, I like it like that.