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SalientBlue | 4 months ago

>But it's a different we already know

'we' is the operative word here. 'We', meaning technical people who have followed this stuff for years. The target audience of this article are not part of this 'we' and this stuff IS completely new _for them_. The target audience are people who, when confronted with a problem with an LLM, think it is perfectly reasonable to just tell someone to 'look at the code' and 'fix the bug'. You are not the target audience and you are arguing something entirely different.

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alganet|4 months ago

Let's pretend I'm the audience, and imagine that in the past I said those things ("fix the bug" and "look at the code").

What should I say now? "AI works in mysterious ways"? Doesn't sound very useful.

Also, should I start parroting innacurate outdated generalizations about regular software?

The post doesn't teach anything useful for a beginner audience. It's bamboozling them. I am amazed that you used the audience perspective as a defense of some kind. It only made it worse.

Please, please, take a moment to digest my critique properly. Think about what you just said and what that implies. Re-read the thread if needed.